Liena Fordham

Kalgoorlie-Boulder children have used sand drawings to tell an animated story promoting a research project into heavy metal deposition in children’s teeth. The Heavy Metal Tooth Fairy Project encourages kids across the Goldfields to donate their fallen-out baby teeth and have them analysed for heavy metal exposure. The Heavy Metal Tooth Fairies at the Rural Clinical School in Kalgoorlie-Boulder last Friday. Picture: Isabella Davis Twelve Kalgoorlie-Boulder children have spent two weeks...

Annette Stokes was made an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Western Australia last week. A Wongutha-Ngadju woman from the ...

With her new University of Western Australia Honorary Doctorate under her wing, Annette Stokes AM is flying back to WA’s Goldfields with a new research goal in her sights.   The senior Wongutha, Mulba-Ngadu and Anagu woman is a chief investigator for the Heavy Metal Tooth Fairy Project, an Australian-first study identifying childhood exposure to heavy metals in regional and remote communities.  The project builds on Annette’s work for the Western Desert Kidney Health Project with her...