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Dr. Trevor Duke is the director of the Centre for International Child Health (CICH) in the University of Melbourne's department of paediatrics. The Centre for International Child Health is Australia's only World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Child and Neonatal Health, and works with WHO and country partners, with a focus on improving child survival in developing countries. This involves a broad program of research, capacity development and training for local health professionals, and child health policy and health systems development. CICH is contributing to WHO's child survival strategy in the Western Pacific region, and leading WHO's global strategy of improving hospital care for children. Areas of the research include acute respiratory infection aetiology and case management, oxygen systems, vaccine preventable disease epidemiology and surveillance, improving the quality of paediatric care in remote hospitals, tuberculosis and neonatal care.

Dr. Duke is an intensive care specialist at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. He has worked for many years in Papua New Guinea, and he is an adjunct professor of child health in the School of Medicine at the University of Papua New Guinea