Dr Billy Garvey

Billy is a developmental paediatrician with over 20 years

experience working with children in a number of settings. His

clinical and research interests include child development and

mental health, multidisciplinary collaboration and promoting

community engagement to support all families.

Billy holds clinical, advocacy and research roles in government

and not-for-profit organisations at a national, state and local

level. He is currently undertaking a PhD piloting a model to

support child emotional and behavioural development in

primary schools and is a Churchill Fellow exploring how social media can be used to

support parenting. He appears frequently in the media to improve public access to

evidence-based information regarding child development and mental health.

He is also the co-founder of the Pop Culture Parenting podcast which aims support child

development and wellbeing using evidence in a meaningful, fun and realistic way.