Anna Price

Research Manager
Population Health
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia

Academician Pediatrics
Biography

Dr Anna Price is a postdoctoral researcher at the Royal Children's Hospital's Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH). Her research interests include the equitable delivery of health and education services to families, understanding children’s sleep, and using stress biomarkers to objectively assess impacts of research. Anna has experience with the design, management and evaluation of various types of research, including large, community-based randomised and longitudinal cohorts, and quantitative analysis with large datasets. She is the recipient of several travel and public speaking awards, including the Vera Scantlebury Brown Child Welfare Memorial Trust Travel Scholarship. Anna has been the Research Manager for the right@home randomised controlled trial since it began in 2012, managing a team of researchers and students across Victoria and Tasmania to evaluate whether an early home visiting program can better support Australian families.

Research Intrest

child health

List of Publications
Price AM, Wake M, Ukoumunne OC, Hiscock H. Five-year follow-up of harms and benefits of behavioral infant sleep intervention: randomized trial. Pediatrics. 2012 Oct 1;130(4):643-51.
Price AM, Quach J, Wake M, Bittman M, Hiscock H. Cross-sectional sleep thresholds for optimal health and well-being in Australian 4–9-year-olds. Sleep medicine. 2016 Jun 30;22:83-90.