Donna Cross is an Australian academic, professor, a child health advocate[1] at the School of Global and Population Health within the University of Western Australia and leader of the Telethon Kids Institute.
[5] Cross was historically the Founding Director for the Child Health Promotion Research Centre within the Edith Cowan University, from 2003 to 2012.
[6] As Founding Director she led projects aimed at promoting the mental development and wellbeing of young people.
[9] Cross received a PhD from Columbia University, in New York, and a Bachelor of Education from the Western Australia Institute of Technology in 1983.
[13] Cross has written 38 books and chapters, as at July 2024, with 173 peer-reviewed journal articles, 95 reports, and more than 100 health education resources.