Our team of experts, researchers and students are collaborating globally to improve the health and wellbeing of children and families, affected by some of the most devastating, complex, and common diseases and issues.

Our individual ‘why?’ is often what drives our passion and purpose. Together, with your support we can truly make lifechanging impact in Australia and around the world.

An advocate for early and effective interventions, Vincent is a Senior Research Fellow in the School and Community Wellbeing team at Telethon Kids Institute.

Initially studying psychology, Vincent never planned on becoming a researcher. He found it challenging working with only very few people and was in search of a role with wider impact, finding his passion in child health research.

His work is primarily focused on empowering fathers and father figures to improve the health and wellbeing of children. As a child of migrant parents, he learnt valuable lessons through his parent’s experience of facing adversity for different reasons. The common thread that helped them thrive in Australia were close family ties.

His research interests are diverse, spanning early neurodevelopment, parenting, child disability, grief, psychopathology, and emotion regulation. Vincent also maintains an active portfolio of teaching and student supervision, having successfully supervised students at the intern, undergraduate, and postgraduate level.

Vincent is also a self-proclaimed ‘stats-nerd’ – having a keen interest in research methodology and quantitative research methods, including scale development, psychometrics, latent profile analysis, latent growth curves, factor analysis, and advanced regression analyses.

Dr Hannah Thomas used to work in science outreach and education but saw many missed opportunities to connect abstract scientific concepts with students’ own lives.

Hannah now works in child health research to empower kids about their own health. Her focus is on health promotion and engaging kids not only to achieve better health outcomes but to build autonomy about their health and self-determination as they grow up.

She supports the coordination and scientific direction of the SToP Trial, which aims to reduce the burden of skin sores (caused by Strep A infection) and scabies in school-aged children through the implementation of a holistic skin control program of ‘See’, ‘Treat’ and ‘Prevent’ skin health activities in the Kimberley region of WA.

Understanding the burden of childhood skin infections in both remote and urban WA, Hannah and her team are co-developing and designing clinical resources and promoting health messages to empower healthy skin decision-making for children and families.