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Director, Institute of Child Protection Studies
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Conference presentation, Day 1
Child protection: public health and the need for prevention, with evidence from the Australian Child Maltreatment Study

Professor Daryl Higgins is the Director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies at ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´. For over 30 years, he has been researching child abuse prevalence, impacts, and prevention; public health approaches to protecting children; out-of-home care and mental health; contextual prevention and child-safe organisational strategies. He was one of the Chief Investigators on the first national study of the prevalence in Australia of child abuse and neglect, and its health outcomes – the Australian Child Maltreatment Study.

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