Dr Harriet Hiscock

Professor Harriet Hiscock MBBS, FRACP, MD, Grad Dip Epidemiology

​Professor Harriet Hiscock is a consultant paediatrician and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. She is Associate Director, Research at the Centre for Community Child Health, Group Leader, Health Services and Economics group at Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Chief Health Officer of a digital edutainment company - Matterworks.

Professor Hiscock’s research focuses on developing, testing and implementing new approaches to keep children out of hospital; improve access to mental health care and (iii) integrate health, social and education services to improve health and wellbeing for children, including those living with family adversity.

She has published over 300 peer reviewed papers and has been awarded continuous National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funding since 2002 . She was awarded NHMRC's "10 of the Best Research Projects 2023" for her groundbreaking trials in sleep in children with ADHD and with autism. Her clinical interests include developmental behavioural paediatrics and behavioural sleep problems.