Dr Trevor Duke

Trevor Duke is a paediatrician, Professor in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne, Clinical Director of the General Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, and Adjunct Professor of Child Health at the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Papua New Guinea (PNG).

He led the Centre for International Child Health and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Child and Neonatal Health at the University of Melbourne since 2005.

He is an author and editor of the WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children and other WHO guidelines for paediatric care, he contributed to the Western Pacific Regional (WPR) Child Survival Strategy and the WPR Newborn Care Strategy. Trevor is a member of the Child Health Advisory Committee in Papua New Guinea, the Consultative Council of Paediatric Morbidity and Mortality in Victoria, and has advised governments in Oceania and Asia on child health policy and services. He is an active clinician, and global health editor of Archives of Diseases in Childhood.

His interests are in the quality of paediatric care, how to help health systems function well, health worker education and leadership capacity building, acute respiratory infection and oxygen therapy, chronic childhood conditions including HIV, tuberculosis and non-communicable diseases, paediatric disease surveillance and mortality auditing, and the influence of social, cultural, economic, and environmental influences on the health of less-advantaged children and families. He sees the need to focus on how counties in Asia and the Pacific regions can achieve equity in child and maternal health in the SDG era.