We provide several tools to help you understand and access what’s available:

Data Collection Timeline
See when and how data was gathered across key developmental stages in our participants’ lives.

Data Summaries – Organised by:

• Questionnaires
• Clinical Measures
• Biosamples
• Derived Data from Biosamples
• Data Linkage
• Genetic Data (e.g., List of BIS SNPs)

For all data requests and enquiries, please contact hassam.iqbal@mcri.edu.au

Our research is guided by frameworks from:

• National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
• Victorian Managed Insurance Authority (VMIA)
• Victorian Consultative Council for Human Research

We are committed to ethical, transparent, and responsible research practices.

Volunteers will have the unique opportunity to immerse themselves in child health research. Based in the Child Health Research Unit, volunteers will partake in appointments that are being conducted on school aged children. Volunteers will gain experience in:

• Obtaining informed consent from study participants
• Ethical considerations in research
• Anthropometric measurements
• Visual and retinal assessments
• Lung function assessments
  • Multiple breath washout
  • Forced Oscillometry Technique
  • Spirometry
• Skin prick testing
• Phlebotomy
• Develop skills in data collection using REDCap
• Participation in BIS fieldwork meetings and child health research group meetings
• Engage in collaborative research discussions, interact with experienced research assistants, and get a firsthand look at how research projects are conceptualised and managed

This hands-on experience provides volunteers with valuable insights into the practical aspects of conducting research and allows students to be an integral part of the Barwon Infant Study and contribute to improving child health outcomes.

Benefits of this program:

• Practical research experience
• Develop technical and analytical skills
• Fosters networking opportunities with professionals in child health research
• Contribute to groundbreaking research in child health

Volunteers with the appropriate qualifications or current students are welcome to apply. Please send a short email to BIS via our email (BIS@barwonhealth.org.au) with the following information:

• First and last name
• The exact months, days and hours per week that you are available to volunteer
• Details of current qualifications and/or study
• The reason you would like to volunteer