Crunching numbers to save lives around the world.
Support mathematical modelling at Burnet and help save lives around the world.
Support mathematical modelling at Burnet and help save lives around the world.
Support mathematical modelling at Burnet and help save lives around the world.
Support mathematical modelling at Burnet and help save lives around the world.
Achieving greater equity in maternal and child health particularly in resource-poor and high-risk communities in our region, requires an urgent need to develop and promote new strategies, tools and policies.
Women and children continue to die and suffer significant illness from preventable causes. Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies is a collaborative research program aimed at providing life-saving health care for women and children in Papua New Guinea, where the rate of maternal and child death is staggeringly high. Tragically, more than 5000 babies die in their first year of life.
Burnet is also working with many communities to better understand and address the underlying factors that prevent access to crucial health care services such as family planning, postnatal and newborn care, vaccinations, management of childhood illnesses and nutrition.
Through the Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health program Burnet is committing to making a major contribution to:
Young people are central to ensuring health equity for all, but they experience a large and preventable burden of poor health. Despite sexual and reproductive health and rights being a traditional focus of adolescent programming, there remains much to be done. There is also a need to address issues of emerging importance – particularly poor mental health, non-communicable disease and injury.
We are developing, testing and implementing evidence-based tools and interventions to:
Burnet Executive Team; Co-Program Director, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health; Working Group Head
09 April, 2021
Professor Brendan Crabb AC talks to ABC TV’s Afternoon Briefing about why the Government now prefers the Pfizer vaccine for under 50s.
02 April, 2021
Students from Burnet’s Global Women’s and Newborn’s Health Group picked up two prizes at the Annual Congress of the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand.