Professor Helen Milroy
Perth Children's Hospital Foundation Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Helen is a descendant of the Palyku people of the Pilbara region of Western Australia but was born and educated in Perth. She studied Medicine at the University of Western Australia, and was Australia’s first Indigenous doctor. She worked as a General Practitioner and Consultant in Childhood Sexual Abuse for several years before completing specialist training in Child and Adolescent psychiatry. Helen has been on numerous State, National, International and College policy committees, Reference and Advisory groups and boards including the National Health and Medical Research Council Human Ethics Committee; Headspace Board; Australian indigenous Doctors Association Board and the Wharerata group for GLE.
Helen is currently the Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; a Commissioner with the National Mental Health Commission; Co-chair of the Million Minds Medical Research Advisory Group and Honorary Research Fellow with the Telethon Kids Institute. From 2013-2017 Helen was a Commissioner on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. In 2019 Helen was appointed as a Commissioner with the Australian Football league.
Helen was appointed to the GLE Board in May 2024