Associate ProfessorHaley LaMonica

Associate Professor Haley M LaMonica is a mid-career researcher and Board Certified Clinical Neuropsychologist with 15 years' clinical experience across the lifespan. Dr LaMonica holds a position as an Associate Professor with the Youth Mental Health and Technology Team at the University of Sydney's Brain and Mind Centre, where she co-leads the Health Services and Digital Innovations research stream. Her research focuses on the development of effective, clinically relevant, and culturally and contextually adapted digital solutions to improve mental health and wellbeing for children and young people, with experience working with culturally, ethnically, and linguistically diverse groups from varied socioeconomic contexts. Dr LaMonica also co-leads the Youth Mental Health and Technology Team's Lived Experience Working Group (LEWG) which represents a diverse group of young people with various mental health conditions and presentations also diverse in gender, culture, and sexuality. The LEWG centres the voice of lived experience across the team's research objectives, ensuring that the needs and priorities of those directly impacted by the outcomes have been included in an intentional, non-tokenistic way.