Melissa Wake
Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Faculty of Medicine
Professor Melissa Wake (MBChB, FRACP, FAHMS, MD, GradDip Obst & Gynae) is a paediatrician, community child health researcher, and Director of the Generation Victoria (GenV) initiative, led from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Her goals are to speed up children’s research and to test interventions that change children’s care. She is known for her many randomised trials and her leadership of major data resources, including the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children’s biophysical module (the Child Health CheckPoint). She chairs the Children’s Digital Health Collaborative National Research Advisory Group.