Prof Daryl Higgins is the Director of ACU’s Institute of Child Protection Studies. For 30 years, he has been researching child abuse impacts and prevention, public health approaches to protecting children, child-safe organisational strategies. Prof Higgins has contributed to over 300 publications (including 100 peer-review journal articles). He is a Chief Investigator on a National Health and Medical Research Council grant to conduct the first national study of the prevalence in Australia of child abuse and neglect, and its health outcomes – the Australian Child Maltreatment Study.