Professor Lynn Kemp is Director of the Translational Research and Social Innovation group in the School of Nursing and Midwifery Western Sydney University. Lynn has developed a significant program of community-based child health research that includes world and Australian-first intervention studies such as the Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) study, the first randomised trial of sustained nurse home visiting that is embedded in universal health services, and the subsequent right@home randomised trial of sustained nurse home visiting. She is now leading an international program of translational research, studying the implementation of these effective interventions at population scale world-wide in Australia, England, South Korea and the USA.

Penny Dakin, appointed as ARACY Acting CEO in June 2018, has previously worked as General Manager for Policy and Strategic Engagement with ARACY. She has also worked in a number of senior capacities and with organisations including Insight Consulting, the Australian Government Department of Health, and A Village for Every Child. Penny also sits on a number of boards including that of the Belconnen Community Service. Penny is passionate about ensuring young Australians, regardless of their background or circumstances, receive every opportunity to reach their potential and is a firm believer in ARACY’s unique role as a driver of collaboration and as a leader of alliances to help achieve this.