Session 9C: Intergenerational Action
Tracks
Track 3
| Friday, April 24, 2026 |
| 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM |
Speaker
Professor Susan Sawyer
Director
Rch Centre For Adolescent Health
Maximizing participation within a 13-wave cohort study (CATS) spanning multiple life transitions from childhood to young adulthood
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Professor Susan M Sawyer AM MBBS MD FRACP FAAHMS holds the chair of Adolescent Health at The University of Melbourne and is director of the Centre for Adolescent Health, a WHO collaborating centre for adolescent health at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.
Ms Lindsay Pearce
Research Fellow
Murdoch Children's Research Institute & Curtin University
“They lock us up for trying to survive”: The socioecological context of police contact among adolescents experiencing homelessness
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Lindsay Pearce is a Research Fellow with the Justice Health Group, Curtin University, and the Centre for Adolescent Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute. Lindsay uses data linkage and qualitative methods to generate high-quality evidence for system and policy change aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of socially excluded populations.
Dr Lauren Rice
Research Fellow
The University Of Sydney
Raising the voices of young people in remote Aboriginal communities in Australia to identify place-based support needs: The Bigiswun Kid Project
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Lauren is a Research Fellow with the University of Sydney Westmead Children's Hospital. She is passionate about improving the lives of people living in remote Aboriginal Communities, with a specific interest in supporting individuals with disabilities.
Dr Fiona Robards
Senior Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow
The University Of Sydney
AUSTRALIA NEEDS URGENT YOUTH JUSTICE REFORM
3:00 PM - 3:15 PMBiography
I am an academic who is passionate about youth health, public health advocacy, prevention, and health equity. As a Senior Lecturer at The University of Sydney, I specialise in public health and adolescent health. I am also a Senior Research Fellow in Child and Adolescent Health.
Dr Stephen Harfield
Senior Research Fellow
UQ Poche Centre For Indigenous Health
Opportunities to strengthen primary health care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people
3:00 PM - 3:15 PMBiography
Stephen Harfield is a Narungga and Ngarrindjeri man from South Australia. He is a public health researcher and epidemiologist. His research focuses on centring the health and wellbeing needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young people and their communities through Indigenous-led research.