Congratulations to Associate Professor Asha Bowen, who has been awarded the 2022 Frank Fenner Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases.
The honour – awarded based on a portfolio of original research in infectious diseases – is the peak research award conferred annually by the Australian Society for Infectious Diseases (ASID).
Associate Professor Bowen is Program Head of the END RHD research program at Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, based at The Kids Research Institute Australia, and has other key roles including Head of the Infectious Diseases Department at Perth Children’s Hospital, and Co-Chair of ASID’s Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Infectious Diseases Group.
At The Kids Research Institute Australia, she leads a team focused on improving skin health in remote- and urban-living Aboriginal children. Her research has driven breakthrough knowledge and policy change, improving health outcomes in WA and nationally – including through the development of evidence-informed guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin disease.
For more information on the award, see ASID’s media release here.