Dr Simone Harrison (BSc JCU 1989, MPHTM JCU 1997, PhD JCU 2000, FACTM, ARM(F) Australasian Management Research Society 2021) is an epidemiologist with three decades of experience in research related to the adverse and beneficial effects of sun exposure. She is the Principal Research Fellow of the Skin Cancer Research Unit, James Cook University, in Queensland, Australia and is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Southern Queensland. She is a long-standing member of Standards Australia’s Technical Committee TX-021 responsible for revising the sun-protective clothing Standards for Australia and New Zealand (AS/NZ 4399), and in 2018 helped to implement minimum sunsafety requirements for school uniforms across Queensland in conjunction with the Procurement Branch of the Queensland Government Department of Education and the Queensland Health Prevention Branch. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles including a first author article in The Lancet and has attracted over $6m in research funding to date, including several prestigious National Health and Medical Research grants.