News & Events

Congratulations
Congratulations to Professor Kristine Macartney on her appointment as Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS).  In addition to this appointment, Kristine is also Senior Staff Specialist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Professor in Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney and Senior Editor of the Australian Immunisation Handbo...
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  • 09 November 2017
Adding to the list of world firsts in relation to the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, Australian researchers have published the first evidence internationally that HPV vaccine prevents recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP). Children with RRP typically present in the first few years of life with a hoarse voice or difficulty breathing and require multiple surgical treatments to keep the...
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  • 30 October 2015
The number of children admitted to hospitals across Australia with encephalitis decreased significantly over a decade, in part due to the high levels of varicella immunisation since 2006. “ Varicella (chicken pox) associated encephalitis is one of the most common recognised causes of encephalitis in children,”  said  Dr Philip Britton. The number of children admitted to hospitals acr...
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Encephalitis, or swelling of the brain, can kill in hours. Five year-old Behnam Emery deteriorated from a sniffle and a headache at a birthday party on Saturday to intensive care by Monday morning. Behnam was transferred to The Children’s Hospital at Westmead from his local hospital. Fiona and Behnam’s father, Matthew, said goodbye to him as he was being wheeled off to have an MRI, and the nex...
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