Associate Professor Asha Bowen is a clinician scientist working at Perth Children’s Hospital as a paediatric infectious disease specialist and Head of Healthy Skin and ARF prevention team at the Telethon Kids Institute. Dr Bowen's clinical role informs her research as a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) funded Fellow. Dr Bowen was awarded her PhD at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin in 2015 for a large randomized controlled trial on the treatment of impetigo in remote Indigenous children. She is the lead investigator for the SToP trial to “see, treat and prevent” skin infections, a large cluster randomised trial with a stepped wedge design recruiting from 2019-2022 throughout the Kimberley region in Western Australia. Dr Bowen also leads an observational study in the Kimberley to better understand the superficial Strep A infections, impetigo and pharyngitis, to improve primary prevention of rheumatic fever. Dr Bowen and her team launched the inaugural National Healthy Skin Guideline to guide clinicians in the recognition and evidence-based treatment of skin infection. She is also the Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Paediatric Infectious Diseases committee and Deputy Chair of the Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases clinical research network.