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Dr Susan Clifford

Research Officer
Population Health
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia

Academician Pediatrics
Biography

Dr Susan Clifford is the Project Manager of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children's Child Health CheckPointis, a one-off physical health and biospecimen module for LSAC, taking place in 2014-15. The resulting databank and biobank will become possibly Australia's most important resource for Australian and international child health researchers for years to come. Dr Clifford has a Bachelor of Science (Anatomy & Physiology) with Honours. She completed a PhD in 2009 examining the health, stress, lifestyle and relationship characteristics of Western Australian Fly-in/Fly-out mining employees and their partners. Since 2009, Dr Clifford has worked as a post-doctoral Research Officer at the Centre for Community Child Health within the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Her research interests focus on childhood obesity risk factors, health outcomes and treatment.

Research Intrest

Child Health 

List of Publications
Wake M, Price A, Clifford S, Ukoumunne OC, Hiscock H. Does an intervention that improves infant sleep also improve overweight at age 6? Follow-up of a randomised trial. Archives of disease in childhood. 2011 Mar 1:archdischild196832.
Jansen PW, Mensah FK, Clifford S, Nicholson JM, Wake M. Bidirectional associations between overweight and health-related quality of life from 4-11 years: Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. International Journal of Obesity. 2013 Oct 1;37(10):1307.
Wake M, Clifford SA, Patton GC, Waters E, Williams J, Canterford L, Carlin JB. Morbidity patterns among the underweight, overweight and obese between 2 and 18 years: population-based cross-sectional analyses. International journal of obesity. 2013 Jan 1;37(1):86.
Wake M, Clifford S, Lycett K, Jachno K, Sabin MA, Baldwin S, Carlin J. Natural BMI reductions and overestimation of obesity trial effectiveness. Pediatrics. 2015 Feb 1;135(2):e292-5.
Wake M, Lycett K, Clifford SA, Sabin MA, Gunn J, Gibbons K, Hutton C, McCallum Z, Arnup SJ, Wittert G. Shared care obesity management in 3-10 year old children: 12 month outcomes of HopSCOTCH randomised trial. Bmj. 2013 Jun 10;346:f3092.
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