Kate is a non-executive director with a passion for ethics, mental health and data management and security. She is a Human Research Ethics Committee member at both the University of Queensland (UQ) and Queensland Health’s Forensic and Scientific Services, is a member of UQ’s Ethics Advisory Group, and is also Chair of the Governance, Risk and Ethics Committee at Making Good Alliance. Kate has been working with Beyond Blue for over four years as a Project Steering Committee member for two of their national programs, Be You and The Way Back Support Service. She has a background in the disability sector and spent many years as Business Process and Information Manager for a large public sector organisation. In 2012, Kate was diagnosed with Fibromuscular Dysplasia, a vascular disease that leads to narrowing, dissection or aneurysm of medium-sized arteries.