Associated institutes and centres

Local

Major research bodies within the Kids Research Institute at The Children’s Hospital which are affiliated with the University and provide avenues for collaborative research include:

• Academic Surgery
• The Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU)
• NSW Centre for the Advancement of Adolescent Health (CAAH)
• Children's Chest Research Centre (CCRC) / Respiratory Medicine Research
• Centre for Evidence Based Paediatrics, Gastroenterology & Nutrition (CEBPGAN)
• Children's Hospital Burns Research Institute (CHBRI)
• The Children's Hospital Education Research Institute (CHERI)
• The Children's Hospital Institute of Sports Medicine (CHISM)
• Centre for Kidney Research (CKR)
• The Developmental Cognitive Neuropsychology Research Unit (DeCog)
• Institute of Endocrinology and Diabetes
• Gastroenterology and the James Fairfax Institute of Paediatric Nutrition
• Gene Therapy Research Unit
• Human Genome Research Program
• Heart Centre for Children
• Centre for Perinatal Infection Research
• Intestinal Disease Research
• National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS)
• Neonatology and the Grace Centre for Newborn Care Research Unit
• The Institute for Neuroscience and Muscle Research (INMR)
• NSW Centre for Overweight and Obesity (COO)
• Nursing Research and Practice Development Unit
• Nursing and Allied Health Research Committee
• Children's Cancer Research Unit (CCRU)
• Orthopaedic Research and Biotechnology Unit
• Psychological Medicine
• Rehabilitation Department Clinical Research
• Virology Research
• Institutes of the Westmead Research Hub
  - Children's Medical Research Institute (CMRI)
  - Kids Research Institute (KRI)
  - Westmead Hospital
  - Westmead Millenium Institute

International

International Pediatric Sister Program – IPSP:
An international clinical research and education program uniting leading children’s hospitals in the United States (Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC); Italy (University of Padua, Padua, Italy); Australia (Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia); Israel (Dana Children’s Hospital, Tel Aviv, Israel); and Canada (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada)