Healthy Beginnings Team
Project Team
Li Ming Wen
Chief Investigator
Alison Hayes
Associate Professor in
Health Economics
Christine Phillis
Research Nurse
Mahalakshmi Ekambareshwar
PhD Student
Louise Baur
Professor of Child & Adolescent Health Associate Dean & Head WCH
Catherine Llewellyn
Child and Family Health Clinical Nurse Educator
Huilan Xu
Research &
Evaluation Officer
Linda Elbayeh
Research Assistant
Chris Rissel
Director of the NSW Office of Preventive Health and Professor of Public Health at USYD.
Paola Gordon
Child and Family
Health Nurse Manager
Sarah taki
Senior Research Officer
Annmaree Lavery
Research Nurse
Myna Hua
Manager Health Promotion Service, South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Jenni Jones
Child and Family Health Clinical Nurse Consultant
Wendy Smith
Research Nurse
Project Management Team
Project Team
Angela Balafas
Communication Manager
Karen Bedford
Program Manager
Lorraine Dubois
Manager, Population Health
NSW Local Health District
Elisabeth Murphy
Senior Clinical Advisor Child Health
NSW Ministry of Health
Dr Jon Hyett
Prof Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
Kyra Sim
Manager Childhood Obesity
Sydney Local Health District
Philayrath Phongsavan
Prevention Research Collaboration
University of Sydney
Mandy Williams
Director of Health Promotion
South West Sydney Local Health District
Karen Wardle
Program Manager
South West Sydney Local Health District
Advisory Committee
Li ming wen
Chef Investigator
Sydney Local Health District,
University of Sydney
Dr Teresa Anderson
Chief Executive
Sydney Local Health District
Lou-Anne Blunden
Director, Clinical Services Integration
Sydney Local Health District
Deborah Willcox
Director of Operations & General Manager
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,
Sydney Local Health District
Miranda Shaw
General Manager, Community Health
Sydney Local Health District
Julie Dixon
Director, Population Health
South East Sydney Local Health District
Julie Mooney
Executive Director, Nursing & Midwifery
Southern NSW Local Health District