Brian earned his Ph.D. in Criminology from Griffith University, as well as an M.Ed. in Youth and Family Extension Education and a B.S. in Administration of Justice, both from Penn State University, as well as a graduate certificate in School Violence Prevention from the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to his nearly 20-year tenure in academia, Dr Bumbarger served as a probation and parole officer, Drug and Gangs Specialist for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and Project Manager for the Pennsylvania Office for Safe Schools.

For nearly two decades, Brian has conducted research and advised policymakers on the dissemination, implementation, and sustainment of evidence-based programs and practices to promote positive youth development and strengthen families and communities, and to prevent and reduce delinquency and youth crime. Dr Bumbarger has served on federal Expert Panels for the U.S Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Centers for Disease Control, and the Administration for Children and Families, and regularly provides testimony before state legislatures, and Congress. Through the Fulbright Specialist Program and the Agency for International Development, he has provided consultation to the governments of Canada, Ireland, Sweden, South Africa, Cyprus, and Australia. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the international Society for Prevention Research (SPR), and was the recipient of the Society’s 2014 Translational Science Award for his research on dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of both the National Prevention Science Coalition and the Coalition for the Promotion of Behavioral Health. He is a member of the American Society of Criminology and a founding member of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration.

Brian currently serves as a Public Systems Capacity Building Consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation, supporting the Foundation’s work scaling evidence-based policy and practice in Alabama, Utah, and Rhode Island; a consultant to the Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, supporting that state’s Intergenerational Poverty Initiative; a faculty member of the California Child Welfare Directors Training Institute; consultant to the Administration for Children and Families supporting the Child Welfare Capacity Building Center for the States; and a consultant to the Centers for Disease Control’s National Youth Violence Prevention Initiative, working with public health agencies in eighteen of the largest U.S. cities. In Australia, Dr Bumbarger serves on the project team of the CREATE collective impact project, a partnership between Griffith University, the Australian Department of Social Services, and several national NGO’s to strengthen the impact of the Communities for Children initiative through prevention science and data-informed decision making.

Louise’s key policy interests include combating climate change and economic inequality, increasing women’s workforce participation, improving maternity services and early childhood education, ending all discrimination against LGBTI Australians, population and development issues and closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

Louise is proud of Labor’s record in government and has advocated and supported a range of Labor’s reforms in the Senate, including improvements to maternity services, fair work legislation, same-sex law reform, action on climate change, regulating political donations, reforming the AusAID family planning guidelines, paid parental leave, health system reform, enhancing migrant workers’ rights, the stimulus package, the rights of refugees and better consumer protection laws.

Louise entered the Federal Parliament with a strong background in community activism and a history of parliamentary service at the State level. In 2001, she was the youngest woman ever elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council.  As an MLC, she served as the Chair of the Council’s Environment and Public Affairs Committee and as the Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians’ Australia regional representative.

As a member of both the Gallop and Carpenter Labor Governments, Louise chaired a Greenhouse Stakeholder Group and a review of Adoption Legislation for the State Government, was the secretary of the Western Australian State Labor Caucus, and a key member of the State Government’s Ministerial Taskforce on lesbian and gay law reform.