Session 4D: Abstracts - Youth Engagement in Research
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Tuesday, November 12, 2024 |
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM |
Speaker
Ms Matilda Houlihan
Community Engagement Lead
Prevention United
Be a part of the ripple – Your voice matters: Findings from Prevention United’s National Youth Survey
2:30 AM - 2:42 PMBiography
Matilda Houlihan is the Community Engagement Lead at Prevention United. She holds a Master of Counselling, BA (Indigenous Studies), and DipLang (Italian).
Ms Jasmine Toronis
Youth Advocate
Prevention United
Be a part of the ripple – Your voice matters: Findings from Prevention United’s National Youth Survey
2:30 PM - 2:42 PMBiography
Jasmine Toronis (she/her) is an empowered Bachelor of Science (Advanced) with Global Challenges (Honours) student at Monash University. She currently lives and works on the lands of the Wurundjeri people in Naarm. Sharing a passion in the unity of psychology and social justice, she is constantly seeking to connect with others in her search for the complementary nature of science and society.
Ms Lizzy Harnett
CEO
The Association for the Wellbeing of Children in Healthcare
Collaborate & Connect: Designing Intersectional Health Engagement with Young People
2:45 PM - 2:57 PMBiography
Lizzy joined the Association for the Wellbeing of Children in Healthcare (AWCH) as their CEO in 2016. Lizzy has a background as a paediatric physiotherapist, in health management, clinical governance, consumer advocacy and engagement. Lizzy is passionate about ensuring that children and young people voices are genuinely heard in healthcare.
Ms Ana Orozco
Research Assistant
Burnet Institute
Exploring youth preferences: age verification methods for online safety
3:00 PM - 3:12 PMBiography
Ana is a Research Assistant within the Young People's Health working group at Burnet Institute. Her key responsibilities include: focusing on the health and wellbeing of young people, particularly in terms of sexual health, working with and for multicultural communities, and advocating for menstrual health needs in Australia.
Ms Karina Reeves
Coordinator - Health Promotion
WAAC
Using Harm Minimisation to empower and keep young people safe at Leavers
3:15 PM - 3:27 PMBiography
Karina Reeves holds a Bachelor of Science (Health Promotion) and is an IUHPE Registered Health Promotion Practitioner. Currently, she is the Coordinator of Health Promotion at WAAC, a non-profit organisation in Western Australia that works towards reducing the transmission of HIV, STIs and BBVs.
Dr Stephanie R. Partridge
Senior Research Fellow
The University of Sydney
Engaging Australian adolescents to prevent non-communicable diseases: participation their way
3:30 PM - 3:42 PMBiography
Dr Stephanie Partridge is a Sydney Horizon Fellow and National Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow at the University of Sydney. Her research is focused on creating healthy societies to improve the health of young people. Stephanie is the co-chair of the International Association for Adolescent Health Emerging Professionals Network.
Mrs Michelle Hartwell
Research Nurse
MCRI
Chair
Philippa Collin
Professor and Co-director
Young and Resilient Research Centre, Western Sydney University