Infections in Pregnancy

The Infections in Pregnancy team is a research group in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, based at the Monash Children’s Hospital, and the Monash Centre for Health Care Research and Implementation (MCHRI).

Our mission is to reduce infections and antibiotic use in children through prevention strategies in hospitals and the community. A key focus area is improving our use of new and existing vaccines in Australia and internationally.

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Research streams

We conduct surveillance for vaccine preventable infections in children in hospital and the community, and research the impact of potentially vaccine preventable infections upon children and families. We perform vaccine trials in children and during pregnancy and study immunity to infections.
We conduct vaccine safety surveillance for all Victorian’s and develop better ways of detecting vaccine safety concerns as fast as possible. We host (through MCHRI) the WHO Global Vaccine Safety Observatory, a resource for WHO member countries to track their progress and access resources to improve their vaccine safety capacity. We investigate the genetics of adverse events following immunisation (adversomics) to provide advice to families.
We study how antibiotics are used in Australia and internationally and how to use them more effectively and less frequently.
We conduct research into infections in preterm babies as part of the international NeoNIN network, and in children hospitalised with serious infections.

Funding

We are funded through the NHMRC, DHHS Victoria, Department of Health and Ageing, the National Institutes of Health, GAVI, and various philanthropic organisations.

Collaborators

We collaborate nationally and internationally.

In Victoria we collaborate with a range of different groups including those from:
Nationally we collaborate with:
Internationally our collaborators include:
- World Health Organization
- Global Vaccine Data Network
- Brighton Collaboration
- Cincinati Children’s Hospital
- Shenzhen Children’s Hospital
- St George’s Hospital, London
- Oxford University

Clinical Sciences at Monash Health

Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Infections in Pregnancy

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Researchers

External researchers

Staff and students

Research streams

Funding

Collaborators