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The organisation was founded from within the Australasian Sleep Association (ASA), the nation’s peak scientific body representing clinicians, scientists, and researchers in the broad area of sleep, with its active support.</p><p>Since its inception, the SHF has been providing accessible, evidence-based advice to raise community awareness about sleep health through advocacy, public education and facilitation of research. Regular generation of authoritative analyses and insights about national sleep characteristics, controversies, and costs, have made the Foundation an important authority on sleep health in Australia, and the ‘go-to’ resource for media commentary.</p><p>SHF receives no government resourcing and relies on untied funding and support of its corporate partners, sponsors, members, and donations. Led by an experienced Board of Non-Executive Directors, the Foundation prides itself on its expertise and independence.</p><p>The SHF has now been operational for over 10 years. A significant number of important and innovative initiatives have been developed to strengthen our public profile and spread the sleep health message through our website and social media platforms; an ongoing program of educational information designed for the public by sleep experts; an active speaker program for the community, schools and industry; media interest with a variety of television, radio and print news items; interaction with corporate partners and other health bodies; and government engagement through advocacy partnerships and lobbying to make healthy sleep a key objective in the national health agenda.</p><p>Read more about the first 10 years of the Sleep Health Foundation <a href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64b4b7e38dda973fdbb7faf2/65110aef99334b6065e1cb1e_SHF-History-261121_WEB.pdf">here</a>.</p><figure style="padding-bottom:33.723653395784545%" class="w-richtext-align-normal w-richtext-figure-type-video"><div><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BsODqWETD6A" title="Sleep Health Foundation Celebrating 10 years"></iframe></div></figure><h3><a href="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64b4b7e38dda973fdbb7faf2/67328e45b51576111fc2bc4c_SHF%20Constitution%20November%202024.pdf">Our Constitution</a></h3></div></div><div id="w-node-_45bb0f0d-fe9f-a597-e3de-22485421edc3-b9049abf" class="related-pages-wrap hidden"><h3>Related</h3><div class="cms-related-pages w-dyn-list"><div role="list" class="w-dyn-items"><div role="listitem" class="w-dyn-item"><div class="related-article-wrapper"><a href="/about/our-mission" class="w-inline-block"><h4>Our Mission</h4></a><p>The Sleep Health Foundation is a not for profit health promotion charity that aims to raise community awareness about the value of sleep and its common disorders.</p></div></div><div role="listitem" class="w-dyn-item"><div class="related-article-wrapper"><a href="/about/our-history" aria-current="page" class="w-inline-block w--current"><h4>Our History & Constitution</h4></a><p>The Sleep Health Foundation was born out of the Australasian Sleep Association in 2009 as a public-facing health promotion charity. </p></div></div><div role="listitem" class="w-dyn-item"><div class="related-article-wrapper"><a href="/about/who-we-partner-with" class="w-inline-block"><h4>Who We Partner With</h4></a><p>As a not-for-profit health promotion charity, the Sleep Health Foundation is grateful for the support of our mission through corporate partnership.</p></div></div><div role="listitem" class="w-dyn-item"><div class="related-article-wrapper"><a href="/about/our-story" class="w-inline-block"><h4>Our Story</h4></a><p>The Sleep Health Foundation is public-facing and is the leading advocate for sleep health in the community.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></section><footer class="section footer"><div class="w-layout-blockcontainer container w-container"><div class="w-layout-grid footer-2col-grid"><div id="w-node-_300c1a28-83f7-8619-f3e3-9f65d97dda17-d97dda14" class="footer-left"><a href="#" class="footer-logo w-inline-block"><img src="https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/64b494e09bd69e8f6c465476/64b4c39016222f7b8147a3f5_shf-logo-white.png" loading="lazy" alt="Sleep Health Foundation"/></a><p class="paragraph footer">Keep up to date with the<br/>Sleep Health Foundation</p><div class="footer-sub">Sign up to our newsletter</div><div class="footer-newsletter w-form"><form id="wf-form-Footer-Newsletter" name="wf-form-Footer-Newsletter" data-name="Footer Newsletter" action="https://sleephealthfoundation.us17.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=da63acfffb9d03d87cd81d4bf&amp;id=a12af2e734&amp;f_id=00be5be0f0" method="post" class="form" data-wf-page-id="64d1bc5778cbfe9cb9049abf" data-wf-element-id="300c1a28-83f7-8619-f3e3-9f65d97dda21"><input class="footer-form-field w-input" maxlength="256" name="EMAIL" data-name="EMAIL" placeholder="Your email" type="email" id="EMAIL-3" required=""/><input type="submit" data-wait="Please wait..." class="button no-mar w-button" value="Submit"/></form><div class="newsletter-success w-form-done"><div>Thank you! 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