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The University of Western Australia’s Professor Helen Milroy is one of seven mental health champions from around the country to be selected as a finalist for the 2020 Australian Mental Health Prize.

One of only two Western Australians named among the finalists, Professor Milroy was nominated alongside former WA Health Minister and mental health advocate Keith Wilson.

Australia’s first Indigenous medical graduate, Professor Milroy lectures in psychiatry at UWA’s Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences and is Perth Children’s Hospital Foundation Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Honorary Research Fellow with Telethon Kids Institute…