Western Australian epidemiologist Professor Fiona Stanley is the only Western Australian among the first group to be invited to join Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Australia Summit. In 1990, Professor Stanley became the founding director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. She is also a professor at the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at University of Western Australia, CEO of Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth, and was named Australian of the Year in 2003.