Rate My Professor Asha Bowen

Professor Asha Bowen OAM is a Clinical Professor in the UWA Medical School, Division of Paediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Western Australia, and a paediatric infectious disease specialist at Perth Children’s Hospital. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Geography and Environmental Studies from the University of Tasmania in 1997, Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of Sydney in 2001, Diploma of Child Health from the University of New South Wales in 2004, Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2010, and Doctor of Philosophy from Charles Darwin University in 2015. As Team Lead of the Healthy Skin and ARF Prevention team at The Kids Research Institute Australia, she oversees research focused on paediatric infectious diseases, including impetigo, scabies, skin infections caused by Streptococcus pyogenes and Staphylococcus aureus, and rheumatic fever prevention in Aboriginal children. Her efforts emphasize practice-changing clinical trials, such as the SToP (See, Treat, Prevent) trial addressing skin sores and scabies in remote Western Australia, and the SNAP-PY trial evaluating treatments for paediatric Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections. She has also contributed to COVID-19 research, including as Co-Chair of the Paediatric and Adolescent Panel of the National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce from 2020 to 2023.