Draft:Jennie Hudson

Professor Jennifer (Jennie) Hudson is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of New South Wales and Director of Research at the Black Dog Institute. She is a children's mental health researcher whose work focuses on the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders in young people.

Professor Hudson is an NHMRC Investigator Fellow (2022-2027) and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (2018). In 2023 she was elected chair of the Childhood Mental Health Research Plan Expert Advisory Panel to develop the Childhood Mental Health Research Plan to advise how funding from the Medical Research Future Fund should be allocated to child mental health research in Australia. She has participated in other government panels and initiatives to inform child mental health policy in Australia, such as the Million Minds Mental Health Research Mission Expert Advisory Panel.

She has produced more than 170 peer-reviewed publications, including book chapters, and has made significant contributions to the development of child mental health interventions such as the Cool Kids program. She was awarded an AMP Tomorrow Maker in 2021, and presented a TEDx talk in 2014 on raising emotionally healthy children to prevent anxiety.

Professor Hudson completed her PhD and Master’s degrees at Macquarie University in Sydney, where she later held a position as Director of the Centre for Emotional Health from 2015 to 2020, before her current position at the Black Dog Institute in Sydney where she works on digital interventions with her child mental health research team.