Strategic Leadership Group

  • Professor Danielle Gallegos

    Professor Danielle Gallegos is the Chair of the Woolworths Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research funded by the Queensland Children’s Hospital Foundation. She has over thirty years of experience as a practicing dietitian with fifteen of those as a public health nutritionist and ten years in academia. Since arriving in academia Danielle has...

  • Professor Nikhil Thapar

    Professor Nikhil Thapar is a Clinical/Health Services Research Senior Research Fellow position at QUT within the Woolworths Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research and is a member of the Strategic Leadership Group. Professor Nikhil Thapar is Director of the Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Liver Transplant service at Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, where...

  • Associate Professor Severine Navarro

    Professor Severine Navarro is a Children’s Hospital Foundation Fellow and spokesperson to the Woolworth Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research. The focus of her research is the development of hookworm protein-based therapeutics for the treatment of chronic inflammatory diseases such as allergy, asthma, inflammatory bowel diseases and mood disorders. She completed...

  • Kate Kruger

    Ms Kate Kruger is the Centre and Knowledge Translation Manger for the WCCNR. Kate has a wealth of project management experience  in the areas of women’s wellness, advanced practice nursing, wound care and most recently clinical practice. With an academic background in public health she has worked closely with key researchers...