Research Assistant

**The Opportunity** The Kids have an overarching commitment to address the inequity of the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal children and families. Our Healthy Skin team play an important role in achieving this vision with a wide range of projects that discover, treat and prevent infectious diseases, with a focus on the health of kids and families in...

**The Opportunity** The Early Neurodevelopment and Mental Health team is focused on preventing childhood mental illness and optimising children’s development and wellbeing in the first years of their life. We are interested in understanding and identifying the factors that contribute to difficulties in mental health and development, as well as developing...

The OpportunityThe Early Neurodevelopment and Mental Health team is focused on preventing childhood mental illness and optimising children's development and wellbeing in the first years of their life. We are interested in understanding and identifying the factors that contribute to difficulties in mental health and development, as well as developing...

The OpportunityThe Global Disease Modelling (GDM) team is an interdisciplinary team of researchers that develop and use mathematical models to understand parasitic and viral diseases and inform public health decision-making. Led by Professor Melissa Penny, the GDM group uses data analysis, modelling and simulation, to examine complex interactions between...

**_Pursuant of Section 50(d) of the Equal Employment Opportunities Act 1984, the occupant of this position must be of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent._** **The Opportunity** The Kids have an overarching commitment to address the inequity of the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal children and families. Our Healthy Skin team play an...

Pursuant of Section 50(d) of the Equal Employment Opportunities Act 1984, the occupant of this position must be of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.​The OpportunityThe Kids have an overarching commitment to address the inequity of the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal children and families.​Our Healthy Skin team play an important...

**The Opportunity** Our Translational Genetics Team focuses on providing molecular analysis of genetic variants (gene mutations), to better inform the early and accurate diagnosis of children living with genetic and rare diseases. The team applies functional genomics to interpret patient genetic variants in relevant disease modelling systems. Some of your...

**The Opportunity** One in 20 Australian children has surgery every year. To ensure that these kids have the best possible recovery outcomes and lead happy, healthy lives, our Perioperative Medicine team at The Kids Research Institute Australia, works hard to make discoveries that will improve children’s perioperative care and lead to global practice...

**The Opportunity** ***It is a very exciting time at The Kids Research Institute Australia as we continue to evolve from what began in the 1980’s as a vision to create a world-class child health research hub. We have recently changed our name from the Telethon Kids Institute, but we continue to achieve our vision of happy, healthy kids! The Nutrition in...

**The Opportunity** The Australian Strep A Vaccine Initiative (ASAVI) is on a mission to develop a safe and effective vaccine to reduce the disease burden caused by Strep A infection though vaccination. ASAVI is a partnership between Telethon Kids Institute and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. We now have an exciting opportunity available for an...