Eden Grace Robertson

Dr. Eden Grace Robertson is a part-time academic researcher at UNSW Sydney, affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine & Health. Her work focuses on psychosocial needs of families affected by rare diseases, co-designing interventions, and advancing care models for childhood cancer and genetic conditions like Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy. She holds a PhD in Medicine/Paediatrics from UNSW (2019), a Fulbright Scholarship (2022) at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, and has an h-index of 15 with nearly 1,000 citations.

• Educations:
• Bachelor of Psychology (Honours), Macquarie University
• Graduate Certificate in Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, University of Melbourne
• PhD in Medicine (Paediatrics), UNSW Sydney
• Research Interests:
• Psychosocial support for families in clinical trials
• Community engagement in healthcare design
• Novel therapies for inherited retinal diseases
• Awards:
• 2024 Randwick Clinical Campus Publication Award
• 2019 UNSW Dean’s Award for Outstanding PhD Theses

As a Board Director for the Association for the Wellbeing of Children in Healthcare, Eden also contributes to grant review, supervises PhD candidates, and leads national projects like the Inherited Retinal Disease Priority Setting Partnership.