The WA Mental Health Conference 2024 provides a dynamic space to enhance knowledge and shared perspectives among the mental health workforce, people with lived experience, community members and professionals whose work relates to mental health and wellbeing.
Di Darmody
Host
With over 20 years experience as a journalist and presenter with ABC Radio, Di Darmody is a well known – and popular – voice for listeners in Perth and throughout Western Australia.
Di has presented ABC Radio Perth Breakfast, Mornings, Afternoons, Drive, Saturday Breakfast, The Country Hour as well as National Nightlife. She has also worked on National Grandstand, AFL and WAFL coverage and hosted a variety of regional and state-wide programs across Western Australia.
Now Di is a sought-after professional MC, interviewer, facilitator and conference host, working across WA as well as for national organisations – either in person or virtually.
Dr Piers Gooding
Dr Piers Gooding is an Associate Professor at La Trobe Law School, and an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. His work focuses on mental health law, policy, and practice. He is the author of A New Era for Mental Health Law and Policy: Supported Decision-Making and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2017) with Cambridge University Press, among other publications, and he is on the editorial board of the International Journal for Mental Health and Capacity Law and International Journal of Disability and Social Justice. Piers has worked with a range of international organisations and agencies, including the UN Special Rapporteur for the Rights of People with Disabilities, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, the World Psychiatric Association and the World Health Organization. Piers held roles as a senior research fellow at Melbourne Law School (2015-2023) and a research fellow at the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, at Galway University in Ireland (2014-15). He has a background in law and humanities, with degrees from the University of Melbourne and Monash University.
We are excited to have secured some of the most inspiring minds from around Australia and the world representing a range of professions, experiences, genders, cultures and ages.