Speaker

Director, Centre for Community Child Health
Royal Children’s Hospital

Conference presentation, Day 1
Radical pragmatism: can we achieve equity in child health development in a generation?

About

Professor Sharon Goldfeld AM is a paediatrician and Director, Centre for Community Child Health (CCCH) the Royal Children’s Hospital, Co-Group leader of Policy and Equity, and Theme Director, Population Health at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She has a decade of experience in state government as a senior policymaker in health and education, including Principal Medical Advisor in the Victorian Department of Education and Training. Professor Goldfeld’s career pathway has strategically straddled research, policy and practice. Her research program is made up of complementary, synergistic and cross-disciplinary streams of work focused on investigating, testing and translating sustainable policy relevant solutions that eliminate inequities for Australia’s children. She has had continuous fellowship support from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) and secured over $117 million in research funding with 235 publications. As an experienced policymaker, public health and paediatric researcher she aims to ensure ongoing effective, rapid translation of research into the policy and service arena.

In 2020 Professor Goldfeld was awarded the inaugural Marles Medal in STEM (science, technology, engineering and medicine) for excellent and original research that led to outstanding achievement in research impact. She recently received an Order of Australia (AM) and in 2024 was elected a Fellow to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (AAHMS)

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