Meet the Author

Engaging, authentic speaker providing insight into a life-threatening Melanoma diagnosis. Personal stories & poetry reveal an emotional journey that inspires all to be better at protecting themselves from the sun. Reflections on Australia’s culture & advertising motivates industry to help change the narrative around sun protection and tanning. Anne believes that in order to make a sustainable improvement to Australia's skin cancer rates, personal responsibility as a means of solving the problem is insufficient. Anne has undertaken significant secondary research of peer reviewed articles to understand what drives tanning behaviours as well as Australia's social norms with regard sun exposure and how they came about.