Identifying and meeting gaps in Public Health issues is my passion and the centre of my professional work. I trained in Education and Psychology at London University and completed my Masters in Public Health at Curtin University, WA. Twenty-five years later, I decided it was time to complete the cycle, and due to my work with families who had tragically experienced the death of a child, I focused my PhD on the gaps and challenges for these families. I graduated from the University of Queensland in 2014. I then had a life-changing experience which caused me to stop work and life as I knew it for almost 5 years. In 2024 due to my own experience of pet loss over the years, I trained as a pet loss counsellor, a much needed and often misunderstood grief.