About us
Representing a 30-year interdisciplinary collaboration between The Kids, Perth Children’s Hospital, and WA Universities, the combined global impact of work from this Centre over the last 10 years has equalled some of the most influential paediatric centres around the world.
Our collective ambition
Representing a 30-year interdisciplinary collaboration between The Kids, Perth Children’s Hospital, and WA Universities, the combined global impact of work from this Centre over the last 10 years has equalled some of the most influential paediatric centres around the world. This means that, right here in WA, we have one of the leading centres in the world for research into the prevention and cure of respiratory disease in children.
Our aim is to revolutionise current approaches to respiratory healthcare and drive pioneering discoveries out of the labs and into hospital wards — improving the respiratory health of millions of children the world over.
Vision
To ensure that all children have healthy lungs for life.
Mission
To prevent and cure respiratory illness in children through world-class, multidisciplinary research, that will drive pioneering discoveries out of the labs and into the community, across WA, Australia and beyond.
The Wal-yan Respiratory Research Centre aims to:
- Improve the lives of all children with breathing difficulties by finding ways to protect, repair, and regenerate young lungs;
- Reduce the enormous healthcare costs associated with the treatment of asthma, cystic fibrosis, and other chronic respiratory diseases in children in Australia;
- Reduce the significant Indigenous health gap in relation to respiratory disease;
- Provide evidence-based respiratory health information to the community and advocate for issues relating to respiratory health in children and young people;
- Attract and retain the world’s best respiratory research clinicians and develop the next- generation of respiratory research luminaries;
- To work towards a world where all children have healthy lungs for life;
- Consider the lifelong influences of respiratory health and ensure that early intervention underpins everything we do.
Contact us
General Enquiries
For all general enquiries about the Centre please email us at Walyan.Respiratory@telethonkids.org.au
EmailFor Researchers
Researchers or Clinicians that are interested in finding out more about becoming involved in our research or potential collaborations, please get in touch with us:
Walyan.Respiratory@telethonkids.org.au
Alternatively, please contact the Research Project Manager directly via the individual project page.
EmailMedia Enquiries
Please direct media enquiries:
Jacqui Caldwell
Communications Specialist
Phone: +61 8 6319 1689
Email: jacqui.caldwell@telethonkids.org.au