What i do
I work to strengthen trust in our health system, and ensure that the lived-experiences of health consumers are elevated to influence decision-making and drive positive change in health.
I am also a young person living with complex chronic illness and disability, and am the recipient of two liver transplants.
I pair my own lived-experience with a collaborative design approach to stakeholder facilitation to help organisations translate lived-experience contributions into innovative and impactful change in health care.
I am an experienced disability and complex chronic illness advocate, collaborative design and lived-experience and practicing partnerships consultant, mental health ambassador, speaker, health strategist, and advisor to multiple Australian Commonwealth Government departments and agencies.
“nothing about us without us”
Services
In addition to my health consumer leadership and advoacy I provide a range of professional services.
Collaborative design and practicing partnerships
I work with you to design and implement effective and sustainable governance, cultures, and frameworks for engagement and collaboration with lived-experience in health. This collaborative approach is a powerful way to build constructive and respectful dialogues between stakeholders, and ensure that the work you do benefits from key insights to make a positive impact.
Speaker and panelist
I am an influential leader in lived-experience advocacy, collaborative health reform and innovation, and a digital health. I’ve been featured as a keynote speaker and panelist internationally at health and public sector events and forums hosted. I leverage my own experiences and expertise to inspire and equip people and organisations to transform health.
Committee membership
I hold and have held membership and chairing roles on multiple District, State/Territory, and Federal Government, peak body, and expert advisory and steering committees. Through those memberships, I have made significant contributions to health service, policy, legislation, and strategy reform in Australia.
Contact me
let’s speak up, connect, empower, and transform health together!
Work with me
Is your organisation working on a project in health? Are you looking for a speaker with a powerful story to get your peers thinking? Or are you trying to support engagement with diverse stakeholders?
support for advocates
Professional and peer networking as an advocate can be daunting, so below is a link to one of the most supportive health consumer peaks I’ve had the pleasure of working with.
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