Dr Sharyn Burns is Professor of Health Promotion in the Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in the School of Public Health at Curtin University, Western Australia. She is Chair, Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee. Sharyn is a health promotion practitioner and researcher with a specific interest in translational intervention based research. Her research includes a specific focus on children, adolescents, young adults and parents and has been conducted in a range of settings with key focuses on sexual health, mental health, alcohol and other drugs and obesity prevention. Professor Burns has a strong background in school-based health promotion research and has expertise in conducting evaluations, in mixed methods research and in implementing innovative health promotion interventions. Sharyn teaches undergraduate and postgraduate health promotion and public health students and has supervised 10 PhD, 62 Masters and 4 Honours students to completion. She is currently supervising 6 PhD students. Sharyn is a long term member of the Australian Health Promotion Association and is currently a member of the National Accreditation Organisation Assessment Committee.