We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Dr Georgia Dawson and Professor Frank Oberklaid, AM, MD, FRACP, DCH to Mornington Peninsula Foundation Board.
Dr Dawson is an educational psychologist and lecturer at Melbourne’s Graduate School of Education. Georgia is a widely published academic and educational psychology professional with particular focus on effective teaching, child literacy and numeracy as well as mental health and wellbeing in primary school children.
Professor Oberklaid is a highly credentialled and experienced paediatrician and has spent many years working in, and researching, his special interest in prevention and early intervention, child mental health and the use of research findings to inform public policy and service delivery. His clinical and research training is in child development and behaviour, and his work as a specialist paediatrician is with children who have developmental and behavioural problems. Professor Oberklaid is an internationally recognised researcher, author, lecturer and consultant, and has written two books and over 200 scientific publications on various aspects of paediatrics.
Ian Hicks AM, MPF Board Chair said “The Mornington Peninsula Foundation is a catalyst, facilitator and incubator for local social change – particularly through early intervention and prevention in education, wellbeing, and inclusion. Both Georgia and Frank, with their many years of clinical and academic experience in child health, education and wellbeing, will add enormous value as MPF continues its big ambition to reduce disadvantage through systems change.”
Discover more about our board directors and the diversity of skills and experience they each bring to support communities on the Mornington Peninsula break the cycle of disadvantage www.mpf.org.au
