The Stan Perron Charitable Foundation (SPCF) has awarded more than $13 million in People grants to 12 Curtin researchers for projects aimed at benefiting children in Western Australia and beyond.

Congratulations to the following academics:

  • Associate Professor Kefyalew Alene (School of Population Health and The Kids Research Institute Australia) – Geospatial analytics for the control of influenza in Western Australian children.
  • Professor Yvonne Anderson (Curtin Medical School) – Enhanced child health and wellbeing outcomes through equitable contemporary models of care.
  • Professor Jaya Dantas (School of Population Health and enAble Institute) – EMPOWER-Her Plus – Using Participatory, Co-design Approaches to protect Young Women and Girls (12-24 years) from Honor based Violence, Forced Marriage, Modern Slavery and Gender-based Cultural Harms.
  • Professor Sarah Egan (School of Population Health and enAble Institute) – Empowering Young Minds: Improving prevention and treatment of youth mental health problems through internet self-help interventions.
  • Professor Fenella Gill (School of Nursing) – Keeping our children safe in WA hospitals.
  • Professor Penelope Hasking (School of Population Health and enAble Institute) – Preventing suicide among West Australian youth.
  • Dr Elizabeth (Lizz) Hill (School of Allied Health and enAble Institute) – Finding their voice: Addressing biases in mental health services faced by children with language difficulties.
  • Associate Professor Anthony Kicic (School of Population Health and The Kids Research Institute Australia) – Discovering and implementing early interventional therapies to prevent chronic lung disease in young children.
  • Associate Professor Elizabeth Newnham – (School of Population Health and enAble Institute) – Resilient futures: Co-designing mental health interventions for children and young people in disaster-affected communities across Western Australia.
  • Dr Felicity Roux (Curtin Medical School) – Promoting mental and menstrual wellbeing amongst adolescent girls through strengths-based menstrual health education and care.
  • Professor Carrington Shepherd (Curtin Medical School and enAble Institute) – Increasing the pace of change to equity in Aboriginal perinatal health: Evidence for advocacy and intervention.
  • Associate Professor Roslyn Ward (School of Allied Health) – B5: Bridging the Gap – From Misunderstood to Understood.

SPCF supports research involving child health, inclusive of antenatal, adolescent and young adult health, prioritising research that has impact, tackles the causes of health problems and builds research capacity within Western Australia.

Eight people standing on grass, surrounded by leafy green trees. They smile and some hold up thumbs up and arms in triumph.
L-R: Grant recipients Professor Jaya Dantas, Dr Felicity Roux, Associate Professor Kefyalew Alene, Professor Yvonne Anderson, Associate Professor Elizabeth Newnham, Dr Elizabeth Hill, Professor Sarah Egan and Professor Carrington Shepherd. Not Pictured: Professor Fenella Gill, Professor Penelope Hasking, Associate Professor Anthony Kicic and Associate Professor Roslyn Ward.