Karena Conroy

Karena Conroy leads the Consumer and Community Involvement Program at The George Institute for Global Health, having established this central support structure from the ground up. She is a health research facilitator and occasional researcher, with an educational background in the social sciences, psychology, and a PhD in Health.

Her work focuses on improving and increasing consumer and community involvement in health research across the Institute and the wider health and medical research sector. Karena brings together knowledge and experience from both health research and lived experience of health conditions, enabling her to bridge these perspectives effectively.

Karena is committed to involving community members in meaningful, impactful ways that align with best practice. She is passionate about improving population health and believes that working collaboratively with those affected by health research is key to achieving better outcomes.