Dr Stacy Tzoumakis is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Mental Health at UNSW Sydney. She is a multidisciplinary researcher whose work spans criminology, psychiatry, public health, child development and child protection.

Her research takes a developmental life-course approach to the intergenerational transmission of maltreatment, mental health problems and antisocial behaviour, with a particular interest in vulnerable mothers and the earliest developmental periods. She is an investigator on the NSW Child Development Study, a population-based, intergenerational record linkage study of over 90,000 children and their parents, using justice, health, welfare and education records. Working closely with government agencies, she aims to inform prevention, service delivery and policy for vulnerable children and families.