Professor Jon Quach

Professor Jon Quach is based within the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, and has over 15 years of experience in research in understanding the role of early childhood and primary schools in supporting the mental health, development and learning of students. He also has interest in connections between health and education systems in a multi-disciplinary approach for all students. He has been involved in the co-design of school-based interventions, as well as in understanding whether promising interventions remain effective when scaled to different contexts and to larger cohorts of schools. He aims to bridge stakeholders across education and health to design and evaluate interventions, as well as ensuring findings bridge the evidence to practice gap for schools.

He has worked within state, national and international policy and organisations to evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of school-based interventions and initiatives that aim to improve student outcomes, as well as having led a number of awarded grants from the Australian Research Council, National Medical Research Council and philanthropic sources.

Professor Quach is an investigator on the Mental Health in Primary Schools (MHiPS) initiative, and is involved in the design, implementation and research related to understanding the impact and sustainability of MHiPS as it is implemented in more settings.