Sharon Goldfeld is a paediatrician and public health physician, who is Director of the Centre for Community and Child Health at the

Royal Children's Hospital The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) is a major children's hospital in Melbourne, Australia. As a major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria, the Royal Children's Hospital provides a full range of clinical services, tertiary care, as well ...

, Co-Group Leader of the Policy and Equity Research Group, and Theme Director, Population Health, at the

Murdoch Children's Research Institute The Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) is an Australian paediatric medical research institute located in Melbourne, Victoria, affiliated with the Royal Children's Hospital and the University of Melbourne. The institute has six research ...

. Goldfeld's research and publications cover early childhood development, parenting and social impacts. Her right@home randomised controlled trial, early intervention nurse home visitation project was recognised with the Marles Medal for outstanding impact in research, and as the most robust of its kind across Australia. Goldfeld was closely involved in the initial development of the Australian Early Development Index (AEDI), which has been adapted and is now used extensively in Australian Schools as the Australian Early Development Census. Additionally, Goldfeld is Lead Chief Investigator in the nation-wide Kids in Communities data linkage study, funded by the

Australian Research Council The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the primary non-medical research funding agency of the Australian Government, distributing more than in grants each year. The Council was established by the ''Australian Research Council Act 2001'', ...

(ARC) to identify the community-level factors that improve children's outcomes in low socio-economic areas and develop an evidence-base for future studies.

Awards

Goldfeld was awarded the inaugural Marles Medal in 2020 by the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

. She won the Rue Wright Award for "best community child health research" in 2010 and 2011. The award was presented during the Annual Scientific Meeting of the

Royal Australasian College of Physicians The Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP) is a not-for-profit professional organisation responsible for training and educating physicians and paediatricians across Australia and New Zealand. The RACP is responsible for training both ...

. Goldfeld won the inaugural

Aileen Plant Aileen Joy Plant (died 27 March 2007) was a leading Australian infectious diseases epidemiologist. She was professor of international health at Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia. Born in the Victorian country town of Warr ...

Award in 2008 in recognition of her "contribution to Australian public health leadership and research". The award was sponsored by the Public Health Association of Australia, the Australian Epidemiological Association, the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and the Australian Health Promotion Association. She was awarded the Exam Medal by the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine in 2007. She won a Creswick Foundation Travelling Fellowship in 2003 and a Harkness International Fellowship in Health Care Policy, for 1999–2000.

Highlighted publications

* Potential indirect impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on children: a narrative review using a community child health lens. * 'right@home’: a randomised controlled trial of sustained nurse home visiting from pregnancy to child age 2 years, versus usual care, to improve parent care, parent responsivity and the home learning environment at 2 years. * Kids in Communities Study (KiCS) study protocol: a cross-sectional mixed-methods approach to measuring community-level factors influencing early child development in Australia. * Epidemiology of positive mental health in a national census of children at school entry. * Jurisdictional, socioeconomic and gender inequalities in child health and development: Analysis of a national census of 5-year-olds in Australia.

References

External links

right@home

Kids in Communities Study
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