The Child and Adolescent Health service conducts a wide range of research, often in collaboration with other health services, universities and research institutes.

Learn more about some of our featured projects or explore research across our departments.

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ACORN project Determining research priorities for paediatric anaesthesia and perioperative medicine in Australia
Early Moves Early Moves aims to understand the link between young babies’ movement patterns and later development.
FH in Kids New bid to tackle familial hypercholesterolaemia from childhood
Food Allergy Clinical Research Program Improving the health and wellbeing of WA children and their families by reducing the burden of food allergy
Healthy Lifestyle Program This family-based program is for children and young people affected by higher weight who are wanting to make healthy lifestyle change.
Move to Improve: helping kids move more Move to Improve is a new service based at Perth Children’s Hospital that supports children and adolescents with ongoing health conditions such as cancer, type 1 diabetes, cerebral palsy and burns related injuries to increase their participation in physical activity.
Safer Care for Children in Hospital research program The Safer Care for Children in Hospital Research Program commenced in 2019 as the ESCALATION research project.
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Last Updated: 11/08/2025

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