Dr Eleanor Freedman
Medical Director and Forensic Manager, NSW Health Education Centre Against Violence
Dr Ellie Freedman is a medical forensic examiner and a sexual health physician with extensive clinical experience in management of adult sexual assault. She is passionate about the provision of trauma informed, patient centred health care.
She is the manager of the medical and forensic portfolio at ECAV, (NSW Education Centre Against Violence) and is the senior clinical advisor (adult sexual assault) to NSW Health PARVAN Branch. In these roles she provides state-wide workforce and training advice to NSW Health services and to a range of external stakeholders involved in the response to people who have experienced sexual violence.
Professor Ben Mathews
Lead Investigator, Australian Child Maltreatment Study | Professor, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology | Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health
Professor Ben Mathews is a Research Professor in the School of Law at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was a Professorial Fellow to the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Prof Mathews is an internationally renowned researcher on child maltreatment, conducting innovative, transformative research to assist in preventing, detecting, and responding to child abuse and neglect. He is especially recognised for his research into how legal and social systems can best define, prevent, identify, and respond to child sexual abuse.
Dr Jane Brabin
General Practitioner and Educator with the Education Centre Against Violence
Dr Jane Brabin is a General Practitioner with a passion for rural/regional primary care. She has worked as a medical and forensic examiner in sexual assault services for 13 years as part of the medical team providing a crisis response to victims of sexual violence. She collaborates with the Education Centre Against Violence assisting with the delivery of education for doctors and nurses responding to victim-survivors of violence, abuse and neglect.