Elizabeth Elliott Am MD, MPHIL, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPCH, FRCP

Elizabeth Elliott AM is Professor in Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney and Consultant Paediatrician at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. Throughout her career she has been dedicated to improving health and quality of life for children in Australia and beyond, through education, research, clinical care and advocacy. During 30 years she has established an international reputation for high quality laboratory, clinical and public health research and holds a prestigious senior National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellowship.

In 1993 she founded a national research resource, the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU), to facilitate study of rare childhood diseases, and is its Director. APSU has been used by >400 clinicians and researchers throughout Australia and has been funded by the NHMRC, the Australian Research Council and the Department of Health and Ageing (DoHA). She helped establish and co-leads the Paediatric Active Enhanced Disease Surveillance (PAEDS) system for inpatient disease surveillance, which was invaluable in monitoring pandemic influenza in 2009 pandemic. This project was named one of the ’10 of the Best’ of thousands of NHMRC funded projects for 2013.