Professor Daryl Higgins
Professor, Institute of Child Protection Studies, Australian Catholic University (ACU)

For 30 years, he has been researching child abuse prevalence, impacts, and prevention; public health approaches to protecting children; child-safe organisational strategies; and approaches to promoting child and family welfare.

He was a Chief Investigator on the first national study of the prevalence in Australia of child abuse and neglect, and its health outcomes – the Australian Child Maltreatment Study