Head of Division
Professor Stephen Zubrick MSc AM PhD

Stephen Zubrick currently holds a Winthrop Professorial appointment in the Centre for Child Health Research at the University of Western Australia and is the Head of the Division of Population Sciences at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.  He is also Chairman of the Consortium Advisory Group for the National Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, a Member of the VicHealth Indigenous Advisory CommitteeSteering Committee for the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children and a member of thesits on the Longitudinal Studies Advisory Group of the Australian Government Department of Family and Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. 

In 2010 he received the Citizen of the Year Award for lifetime contributions to the children and young people of Western Australia.
 
Trained in the United States at the University of Michigan, Steve worked in Western Australian hospital and outpatient health and mental health settings for many years before commencing work in 1991 at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research.  Steve holds several national and international competitive research grants and his research interests include the study of the social determinants of health and mental health in children, studies of the genetic and environmental determinants of language development, and large scale psychosocial survey work in non-Indigenous and Indigenous populations.  

Over the past 20 years he has been instrumental in designing and implementing the leading Australian studies (national and state) of child and adolescent mental health. He is particularly interested in human capital and capability expansion in individuals and populations and the translation of research findings into relevant and timely policies and actions on the part of governments and private agencies.

Divisional Summary

The Division of Population Sciences is the largest Division at the Institute and has grown in recent years to almost 200 staff and students.
The Division is made up of multi-disciplinary teams consisting of epidemiologists, clinicians, developmental psychologists, biostatisticians, sociologists and other social scientists. These research teams work collaboratively with government, corporate, non-government and community groups in a wide range of research interests related to child health and development.
The Division investigates a wide range of burdensome conditions that affect the developmental health of children. These include: low birth weight, behavioural and mental health problems, autism, obesity and infection.
Many projects utilize linked population databases to identify patterns and trends of morbidity and mortality and have explored new ways of measuring and analysing the important influences in whole populations of children, their families and communities. More specifically, the Division strives to develop preventive strategies that promote and maintain the health and development of children in addition to their social, emotional, academic, and vocational wellbeing.

Contact
Email - steve@ichr.uwa.edu.au
Phone - +61 8 9489 7777
Fax - +61 8 9489 7700