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	The Australian Institute of Policy & Science
		Stanley and her team were able to demonstrate that a maternal diet rich in folic acid - found in green leafy vegetables, fruit and wholegrains - would significantly reduce the likelihood of having a baby affected by spina bifida.
		Fiona Stanley has also maintained a commitment to the maternal and child health of Western Australia's Aboriginal population, in particular with the launch in 1992 of Ngunytju Tjitji Pirni, a service of enhanced care for Aboriginal women and their children in the Eastern Goldfields area of Western Australia.
		Fiona Stanley is considered a world leader in her field, and her research achievements have brought her many honours, including the National Australia Day Council Award of Australian Achiever (1993), the Advance Australia Foundation Award (1995), the Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) (1996), and an Honorary DSc from Murdoch University (1998).
	www.tallpoppies.net.au /cavalcade/stanley.htm (996 words)

	Put Children First (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Professor Fiona Stanley AC was named Australian of the Year in 2003 for her passionate advocacy to improve the health and well-being of Australia's children.
		Fiona Stanley was born in Sydney in 1946 and moved to Perth in 1956.
		Professor Stanley is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, a national organisation that was formally constituted in June 2002 with an agenda to improve the health and well-being of young Australians.
	www.putchildrenfirst.org.au /content/getOnBoard/fionaStanley.asp (270 words)

	The children's crusader - smh.com.au
		Stanley says, with some incredulity, that it has only been in the past 20 years that we stopped relying on death certificates as a measure of our health.
		Stanley is an epidemiologist - she measures, describes and explains the occurrence of disease in populations, using the data to argue for the enhancement of health and wellbeing in the community.
		Born in Sydney in 1946, Stanley moved to Perth with her family in 1956 and later studied medicine at the University of Western Australia.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/28/1043534055300.html (1586 words)

	Fiona Stanley:
		Fiona says today’s society is a toxic mix of social and economic pressures which impact negatively on child health.
		FIONA STANLEY: What is coming out of the data which is absolutely clear as mustard are that for so many of the trends that we're worried about in terms of mental health and physical health and other behavioural outcomes in kids, we are travelling very badly.
		FIONA STANLEY: And you look at the kinds of things that were available for you to get involved in which were damaging to you or worrying to you.
	www.abc.net.au /gnt/history/Transcripts/s1076141.htm (1102 words)

	Fiona Stanley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Professor Fiona Stanley AC (born August 1, 1946) is an Australian epidemiologist noted inter alia for her work on cerebral palsy.
		Fiona Stanley was born in Sydney, New South Wales.
		During her high profile career, Professor Stanley has focussed on the importance of using population data to provide significant health, social and economic benefits to the community.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fiona_Stanley (274 words)

	Duty calls - www.theage.com.au
		When Fiona Stanley flew to Sydney to appear on Andrew Denton's Enough Rope earlier this year, her elder daughter Hallie came along and sat in the studio audience.
		For Dr Stanley, the founding director of Perth's Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, it was an ideal chance to grab a few precious hours with Sydney-based Hallie, 25, a recent NIDA graduate who is looking for work in the theatre.
		Stanley is quick to point out that, as a researcher and the head of her own unit at the University of WA, she was always in a more privileged position than many working mothers.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/11/08/1068243303201.html?from=storyrhs (800 words)

	National Australia Day Council - Australia of the Year Award 2007
		Fiona strongly believes that we must get things right for children and families now, so we can look towards a positive and healthy future for Australia in the next 15 to 20 years.
		Fiona then studied these areas extensively in the United Kingdom and USA over the next six years before returning to Perth to establish research programs at the University of Western Australia and the Health Department of Western Australia.
		Fiona Stanley believes that we should try to do something with our time on earth that will make Australia a better place for generations to come.
	www.australianoftheyear.gov.au /pages/page61.asp (516 words)

	Inequality, poverty and family stress undermine child health in Australia
		Stanley explains that the rarity of death among children masks the growing burden of illness and disability affecting young people.
		Stanley concludes that “the critical issue is not necessarily how many parents a child has but the social and environmental context in which the single parent family operates”.
		Stanley's report is weaker when she seeks to examine the political conceptions that guided the attention paid to child health during the 20th century.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/may2001/chil-m04.shtml (1563 words)

	ABC Radio National: Big Ideas - 4 August 2002 - The Wisdom Interviews: Fiona Stanley (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Fiona Stanley: Yes, he was working much by himself at Prince Henry but of course he was in contact with people like Macfarlane Burnett and that whole group of the Melbourne and Sydney scientists, I guess that they were starting to create the whole history of immunology and infectious disease research in Australia.
		Fiona Stanley: Oh, I think the kind of childhood where you’re allowed to be free and creative, where you are surrounded obviously by love and support, is incredibly important as to how you grow up to relate to people later on and where I guess your sense of self comes and your self confidence comes.
		Fiona Stanley: A lot of them were suffering actually from dehydration, from diarrhoea so it was just like the early history of child health a hundred years ago but it was environmental causes of disease, it was so obvious that this was where it was coming from and many of those children died.
	www.abc.com.au.cob-web.org:8888 /rn/bigidea/stories/s636281.htm (5383 words)

	Studio Guest - Professor Fiona Stanley:
		Professor Fiona Stanley is the founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research that was established in Perth in 1990.
		She is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, a national organisation that was formally constituted in June 2002 with an agenda to improve the health and well being of young Australians and was recently awarded Australian of the Year.
		PROFESSOR FIONA STANLEY: No. I think we have perhaps progressed as a civilisation to say, "We've got to seek alternative means to this." But it is very anguishing, isn't it, to see that that...
	www.abc.net.au /dimensions/dimensions_people/Transcripts/s822496.htm (1107 words)

	CAAH Youth Health Conference 2006
		Professor Fiona Stanley was born in Sydney in 1946 and came to Perth in 1956.
		2003 Australian of the Year, Professor Fiona Stanley is the Founding CEO of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (since 2002), the Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research (since 1990); and Professor of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Western Australia (since 1990).
		As inaugural CEO of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, Professor Stanley has advocated for a higher national priority to be afforded to developmental needs of Australia's young and has been acknowledged for her role in the current Federal Government policy initiative of developing a "National Agenda for Early Childhood".
	www.youthhealth2006.org /fiona.htm (480 words)

	Aboriginal researcher receives Fiona Stanley medal
		Professor Fiona Stanley said Annette, who is a senior woman of the Wongutha Tribe of the Eastern Goldfields, has made a significant contribution to the health of Aboriginal children in the region.
		As a senior Aboriginal woman, her standing in the community and the respect that the community has for her, was extended to the study team allowing the project to succeed.
		The Fiona Stanley Medal was established in 1999 to acknowledge those who have made an outstanding commitment to health and medical research.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2005-10/ra-arr102705.php (293 words)

	Stanley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stanley is an old masculine name from the 11th and 12th century English contraction of 'Stoney Meadow'.
		Francis Edgar Stanley (1849-1918), co-inventor of the Stanley Steamer
		Stanley was the name of the first fishing boat on Iceland to be equipped with an engine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanley (775 words)

	Fiona Stanley: Vision to prevent violence against children \| Opinion \| The Australian
		It is time for all Australians to consider how best each of us can contribute to a stronger society by caring for our children, rather than wearing the financial and emotional cost when things go wrong.
		Fiona Stanley is the goodwill ambassador for UNICEF Australia.
		The launch of the UN Secretary-General's study on violence against children was presented to the General Assembly in New York yesterday.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20570592-7583,00.html (1088 words)

	Professor Fiona Juliet Stanley AC - Senate - The University of Sydney
		Professor Fiona Juliet Stanley AC The degree of Doctor of Medicine (honoris causa) was conferred upon Professor Fiona Juliet Stanley at the Medicine ceremony held at 11.30am on 15 April 2005.
		She and her research team have made major contributions to understanding of the causes and prevention of birth defects and major neurological disorders of childhood, particularly the cerebral palsies; the causes and lifelong consequences of low birth weight; and the patterns of maternal and child health in Australia.
		Chancellor, I present Fiona Juliet Stanley for admission to the degree of Doctor of Medicine, (honoris causa), and I invite you to confer the degree upon her.
	www.usyd.edu.au /senate/committees/StanleyF.shtml (687 words)

	Fighters win top honours - smh.com.au
		With her new high profile, Professor Stanley, a 56-year-old married mother of two daughters, said she hoped to use it as a platform to increase awareness of issues surrounding children and families.
		She already lobbies government and the corporate sector as head of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, and has warned that health and behaviour problems among children have reached alarming levels and a national campaign is needed to avert a looming social crisis.
		Professor Stanley said she was overwhelmed by the award: "I feel very humble about all of this, but it's important to understand this honour is an acknowledgment of all the others who are working towards the same goal."
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/01/25/1042911595142.html (612 words)

	Stanley, Fiona Juliet - Bright Sparcs Biographical entry
		Fiona Juliet Stanley is Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Perth, Western Australia, inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth and Professor of Paediatrics, University of Western Australia.
		Two of Fiona Stanley’s most significant discoveries are that a maternal diet rich in folic acid can prevent spina bifida in babies and that cerebral palsy is not only the result of birth trauma.
		Stanley is also recognised for her considerable contribution to Aboriginal maternal and child health in Western Australia.
	www.asap.unimelb.edu.au /bsparcs/biogs/P002686b.htm (596 words)

	Interviews with Australian scientists – Teachers notes
		Fiona Stanley was born in 1946 in Sydney, New South Wales and moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1956.
		In 1990 Stanley was appointed to her current position as director, TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, and professor, Department of Paediatrics, UWA.
		Since her interview in 2000, Stanley was elected to the Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Science in 2002 and named Australian of the Year for 2003.
	www.science.org.au /scientists/notesfs.htm (1829 words)

	Andrea's Diary: Dr Fiona Stanley - Australian of the Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Over the weekend, Dr Fiona Stanley, of Perth, WA, was named Australian of the Year for 2003.
		Dr Stanley showed that only 10% of cerebral palsy cases were caused by birth trauma, the majority having been caused by an event earlier in the pregnancy that affected the baby’s brain development, and perhaps made the birth more difficult as a result.
		Fiona being Australian of the year was excellent showing that we scientists aren't just here to look at things we are here to prove and detect all the problems that no other human beings can
	www.birthinternational.com /diary/archives/000119.html (366 words)

	Graduate Research School - Fiona Stanley
		She is director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, CEO of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, and Professor of Paediatrics at UWA.
		In 1977, her research group established the WA Maternal and Child Health Base. It is a unique collection of data on births from the entire state which has proved a valuable resource in predicting trends in maternal and child health the effects of preventive programs.
		Professor Stanley’s research also includes strategies to enhance health and well-being in populations; the causes and prevention of birth defects and major neurological disorders such as cerebral palsies; the causes and lifelong consequences of low birth weight; and patterns of maternal and child health in Aboriginal and Caucasian populations.
	www.postgraduate.uwa.edu.au /home/prospective/heroes/fiona_stanley (182 words)

	Born into disadvantage--Australian children face growing inequality Children of the Lucky Country? How Australian ...
		While the work outlines a plethora of risk factors likely to lead to the development of childhood health and behavioural problems, the information it brings to light unambiguously shows that the greatest factor is worsening poverty.
		While single mothers are frequently demonised in the media and by governments, the authors argue that the difficulties that often arise for them and their children result from poverty, not single-parenthood itself.
		Stanley, Richardson and Prior pose the question: “What kind of society is good for children?” Heading their list of answers is the call for “equality”.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2006/jan2006/chil-j30.shtml (1361 words)

	Put Children First (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		When Professor Fiona Stanley appeared on the show in May, 2003 she painted a worrying picture about how many of the main indicators of child health and well-being were getting worse.
		From literally hundreds of Reponses, the ENOUGH ROPE team in consultation with Fiona Stanley, short listed three ad agencies who were all willing to undertake the production of a series of.30 Community Service Announcements pro-bono.
		In the end the concept proposed by Hammond & Thackeray was selected by Fiona Stanley as best reflecting her messages.
	www.putchildrenfirst.com.au /content/getOnBoard/enoughRope.asp (264 words)

	ourcommunity.com.au - Leadership Interview - Fiona Stanley (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A tireless and articulate campaigner for the health and wellbeing of our children, Professor Stanley AC was able to bring the issue to national prominence during her highly successful stint as Australian of the Year.
		Professor Fiona Stanley was born in Sydney in 1946 and moved to Perth in 1956.
		Stanley is the founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research that was established in Perth in 1990.
	www.ourcommunity.com.au.cob-web.org:8888 /leadership/leadership_article.jsp?articleId=948 (460 words)

	National Child Day Forum 2005 \| Healthy Child Manitoba
		Professor Fiona Stanley from Australia was the keynote speaker.
		Named Australian of the Year in 2003, Professor Stanley is a vocal advocate for the needs of children and their families.
		A highlight of the Forum was the opportunity for conference participants to meet with members of the Healthy Child Committee of Cabinet, to share their successes and discuss opportunities for the future.
	www.gov.mb.ca /healthychild/forum2005/index.html (148 words)

	ourcommunity.com.au - Summary of Professor Fiona Stanley speech to the Communities in Control conference
		Professor Stanley gave her audience a rare insight into the state of play for young Australians and their families in 2003.
		Professor Stanley referred to the work of Canadian Professor J. Douglas Willms of the University of New Brunswick who has devised a "Vulnerability Index" in relation to children.
		Professor Stanley emphasised the role of community in combating the woes youth and families face.
	www.ourcommunity.com.au /article/view_article.jsp?articleId=576 (734 words)

	Griffith University - Griffith Lecture
		Professor Stanley is the Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research; Executive Director of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth; and Professor, School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia.
		Professor Stanley was also Australian of the Year in 2003.
		In 1979 Professor Stanley's research group established the WA Maternal and Child Health Research Data Base (MCHRDB), a unique collection of data on births from the entire state.
	www.gu.edu.au /er/griffithlecture/content_griffith_lecture05.html (279 words)

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