Sharyn Burns is the Director of Health Promotion and Sexology and a Co-Director of the Western Australian Centre for Health Promotion Research within the School of Public Health. She writes and teaches a range of undergraduate and postgraduate health promotion units and supervises honours, Masters and PhD students. Sharyn's research focuses on mental health promotion and prevention, alcohol and other drugs and obesity prevention with a particular emphasis on children, youth and parents. Current research includes intervention based research focusing on bullying prevention in schools, alcohol interventions for adolescents and tertiary students, encouraging parents to support breastfeeding and evaluating health promotion interventions. Sharyn is lead CI on the Sexuality and Relationships Education Project focusing on training pre-service and practicing teachers.