
Publications by year
PhD, University of Melbourne, 1998
Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, 2000
Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education, Flinders University, 2002
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, University of Melbourne, 1988
Fellow, Asian Pacific Society of Respirology, 2013
Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, 1995
Professor Anne Chang is a senior NHMRC practitioner fellow (since 2004) and a paediatric respiratory physician. She is an established leading researcher with international recognition in cough, bronchiectasis and evidence based medicine (EBM) related to children. She has helped develop and apply EBM for respiratory illnesses nationally and internationally.
Professor Chang is also responsible for changing paradigms in the investigation and management of paediatric cough leading to earlier diagnosis of bronchiectasis, describing a pre-bronchiectasis condition (PBB) and the establishment of the first international Indigenous collaborative respiratory study. She leads 2 research groups (in Brisbane and Darwin) and has a major interest in improving the lung health of Indigenous children.
Awards/Committee Membership
- National Chronic Respiratory Disease Committee
- American College of Chest Physicians Cough Guidelines Committee
- ERS taskforce member for ‘Diagnosis and management of tracheomalacia in children
- TSANZ Research Committee
- Chair of NHMRC ECF Panel
Projects (Chief investigator)
- A multi-centre double-blind RCT on community-acquired pneumonia in Indigenous children and a developing country: Improving clinical outcomes and identifying systemic biomarkers
- Children’s cough specific Quality of Life (QOL) – acute cough
- Development and validation of a bronchoscopically defined bronchitis scoring tool (BScore) – retrospective and prospective studies
- Double blind randomised controlled trial (RCT) on the utility of personalised bronchiectasis action management plans (BAMP) for children with bronchiectasis
- Multicentre randomised controlled trial to improve the management of exacerbations in children with bronchiectasis
- Preventing early-onset pneumonia in Indigenous children through maternal immunisation: a multi-centre randomised controlled trial (RCT)
- Randomised controlled trial on duration of amoxycillin-clavulanic acid for chronic wet cough in children
- Randomised placebo controlled trial (RCT) of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) for treatment of acute and chronic cough in children
- Reference values for spirometry and fractional exhaled nitric oxide (FeNO) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young adults: a cross-sectional study
- The Australian national non-cystic fibrosis Bronchiectasis Registry
- Validation of an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parent proxy health-related quality of life tool for children with chronic health conditions