Trevor Duke MD

Dr Trevor Duke, MD is a Director of the Centre for International Child Health at the University of Melbourne. He is also a Deputy Director of the ICU and Clinical Director of the general intensive care unit at Royal Children's Hospital and has broad experience in all aspects of child health in developing countries.

Trevor also holds an appointment as an Adjunct Professor of Child Health in the School of Medicine at the University of Papua New Guinea, where he coordinates the post-graduate paediatric training program. He is a member of the PNG National Department of Health Child Health Advisory Committee, and previously worked as a provincial paediatrician in Goroka.

Trevor heads the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Child and Neonatal Health. He was an author and editor of the WHO Pocketbook of Hospital Care for Children, which has been translated into 18 languages and is used in over 40 low and middle-income countries. He is the editor of the WHO manual on the Clinical Use of Oxygen in Children, and the WHO guideline on clinical mortality and morbidity auditing. Trevor annually compiles the publication Randomised Trials in Child Health in Developing Countries, which is distributed to over 2000 paediatricians, nurses, institutions and UN agencies throughout the world.

Trevor’s particular research interests include the epidemiology and management of acute respiratory infections, improving the quality of paediatric care in the district and provincial hospitals, oxygen and hypoxaemia, disease surveillance and auditing, neonatal illness, meningitis, and childhood tuberculosis. He is particularly focused on Pacific child health, having been involved in the training of over 50 paediatricians in PNG, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu since 1997.