Fernando Lima

Mr Fernando Lima

Research Associate

Australian Centre of Child Protection

College of Education, Behavioural and Social Science

Fernando joined the centre in October 2020 as a Research Assisitant for the Western Australian team. Fernando is an economist with a special interest in the analysis of social and economic disadvantage, social determinants of health, health economics and biostatistics. In his career he has had extensive experience in statistical methods and data analysis. He has been involved in various projects utilising linked administrative data, mainly focused on investigating and understanding the outcomes for young people involved with the child protection system. More broadly, Fernando has been involved in projects analysing health, mental health, educational and justice outcomes for children in Western Australia, including research on alcohol related harm and mental health issues among WA children.

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2025 Lima, F., O'Donnell, M., Gibberd, A. J., Falster, K., Banks, E., Jones, J., . . . Eades, S. (2025). The physical and mental health of mothers of Aboriginal children in out-of-home care in Western Australia. Australian Journal Of Social Issues, online(3), 1-12.
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2025 Maclean, M. J., Lima, F., Taplin, S., Marriott, R., Krakouer, J., & O'Donnell, M. (2025). Prenatal and infant reports and child protection involvement: a longitudinal cohort study. Child Maltreatment, online, 1-11.
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2024 Lima, F., Taplin, S., Maclean, M., & O'Donnell, M. (2024). Infants entering out-of-home care: Health, developmental needs and service provision. Child Abuse and Neglect, 149(106577), 1-14.
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2024 Maclean, M. J., Lima, F., & O'Donnell, M. (2024). Positive reading achievement outcomes in children who experience out-of-home care: characteristics and predictors. Child Abuse and Neglect, 149(106282), 1-15.
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2024 Lima, F., O'Donnell, M., Gibberd, A. J., Falster, K., Banks, E., Jones, J., . . . Eades, S. (2024). Aboriginal children placed in out-of-home care: pathways through the child protection system. Australian Social Work, 77(4), 471-485.
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2024 Maclean, M., Lima, F., & O'Donnell, M. (2024). Investigating positive reading trajectories among children who experienced out-of-home care. Children and Youth Services Review: an international multidisciplinary review of the welfare of young people, 163(107728), 1-12.
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2024 Lima, F., Taplin, S., Maclean, M., Octoman, O., Grose, M., & O'Donnell, M. (2024). Child protection and developmental trajectories of children who entered care as infants. Child Abuse Review, 33(5, article no. e2900), 1-18.
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2023 Harrap, B., Gibberd, A., O'Donnell, M., Simons, K., Jones, J., Lima, F., . . . Eades, S. (2023). Cumulative incidence of child protection system contacts among a cohort of Western Australian Aboriginal children born 2000 to 2013. Child Abuse and Neglect, 143(106297), 1-11.
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2023 O'Donnell, M., Lima, F., Maclean, M., Marriott, R., & Taplin, S. (2023). Infant and pre-birth involvement with child protection across Australia. Child Maltreatment, 28(4), 608-620.
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2022 Lima, F., O'Donnell, M., Bourke, J., Wolff, B., Gibberd, A., Llewellyn, G., & Leonard, H. (2022). Child protection involvement of children of mothers with intellectual disability. Child Abuse & Neglect, 126(105515), 1-10.
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2022 Azimi, S., Lima, F., Slack Smith, L., Bourke, J., Calache, H., Junaid, M., & Leonard, H. (2022). Factors associated with dental hospitalisations in children with intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder: a Western Australian population-based retrospective cohort study. Disability and Rehabilitation, 44(19), 5495-5503.
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2021 Bell, M. F., Lima, F., Lehmann, D., Glauert, R., Moore, H. C., & Brennan Jones, C. G. (2021). Children with secondary care episodes for otitis media have poor literacy and numeracy outcomes: a data linkage study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(20, article no. 10822), 1-13.
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2020 Lima, F., Sims, S., & O'Donnell, M. (2020). Harmful drinking is associated with mental health conditions and other risk behaviours in Australian young people. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 44(3), 201-207.
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2019 Lima, F., Shepherd, C., Wong, J., O'Donnell, M., & Marriott, R. (2019). Trends in mental health related contacts among mothers of Aboriginal children in Western Australia (1990-2013): a linked data population-based cohort study of over 40 000 children. BMJ Open, 9(7), 1-10.
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2019 O'Donnell, M., Taplin, S., Marriott, R., Lima, F., & Stanley, F. J. (2019). Infant removals: the need to address the over-representation of Aboriginal infants and community concerns of another 'stolen generation'. Child Abuse and Neglect, 90, 88-98.
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  • Supporting the mental health of Aboriginal children in care and leaving care, Department of Communities and Justice - NSW, 31/03/2024 - 30/06/2025

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