Dr Asha Bowen is a paediatric infectious diseases specialist leading the Hospital in the Home, HIV and Central Venous Access Device activities of the infectious diseases service. She has more than a decade of experience in conducting paediatric and infectious diseases research, focusing on issues of significance to Aboriginal children and their health through her role as a clinician-researcher at Perth Children’s Hospital and Telethon Kids Institute.
Dr Bowen completed her fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) as a general paediatrician and paediatric infectious diseases specialist in 2009.
Dr Bowen was awarded the 2017 Woodside Early Career Researcher in the WA Premier’s Science Awards for her research to improve the skin health in Aboriginal children. She has used this opportunity to promote science education in primary school aged children.
In November 2020, Dr Bowen was named the Emerging Leader in Science at the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes. She was the only WA scientist recognised at the national awards.
