Helen Milroy
Helen Milroy is a descendant of the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia but was born and educated in Perth. Australia’s first Indigenous doctor and child psychiatrist, she is the Stan Perron Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Perth Children’s Hospital and University of Western Australia and honorary research fellow at the Telethon Kids Institute. Helen chairs the Gayaa Dhuwi Proud Spirit Australia organisation and is a board member of Beyond Blue. From 2013 to 2017 Helen was a commissioner for the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse and from 2017 to 2021 was a commissioner with the National Mental Health Commission. Helen is also an artist, and an author and illustrator of children’s books.
