Krista completed her PhD at Orygen, the Centre of Youth Mental Health at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD developed the first theory of young men’s anxiety, which depicts the pathways through which unidentified and untreated anxiety, can lead to poor mental health outcomes including depression, substance use and suicide. In 2023, Krista was appointed as the Young Men’s Health Research Fellow at the Movember Institute of Men’s Health. She now leads a suite of research projects focused on understanding and ultimately improving young men’s health through the places and spaces which hold meaning to them including social media, gaming and sports. Krista advocates for a community-wide approach to young men’s health research and intervention development. She is passionate about working to reduce the ripple effects of men’s ill-health – ensuring that the benefits of healthy men lead to healthier families, healthier communities, and healthier societies.

Professor Daryl Higgins is the Director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies at Australian Catholic University. For 30 years, he has been researching child abuse prevalence, impacts, and prevention; public health approaches to protecting children; child-safe organisational strategies; and approaches to promoting child and family welfare. He was a Chief Investigator on the Australian Child Maltreatment Study, which was the first national study of the prevalence in Australia of child abuse and neglect, and its health outcomes. It demonstrated not only the high prevalence of child maltreatment in Australia, but how it increases risk of a range of mental health and health-risk behaviours across life.