Dr. Justine E Leavy is an associate professor in the Curtin School of Population Health. She worked as a dental therapist in private practice dentistry in rural and metropolitan Western Australia for over 12 years before commencing an academic career at the University of Western Australia in 2001. She taught at the University of Western Australia in health sciences, before moving to Curtin University in 2008 to lecture in health promotion. Her current role at Curtin is Discipline Lead Health Promotion and Sexology, Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion, and a Teaching and Research Fellow with the Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Impact in Public Health (CERIPH). She focuses on the evaluation of health promotion interventions specifically in physical activity promotion and injury prevention, and health-related mass media campaigns and their design and evaluation, with an emphasis on translational research. Dr. Leavy is a board member of the Royal Life Saving Society of WA and a member of the Mass Media Advisory Panel for the US National Physical Activity Plan. She is the co-founder of WADER-n, the Western Australian Drowning Evaluation and Research Network; area lead of the EnAble Institute; Fellow of the Australian Health Promotion Association; and Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.