Dr Leanne Rowe is a general practitioner and a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne Department of General Practice and the Monash University Department of Psychological Medicine. She has worked extensively with young people, particularly in the Geelong area in Victoria, and is highly respected for her work in adolescent health and education.Recently the Wathaurong Aboriginal Cooperative allowed her to work with a group of young people from their community to produce URGENT. A core group of teenagers, Joleen Ryan, Megan Torpey, Julia Torpey, Tegan Watson and Zac Brennan, wrote the story and encouraged more than twenty other young indigenous and non-indigenous people to contribute personal accounts of their lives as well as poetry, artwork and photography.
