Health Promotion and Education Research

The Health Promotion and Education team focusses on investigating ways to improve and promote kids’ health, development and learning and support the needs of families, communities, industries, and governments.

This team provides high quality scientific evidence, and translation to intervention policy and practice, that works at the individual, family, community, and society levels to promote optimal health, development and learning in childhood and adolescence.

Team Values:

• Research excellence
• Collaboration
• Innovation
• Integrity
• Impact

Our team objectives are to investigate:

• Ways to improve and promote social and emotional wellbeing and mental health.
• Collaborative ways to improve the life course of children and young people.
• Ways to improve and promote healthy lifestyle behaviours.

Team Highlights:

• Professor Donna Cross was named one of the Node Directors of the 2020 ARC Life Course Centre.
• Beacon Cyber Safety app launched in Partnership with Bankwest in September 2020.
• Bright Tomorrows app was launched over Telethon Weekend in October 2019 and has since received over 24,000 downloads.
• Successful Healthway Tender in partnership with ECU to develop and evaluate an arts-based health promotion program to promote and enhance the social and emotional wellbeing of children and young people engaged in the arts in Western Australia. This tender is being conducted in conjunction with Healthway and its arts partners.
• Successful Healthway and Lotterywest grant (OASIS: Online Assessment, Support and Implementation System). The OASIS project will undertake a pragmatic, stepped-wedge randomised trial of a data integration system that supports evidence-based decision making and implementation of tailored interventions to meet school wellbeing and mental health needs post-COVID-19.
• The Health Promotion and Education Research Team has produced a combined total of over 800 publications, including over 400 journal articles.