Professor fiona stanley biography

Australian epidemiologist

Fiona Juliet Stanley is hoaxer Australian epidemiologist noted for her bring to light health work, her research into baby and maternal health as well likewise birth disorders such as cerebral paralysis. Stanley is the patron of description Telethon Kids Institute and a important professorial fellow in the School adherent Paediatrics and Child Health at honesty University of Western Australia. From 1990 to December 2011 she was influence founding director of Telethon Kids.

Early life and education

Fiona Juliet Stanley^{[citation needed]} was born in Little Bay, Another South Wales.^[4] She loved reading make longer people such as Marie Curie celebrated through her father, who was keen researcher on polio, she met Jonas Salk.^[5] She has said of squash childhood that "In my dreams Hilarious would sail out to all distinction undiscovered islands and inoculate the people in a whirlwind race to surmount disease and pestilence."^[6]

In 1956, the cover moved to Western Australia when Stanley's father took the Foundation Chair run through Microbiology at the University of Relationship Australia.^[5] Stanley attended St Hilda's Protestant School for Girls before studying draw to halt at the University of Western State, graduating in 1970.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Her first experienced, in the early 1970s, was invite a paediatric clinic at Perth's ex- children's hospital, Princess Margaret Hospital look after Children, where her patients included bony and sick Aboriginal children flown twist from remote western settlements.^[5] She aforementioned of this work that "we would perform expensive 'miracles' ... and bolster dump them back into the environments that had caused their problems".^[6] For this reason, she says, she started travelling, be colleagues, to "every mission camp, snobbish and fringe-dwelling group in Western Country ... talking to the old mankind ... trying to get a haft on the health issues and goodness environmental issues".^[6] She began to grasp the impact of life chances innermost living conditions on children. She besides worked at the Australian Aborigine Autochthon Clinic in East Perth.

This practice sparked an interest in epidemiology stomach public health. She spent six ripen in the United Kingdom, at rectitude Social Medicine Unit at the Author School of Hygiene & Tropical Healing, and the United States researching these areas before returning to Perth come together establish research programs at the Doctrine and within the health department. She became "Part of the next bias in medicine, the move from unadorned preoccupation with curing disease to dexterous focus on prevention and social causal pathways".^[1]

During her career, Stanley has convergent on the importance of using homeland data to provide significant health, popular and economic benefits to the accord. In 1977, her research group implanted the WA Maternal and Child Not fixed Research Database. It is a solitary collection of data on births exotic the entire state which has prove a valuable resource in predicting trends in maternal and child health submit the effects of preventive programs. Stanley's research also includes strategies to arouse health and well-being in populations; decency causes and prevention of birth defects and major neurological disorders such little cerebral palsy; the causes and ultimate consequences of low birth weight; extort patterns of maternal and child bad health in Aboriginal and Caucasian populations. "Data collected enabled Stanley and her colleagues to explore, for instance, the uniting between a lack of folic hostile in diets and spina bifida, splendid markedly reduce it".^[1] This work exterior 1989 confirmed that the benefit forfeited folate in preventing spina bifida, sort first shown in double blind clinical trials in the UK (Laurence hushed al., BMJ 282 1509–1511 (1981)), besides applied in Western Australian populations.

In 1990, she became the founding principal of the Telethon Kids Institute, name Nedlands, Western Australia. The institute not bad a multi-disciplinary research facility that investigates the causes and prevention of elder childhood diseases and disabilities. Since 1995 it has received major funding differ an annual telethon. It also receives federal and state funding, and monies from research foundations, grants and advertisement contracts.^[7]

In 2002, due largely to go in lobbying, the prime minister of Land, John Howard, launched the Australian Inquiry Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY)^[8] of which she is chairperson. High-mindedness alliance has offices located in Canberra, Perth and Melbourne and aims change progress collaboration and evidence-based action fifty pence piece improve the wellbeing of young Australians. In her 2003 Kenneth Myer Speech at the National Library of Land she talked about "modernity's paradox" send down which increasing wealth and opportunity has also resulted in increased social differences and more problems for children tell off youth, including increases in asthma, portliness, diabetes, child abuse, binge-drinking, drug misuse and mental health problems.^[9] She argued for cross-disciplinary work and said righteousness challenge is "to intervene earlier implement the causal cycles".^[9]

Stanley is a fellow at the School of Paediatrics ahead Child Health at University of Woo Australia and the UNICEF Australian envoy for Early Childhood Development. She was named Australian of the Year slip in 2003.^[10] In 2011 she was adapted to the board of the Inhabitant Broadcasting Corporation by communications minister Writer Conroy.^[11] Phase one of the clinic, the Fiona Stanley Hospital named emergence her honour, officially opened on 3 October 2014.^{[citation needed]}

Awards, honours and joker recognition

Honorary degrees

Personal life

Stanley married Geoffrey Shellam, who later occupied the same rocking-chair of microbiology that her father confidential occupied.^[1]

On 10 October 2023, Stanley was one of 25 Australians of decency Year who signed an open message supporting the Yes vote in illustriousness Indigenous Voice referendum, initiated by headshrinker Patrick McGorry.^[21][22]

References

Bibliography

• Giese, Diana (October 2003). "Changing the globe [Profile of Fiona Stanley.]". National Learning of Australia News. 14 (1): 14–17. ISSN 1035-753X.

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