Melissa Wake

Melissa Anne Wake is a New Zealand paediatrician and scientific director of the Generation Victoria initiative, which states the aim of creating very large, parallel whole-of-state birth and parent cohorts in Victoria, Australia, for Open Science discovery and interventional research. She is group leader of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute's Prevention Innovation Research Group and holds professorial positions with the University of Melbourne and the University of Auckland (the Liggins Institute).

Her "population paediatrics" research spans common childhood conditions and antecedents of diseases of ageing. She leads the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children's biophysical repository (the Child Health CheckPoint) and a consultant paediatrician at Melbourne Royal Children's Hospital. In 2017, she took up the Chair in Child Health Research at the University of Auckland, later returning to Melbourne to lead the foundational stages of Generation Victoria.

Awards 2008, 2016 NHMRC "Ten of the Best" publication 2009 Australian Health Minister's Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Research 2012 National Health and Medical Research Council – Excellence Award – Highest-ranked Research Fellowship

Selected publications Randomised and quasi-experimental trials

Data resources and cohort research