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Email

wake@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Department of Paediatrics
Education

University of Melbourne
Graduate Diploma
University of Melbourne

The University of Glasgow

University of Auckland
ORCID

0000-0001-7501-9257

Prof Melissa Wake

Honorary (Professorial Fellow)
Department of Paediatrics

563 Scholarly works
1 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2022

    Research Grant

    NONA: Newborn Obstetric Network Australasia - A Clinical Quality Registry for Women With the Most Complex Pregnancies
  • 2020

    Journal article

    The effectiveness of working memory training for children with low working memory
    DOI: 10.1542/peds.2020-0957
  • 2019

    Journal article

    Impact of a Behavioral Sleep Intervention on New School Entrants’ Social Emotional Functioning and Sleep: A Translational Randomized Trial
    DOI: 10.1080/15402002.2018.1469493
  • 2017

    Journal article

    The Cumulative Effect of Health Adversities on Children's Later Academic Achievement
    DOI: 10.1016/j.acap.2017.03.002
  • 2016

    Journal article

    Academic Outcomes 2 Years After Working Memory Training for Children With Low Working Memory: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
    DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.4568
  • 2015

    Journal article

    Trajectories and outcomes among children with special health care needs
    DOI: 10.1542/peds.2014-2431
  • 2013

    Journal article

    Sleep well - Be well study: Improving school transition by improving child sleep: A translational randomised trial
    DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-004009
Melissa Wake

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2017
‘Ten of the Best’ 2017 One of ten outstanding completed awards across all categories each year, from around 1000 funded by the NHMRC. National Health and Medical Research Council
2013
Director’s Award for Outstanding Achievement ($100,000 prize) Murdoch Children's Research Institute
2013
Elizabeth Blackburn Fellow: Highest-ranked Public Health Research Fellowship to a female applicant (#1046518) National Health and Medical Research Council
2012
Excellence Award: Highest-ranked Research Fellowship National Health and Medical Research Council

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Parents' preferences for interventions to improve aspects of children's current and future health: two discrete choice experiments.
    DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2025-329155
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Cohort Profile: Generation Victoria (GenV)
    DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyag028
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Measuring Environmental Noise for Babies in Special Care Nurseries and Neonatal Intensive Care Units on a Large Scale: Research Methods
    DOI: 10.1002/hsr2.71890
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Parental preconception exposure to residential outdoor neighbourhood environments and adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes: a scoping review
    DOI: 10.55092/ijee20260005
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Study protocol - the Australian National Child hearing Health Outcomes Registry (ANCHOR): collecting and connecting national data into a child deafness Learning Health System
    DOI: 10.1186/s12913-026-14123-y
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Lessons for the Next Global Health Crisis: A Qualitative Systematic Review of Women's Experiences of the Perinatal Period During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia
    DOI: 10.1111/ajo.70054
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Optimizing Decision-Making in Universal Newborn Hearing Screening: A Value of Information Perspective
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2025.11.017
  • 2025

    Journal article

    A scoping review of adult NCD-relevant phenotypes measured in today’s large child cohort studies
    DOI: 10.1038/s41390-025-04056-3

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