Professor Cathy Vaughan

Co-Head of Co-Design and Consumer Involvement Node

Cathy is Director of the Nossal Institute for Global Health, Chair of Global Health at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Women’s Health. In addition to her internationally recognised program of research on violence against women in Australia, Asia, and the Pacific, she has extensive experience in working to co-design health and social interventions in a range of complex settings with members of migrant, refugee, and faith communities; people with disability; service providers and health practitioners; and women with lived experience of violence. She has particular expertise in qualitative and visual research methods, in community-based participatory research, and in strengthening research capacity.