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  • Obang says "I want to be a bridge between my community and the Child and Adolescent Health Service, sharing essential health information and building awareness about the support and services available".
    Obang helps migrant and refugee families navigate health services 29 June 2026 Obang Girma Othow was born in Ethiopia, and came to Australia in October 2016 from a refugee camp in Kenya. On arrival, he was amazed by the quality of the services and healthcare available for his children and family. As a father of twins who were born preterm, he has firsthand experience of the health service as a parent. These experiences motivated Obang to become a Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) Community Ambassador. “I have a deep desire to give back to the community,” he said. Having seen the quality of care and services available for migrant and refugee families, Obang is eager to ensure more people in his community are aware and know how to access help when they need it. “I want to be a bridge between the system and CAHS,” he said. “I will be proactively sharing essential information with the communities I represent, making sure families ...
  • Padmini says "Ensuring that no child's wellbeing is compromised because of cultural or linguistic misunderstanding. Every child deserves safe, compassionate and culturally response healthcare, and I am committed to helping make that a reality".
    Meet CAHS Community Ambassador Padmini Saxena 20 June 2026 For over two decades, Padmini Saxena has worked in Western Australian schools as a teacher, supporting children and families from a wide range of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. This grounding and her own lived experience fuel her goal to ensure families from all cultural backgrounds feel informed, empowered and supported when navigating the health system. This also drove Padmin...
  • CAHS Nurse of the Year Winner Natalie with Kym from the West Perth Rotary Club
    Winner announced at Rotary-CAHS Nurse of the Year awards 19 June 2026 The Rotary-Child and Adolescent Health Services (CAHS) Nurse of the Year awards celebrating excellence in nursing were held at Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) on 18 June. The Nurse of the Year award recognises the outstanding performance of a nurse who demonstrates commitment to an excellent standard of practice and professionalism and provides high quality, safe, evidence based, child and family...
  • Introducing CAHS Community Ambassadors "My Why?"
    Meet the voices shaping better care for families: introducing My Why? 16 June 2026 At the Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS), this work is strengthened by our Community Ambassadors - a dedicated group who partner with us by sharing their lived experience, cultural knowledge and insights to help improve care for children, young people and families across our community.
  • A family holding up their artwork created during the workshop.
    Children and families help shape artworks for WA’s first children’s hospice 08 June 2026 Earlier this month, children, families and volunteers contributed to creative workshops, helping shape integrated glass artworks for Sandcastles (Boodja Mia), WA’s first purpose-built children’s hospice.

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  • PhD pathway program ensuring bright future for clinical research in WA
    PhD pathway program ensuring bright future for clinical research in WA 05 April 2023 Two outstanding Perth Children’s Hospital clinicians will be supported to pursue a career in medical research, paving the way for more clinician-scientists in Western Australia.
  • Dr Kristina Reuter with Summer Walker who is participating in the SYMBA trial with her son Louie. Daughter Remi is also pictured.
    Boost for trial aiming to prevent childhood allergies before they start 24 March 2023 A clinical trial aiming to reduce childhood allergies with a prevention approach has been boosted thanks to Telethon Trust funding. The SYMBA study is investigating if a prebiotic dietary supplement taken during pregnancy and breastfeeding can reduce the development of allergies in children.
  • Response in relation to the release of the Coroner’s Findings into the death of Aishwarya Aswath 24 February 2023 The Coroner’s report following the Inquest into the death of Aishwarya Aswath at Perth Children’s Hospital in April 2021 was released today. Read the statement from CAHS Board Chair Dr Rosanna Capolingua.
  • Rae Robinson, Physiotherapist
    Celebrating our Churchill Fellows and their focus on robotic innovation, telerehabilitation and pharmacogenomics 13 February 2023 Two PCH staff – Rae Robinson and Zeyad Ibrahim – have been awarded prestigious Churchill Fellowships to pursue further research in their respective fields
  • Dr Alison Salt and PCH patient Matthew Boettcher
    Maximising potential by understanding the link between childhood vision impairment and development 13 February 2023 Dr Alison Salt, Consultant Paediatrician in Kids Rehab WA at Perth Children’s Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, has co-authored a book “Children with Vision Impairment”, incorporating more than 4 decades of experience from clinician researchers in collaboration with leading experts around the world.
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