Distinguished Professor Lynn Kemp is Director of the Translational Research and Social Innovation group in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Western Sydney University. Lynn has developed a significant program of community-based child health research that includes world and Australian-first intervention studies such as the Maternal Early Childhood Sustained Home-visiting (MECSH) study and the subsequent right@home randomised trial of sustained nurse home visiting, and the Volunteer Family Connect study, the world’s largest trial of volunteer home visiting. She is extensively published and funded with over $16.5million career research funding, five book chapters and over 100 peer reviewed publications.