Professor Alicia Spittle

Professor of Physiotherapy, University of Melbourne

Alicia Spittle is part of the Healthy Trajectories Advisory Committee, and a professor of physiotherapy. Alicia is a physiotherapist and clinician researcher within the Melbourne School of Health Sciences, where she leads the Paeds Co-Lab (Paediatric Collaborative for Learning and Allied Health Research).

In addition to her role at the University of Melbourne, Alicia works clinically in the neonatal intensive care unit and follow-up clinic at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia and has a research appointment at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. Inspired by her own family’s experiences with disability, her research and clinical work is focused on improving health and well-being outcomes for children with disabilities and their families, with inclusion at the heart.

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Alicia is smiling in her trail running gear as she takes a break from her trail run. She is surrounded by nature on the Larapinta Trail with a water hole, rocks and trees in the background.

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