Lloyd Cox Memorial Lecture

The Robinson Research Institute is pleased to invite you to the annual Lloyd Cox Memorial Lecture.

This lecture series features international research and policy leaders tackling grand challenges in reproduction, pregnancy and child health.

We are delighted to announce that Professor Fiona Stanley will present this year's lecture on the topic:

Before the bough breaks: guarding the future of our children with data and research

Fiona Stanley AC, FAA, FASSA is the Founding Director and Patron of the Telethon Kids Institute (formerly Telethon Institute for Child Health Research), Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Western Australia and Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Melbourne where she was Director, 2013 Festival of Ideas.

Professor Stanley has spent her career researching the causes and prevention of major childhood illnesses and birth defects.

Her research spans population, epidemiological and public health research; maternal and child health in Aboriginal and Caucasian populations; the developmental origins of health and disease; linking research, policy and practice; and strategies to enhance health and well-being in populations. She pioneered the development, linkage and analysis of population level data and record linkage in Western Australia as a research and evaluation capacity.

She established the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth. She has over 300 publications, books and book chapters. She is a board member of the Gurrumul Yunupingu Foundation and a Governor of The Ian Potter Foundation. She is a former board member of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and former member of the Prime Minister’s Science, Engineering and Innovation Council, and has served on major international, national and local committees.

For her research on behalf of Australia's children and Aboriginal social justice, she was named Australian of the Year in 2003 and in 2006 she was made a UNICEF Australia Ambassador for Early Childhood Development.

In this Lecture Professor Stanley will put forward a compelling case for the power of epidemiology. Understanding the patterns, causes and effects of health and disease conditions must be the cornerstone of public health and preventive healthcare, to provide cost-effective health advice and service to children and families. She will advocate that investment in large cohort studies and health data linkage is fundamental to generating solutions for pressing societal problems, and to combat the major challenges that future generations will face.

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