Director, Partners in Care, Health Quality and Safety Commission, Wellington; New Zealand

Dr Chris Walsh is the Director, Partners in Care, the New Zealand Health Quality Safety Commission’s consumer engagement and participation programme. Chris has personal experience of breast cancer and through this has become involved with a number of health and disability consumer groups. She has been a consumer representative in executive positions and provided a consumer voice at many health and disability forums locally and internationally.

Her consumer work was recognised in 2010 when she was awarded a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year’s honours for her contribution to women’s health.