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Jennifer Harrison
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Dr Jennifer Harrison
Chair, WPA Section for Art and Psychiatry
Congratulations to Dr Jennifer Anne Harrison AM, appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to youth and children's psychiatry, and to the arts.
Dr Harrison is a child and youth psychiatrist specialising in neuropsychiatry at the Alfred/Bayside Infant Child Youth Area Mental Health and Wellbeing Service. She lectures at the University of Melbourne where she also founded and manages The Dax Poetry Collection, and sits on the Acquisition Committee for The Cunningham Dax Collection of mental health art. Dr Harrison currently chairs the World Psychiatry Association’s Section for Art and Psychiatry.
She has published ten award-winning collections of poetry and in 2012 received the Christopher Brennan Award for sustained achievement in Australian poetry.
Congratulations to Dr Jennifer Anne Harrison AM, appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to youth and children's psychiatry, and to the arts.
Dr Harrison is a child and youth psychiatrist specialising in neuropsychiatry at the Alfred/Bayside Infant Child Youth Area Mental Health and Wellbeing Service. She lectures at the University of Melbourne where she also founded and manages The Dax Poetry Collection, and sits on the Acquisition Committee for The Cunningham Dax Collection of mental health art. Dr Harrison currently chairs the World Psychiatry Association’s Section for Art and Psychiatry.
She has published ten award-winning collections of poetry and in 2012 received the Christopher Brennan Award for sustained achievement in Australian poetry.
