June Wanda Halliday, AM (née von Alpen, 1930 – 21 March 2021) was an Australian biochemist and researcher of liver disease and iron metabolism.
She was a pioneer in the use of serum ferritin and liver iron concentration as diagnostic aids for studying haemochromatosis.
She won a Fulbright grant to study overseas and from 1952 to 1955 undertook research toward a PhD at the University of Wisconsin.
Her husband also undertook his doctorate while in the U.S.[6] Upon graduation, she took up a position with the Middlesex Hospital London as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Courtnauld Institute of Biochemistry.
[5] Halliday returned to Australia in 1956 and lectured in biochemistry with the Department of Pathology of the University of Queensland, researching lead poisoning and haematological problems.