WADAWURRUNG SKIN HEALTH RESEARCHER WINS SCIENCE AWARD

Rebecca Famlonga. Credit: Supplied.

A Wadawurrung woman has won an award for her work with a remote Kimberley community on skin health interventions.

Rebecca Famlonga is a Senior Research Officer with Telethon Kids Institute and a Research Masters student with Murdoch University.

She was named Aboriginal STEM Student of the Year at the WA Premier’s Science Awards last week.

Ms Famlonga has worked with the Beagle Bay community to find ways to reduce skin problems in children.

She said giving Aboriginal people input into high-level decision making will improve health outcomes.

"A large part of the research that I’ve done points to the communities saying that they’ve got the knowledge, and let them work with the researchers and the health professionals to put in place what’s going to work,” she said.

Listen to an interview with Ms Famlonga: