Professor Fiona Stanley
Professor Fiona Stanley is a passionate advocate for improving the health and wellbeing of children and families in Australia and worldwide.
She was the founding Director of the Telethon Kids Institute (1990-2011), and is an expert in epidemiology, publishing over 300 papers and serving on numerous advisory boards including the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, the Federal Government's Social Inclusion Board and the WA State Government's Indigneous Implementation Board.
She was named Australian of the Year in 2003, honoured as a "national living treasure" by the National Trust in 2004 and has a hospital named in her honour.
Professor Stanley is the UNICEF Australia Ambassador for Early Childhood Development; Distinguished Research Professor at the School of Paediatrics and Child Health, UWA; Vice Chancellor's Fellow, University of Melbourne; and Chair of the newly-formed Alcohol Advertising Review Board.
Professor Stanley has led one of Australia's longest-running pregnancy cohort studies, and as Chair of the External Advisory Board of NEW1000, will provide considerable expertise to the governance of the study.