Speaker

Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies
Australian Catholic University

Conference presentation, Day 1
Child protection: public health and the need for prevention, with evidence from the Australian Child Maltreatment Study

Professor Daryl Higgins is the Director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies at Australian Catholic University. For over 30 years, he has been researching child abuse prevalence, impacts, and prevention; public health approaches to protecting children; out-of-home care and mental health; contextual prevention and child-safe organisational strategies. He was one of the Chief Investigators on the first national study of the prevalence in Australia of child abuse and neglect, and its health outcomes – the Australian Child Maltreatment Study.

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