Fiona's Career
Fiona Stanley is a Australian epidemiologist (is the study or the science of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations.
She is known for her public health work and also her research into child and maternal health, disorders such as cerebral palsy(a non progressive and non contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement)
In 1990, she became the founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health
Research, in Subiaco, Western Australia which is a research facility that investigates the causes and prevention of major childhood diseases and disabilities .In 2002, due largely to her lobbying, Prime Minister Howard launched the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) [1] of which she is Chairperson. The Alliance has offices located in Canberra, Perth, and Melbourne, and aims to progress collaboration and evidence based action to improve the wellbeing of
Youth Australians. In her 2003 Kenneth Myer Lecture at the National Library of Australia she talked about "modernity's paradox" in which increasing wealth and opportunity has also resulted in increased social differences and more problems
for children and youth, including increases in asthma, obesity, diabetes, child abuse, binge-drinking, drug abuse and mental health problems. She argued for cross-disciplinary work and said the challenge is "to intervene earlier in the causal cycles".
She is a professor at the School of Paediatrics and Child Health
at University of Western Australia, and the UNICEF Australian Ambassador for Early Childhood Development.
She is known for her public health work and also her research into child and maternal health, disorders such as cerebral palsy(a non progressive and non contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement)
In 1990, she became the founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health
Research, in Subiaco, Western Australia which is a research facility that investigates the causes and prevention of major childhood diseases and disabilities .In 2002, due largely to her lobbying, Prime Minister Howard launched the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) [1] of which she is Chairperson. The Alliance has offices located in Canberra, Perth, and Melbourne, and aims to progress collaboration and evidence based action to improve the wellbeing of
Youth Australians. In her 2003 Kenneth Myer Lecture at the National Library of Australia she talked about "modernity's paradox" in which increasing wealth and opportunity has also resulted in increased social differences and more problems
for children and youth, including increases in asthma, obesity, diabetes, child abuse, binge-drinking, drug abuse and mental health problems. She argued for cross-disciplinary work and said the challenge is "to intervene earlier in the causal cycles".
She is a professor at the School of Paediatrics and Child Health
at University of Western Australia, and the UNICEF Australian Ambassador for Early Childhood Development.