Patient Partner, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI); Australia

Liz is a Patient Partner with the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI). Her role builds consumer engagement capability within the organization’s scope of work. She has 20 years’ experience working within the NSW health system in consumer participation, education and program design. During her 10 years as Senior Consumer Advisor for HNELHD (Mental Health), she set up the first Consumer Participation Unit in the state; used systemic advocacy to drive human-centred health care; Co-led innovations and reform including Police and Ambulance Early Access to Mental Health Triage via Telehealth and Towards Zero Suicide.

Liz has lived experience of mental illness and suicidality as both a consumer and a carer.