The QFCC is this year hosting the 2024 Australia and New Zealand Child Death Review and Prevention Group (ANZCDR&PG) Conference.
The ANZCDR&PG comprises specialist teams responsible for child death reviews and registers across Australia and New Zealand.
The annual conference offers a professional development opportunity for people working in child death prevention, registration, review, policy and research. Leaders in their fields will present about how data and death classifications can be better used to deepen our understanding of risk factors around child death and strengthen prevention strategies.
This year’s conference will be held online on Tuesday, 14 May 2024. It is a free event, and participants can join for some or all sessions.
Global expert presenters will lead discussions around topics including:
- research in early childhood predictors of adolescent suicidality
- the Australian Youth Self-harm Atlas
- vicarious trauma in the workplace
- the Queensland Paediatric Sepsis Study
- clinical critical incident review process and findings
- genome testing in child death review and prevention
- domestic and family violence
- characteristics of recommendations from child death reviews.
Welcome & Overview
Luke Twyford, Principal Commissioner Queensland Family and Child Commission
Session 1: Suicide risk factors and prevention
Preschool Predictors of Early Adolescent Suicidality
Dr Joan Luby - Washington university School of Medicine (US)
Australian Youth Self-Harm Atlas: Spatial modelling and mapping of self-harm prevalence to inform youth suicide prevention strategies
Dr Emily Hielscher - The University of Queensland
Session 2: Paediatric infection/ Clinical
Paediatric Sepsis Mortality Study – Findings and recommendations for practice improvement
Dr Rebecca Shipstone - Queensland Family and Child Commission
Dr Paula Lister - Queensland Paediatric Sepsis Program Children’s Health Queensland
Findings from a multi-incident review of serious paediatric clinical incident reports in Queensland
Dr Sharon Anne McAuley - Chair, Queensland Paediatric Quality Council
Jodie Osborne - Coordinator, Queensland Paediatric Quality Council
Genome testing in child death review and prevention
Dr Joanna Garstang - NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
Session 4: A New Zealand Perspective
Family Violence review committee (NZ) – An ongoing duty to care – responding to survivors of family violence homicide
Kiri Matiatos - Principal Advisor, Family Violence Mortality Review
The machinery of child death prevention, best practice for recommendations to be implemented
Dr Gabrielle McDonald - Otago University