Professor Franz Babl is the Group Leader of Emergency Research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and the Professor of Paediatric Emergency Medicine at the University of Melbourne. He works as a paediatric emergency physician at The Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne. He studied in Germany, the United Kingdom and the USA and trained there as a paediatric emergency physician and infectious diseases physician.
 
 He was the co-founder and founding chair of the Paediatric Research in Emergency Departments International Collaborative (PREDICT) network in Australia and New Zealand and is a current member of the executive committee. This network involves all major paediatric hospitals in Australia and New Zealand, with >500,000 paediatric presentations per year. This collaboration is uniquely placed to conduct multicentre trials.
 
 Professor Babl has conducted many collaborative studies with the PREDICT network, more recently including overseas research networks. His research focus is on large, multicentre observational and interventional studies to improve acute care in children. He is a mentor and supervisor to advanced trainees, PhD students and early career researchers within PREDICT. He has published >400 peer reviewed publications including in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA and BMJ. He has received >$50 million funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Medical Research Futures Fund and other organisations and is the director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Paediatric Emergency Medicine.