
Overview
Background
Professor Clare Nourse AM is a paediatric infection specialist at the Queensland Children’s Hospital in Brisbane and clinical professor of paediatrics at the University of Queensland. She qualified in medicine in from Trinity College Dublin and trained at Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children in Dublin, Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne and Mater Children’s Hospital in Brisbane. Her particular interests are in tropical medicine, HIV, TB and syphilis infection in children, health in resource limited countries and staph aureus infection. She travels regularly to Timor Leste and is a board director of Maluk Timor, a not for profit organisation in Dili, of which she chairs the Medical Advisory Committee.Clare established the Paediatric Infection Management Service at Mater Children’s Hospital in 2001 and currently leads the Children’s Health Queeensland (CHQ) Paediatric services for HIV, Tuberculosis and Syphilis. Clare regularly contributes to/leads national multicentre trials in Australia and New Zealand. She is the author of 70+ peer reviewed publications. Clare is the recipient of many external grants for service provision (Indo-Pacific Centre for Health Security, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government for the Pacific Infectious Diseases Prevention (PIDP) Program) and research (Queensland Sexual Health Research Fund and others).
Availability
- Professor Clare Nourse is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Arts, University College Dublin
- Postgraduate Diploma, University College Dublin
- Doctoral Diploma of Medicine, University College Dublin
- Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Royal Australasian College of Physicians
Research interests
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Epidemiology of infection in Children
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Paediatric TB
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Paediatric HIV
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Congenital syphilis
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Staph aureus infection
Works
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1997
Journal Article
Primary meningococcal arthritis
Dillon, M, Nourse, C, Dowling, F, Deasy, P and Butler, K (1997). Primary meningococcal arthritis. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 16 (3), 331-332. doi: 10.1097/00006454-199703000-00018
Funding
Past funding
Supervision
Availability
- Professor Clare Nourse is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Extra-Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Africa - Prevalence, Associated Country-level Variables, and Assessment of Country TB Guidelines and National Strategic Plans
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor David Harley, Associate Professor Judith Dean
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2025
Doctor Philosophy
Herpes simplex virus infection and disease in early infancy and childhood in Australia: epidemiology, outcomes and use of aciclovir
Principal Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor Julia Clark
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