Dr Jon Quach
Research Fellow
Population Health
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia
Biography
Dr Jon Quach (BSc (Hons), PhD) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Royal Childrens Hospital's Centre for Community Child Health and has worked on over 10 community-based studies with families and primary schools. Dr Quach completed his PhD in 2011 examining the efficacy of a behavioural sleep intervention in addressing sleep problems in Grade Prep children. Findings from this directly informed a funded NHMRC Project Grant to conduct a translational trial to test the effectiveness of the program when delivered by the Primary School Nursing Program through the Victorian Department of Education and Training. In 2013, Dr Quach was awarded a prestigious Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award to examine how common child health problems shape academic outcomes during the early years of school and how best to address these problems within the traditional school setting. He currently focuses on children with sleep problems, working memory difficulties and children at risk of chronic behavioural/developmental conditions. This involves a strong collaboration between CCCH and the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne.
Research Interest
child health
Publications
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Roberts G, Quach J, Mensah F, Gathercole S, Gold L, Anderson P, Spencer-Smith M, Wake M. Schooling duration rather than chronological age predicts working memory between 6 and 7 years: Memory Maestros study. Journal of Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics. 2015 Feb 1;36(2):68-74.
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Goldfeld S, O’Connor M, Quach J, Tarasuik J, Kvalsvig A. Learning trajectories of children with special health care needs across the severity spectrum. Academic pediatrics. 2015 Apr 30;15(2):177-84.
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Quach J, Jansen PW, Mensah FK, Wake M. Trajectories and outcomes among children with special health care needs. Pediatrics. 2015 Apr 1;135(4):e842-50.
