CCCH Webinar Series | Rue Wright Memorial Award
The Rue Wright Memorial Award is presented to the Fellow or trainee who best demonstrates excellence of hypothesis, scientific merit and relevance to community child health in an oral presentation. The Award is named in honour of Dr Rue Wright who was a significant founder of The Australian Community Child Health Medical Association (ACHMA). The ACHMA, founded in 1984, was the first Australian association of community child health doctors.
Several candidates for the award will present and a finalist will be chosen by a panel of judges. The chosen presenter receives AUD$1500 and a certificate.
CCCH Webinar Series | Integrated Care to reduce inequities in Child Health | Professor Susan Woolfenden
Professor Sue Woolfenden is the Director of Community Paediatrics at SLHD , and Professor of Community Paediatrics at the University of Sydney. In her clinical, service development and research roles she aims to address child health and health care inequities in Australia and globally working with priority populations. She has experience with working with large collaborative multidisciplinary teams including government, non-government agencies, parents, young people and clinicians using qualitative and quantitative methods. Sue is an investigator on multiple grants with a focus on developing integrated and equitable models of child health care >$13 M funding over the last 5 years, and has 145 peer-reviewed papers. Sue also works with paediatric teams in the Asia Pacific as part of her clinical and research role.
CCCH Webinar Series | An overview of the third edition (2023) of the RCPCH Purple Book, "The Physical Signs of Child Sexual Abuse" | Dr Alice Johnson
Dr Alice Johnson is a Consultant Paediatrician and Head of Department in the Child Protection Unit at Perth Children's Hospital WA. After gaining a degree (MBChB) at Bristol University in the UK, she worked in Neonatology and General Paediatrics in London before moving to Australia and specialising in Forensic Paediatrics. She has worked purely in child protection for 17 years and gained a Masters of Forensic Medicine (Monash University) in 2022. She was elected a Board Member of the Purple Book Update in 2022 and has found it a fascinating and rewarding experience.
CCCH Webinar Series | Paediatric Hubs | Dr Niroshini Kennedy
Dr Niroshini Kennedy is a developmental paediatrician who works at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service and the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. Her clinical work involves the care of Aboriginal children involved with the child protection, out-of-home care and youth justice systems. Prior to this, she worked in tertiary forensic/ child protection paediatrics. Dr Kennedy was awarded the 2018 Jack Brockhoff Foundation Churchill Fellowship and travelled to the USA, Canada and New Zealand to investigate models of integrated care to improve the health of Aboriginal children in statutory care. She was awarded a 2021-22 Policy Impact Program Fellowship to develop recommendations for policy reform based on her Fellowship findings. Dr Kennedy is President-Elect of the PCHD of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and a Council member of Victoria’s Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity
