Shelley Gorman

Shelley Gorman (BSc Hons, PhD) is Group Leader of the Cardiometabolic Sunhealth team at the Centre for Child Health Research (Telethon Kids Institute). Her research team aims to improve our understanding of biological processes modified by sun exposure, to provide evidence and do research in humans and for the development of new therapies, and, to help health policy makers give better-informed sun exposure advice. This research is done across 10 complementary projects and includes new avenues of research that include assessing the impacts of sun exposure on health within exposomes modified by climate change, as well as on COVID-19 illness and vaccination.