Associate Professor Asha Bowen is a clinician scientist working across the Perth Children’s Hospital as a paediatric infectious disease specialist and the Telethon Kids Institute as Head of the Healthy Skin and ARF Prevention Team and leads the END RHD Program. Asha and her team launched the inaugural National Healthy Skin Guidelines to guide clinicians in the recognition and evidence-based treatment of skin infections, and are updating this resource in 2023. Asha has more than 10 years’ experience leading infectious diseases research and investigator-initiated clinical trials focused on issues significant to Aboriginal child health and ARF prevention. Asha is currently the Vice President of WSPID and will be the President from November 2023 to November 2025.