Professor Amanda Cooklin is the Director, Judith Lumley Centre (for women’s, children’s and family health), at La Trobe University. She is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and leads the Work and Family Research Program at the Centre, comprised of 12 funded research projects; a team of 7 scholars; and 9 research students. Professor Cooklin has established expertise in the epidemiology of parents' mental health, the social determinants of parenting, and the work-family interface. Her research includes epidemiological cohort studies and intervention trials, with a focus on establishing the longitudinal relationships between parents' mental health and children's outcomes. Professor Cooklin also has expertise in gender and job inequalities as important social determinants of health and health disparities.  Focusing on workplaces, several of her current projects involve understanding burnout, psychosocial safety and work conditions in the healthcare workforce, and effective implementation of manager-led resources to promote employee health and wellbeing. Professor Cooklin has attracted >$10 million in competitive and commissioned research funding, resulting in > 90 scientific publications. Her work has been translated into workplace policy and toolkits nationally; and has informed policy, advocacy and evidence-based resources for employed parents. Professor Cooklin is an investigator on two funded cross-national projects on work-life balance (Norway, Japan); and has active, funded collaborations with scholars from USA (intervention preventing family and relationship conflict); USA/Ireland (child wellbeing); and USA (work-family balance and working from home). She is also a member (since 2018) of the Scientific Advisory Group for Growing Up in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), a major national cohort study following the development of 10,000 young people and their families with significant policy uptake.