Anne McKenzie

Anne McKenzie has worked as the Consumer Advocate at The University of Western Australia, School of Population Health and the Telethon Kids Institute since 2004.

Anne is now the Head of the Consumer and Community Health Research Network. The Consumer and Community Health Research Network expands The University of Western Australia School of Population Health and Telethon Kids Institute’s Consumer and Community Involvement Program across the eighteen Western Australian Health Translation Network‘s Partner Agencies. The Consumer and Community Health Research Network brings together consumers, community members and researchers to work in partnership to make decisions about health research priorities, policy and practice.

Anne's role is to support and facilitate active consumer and community involvement in the research and teaching programs in all partner agencies. Providing training on the ‘how and why’ of implementing consumer and community involvement in research has been a core function of the Consumer and Community Health Research Network.

Training workshops, specifically for researchers were originally developed in collaboration with UK consultant Bec Hanley, in response to requests from researchers, students, and clinicians. Since 2007, 70 workshops for consumers and researchers have been held across Australia and attended by over 1380 people.

Anne is also a senior consumer representative for Consumers Health Forum of Australia and former Chair of the Health Consumers Council of WA and serves on key national and state committees. Anne was recently awarded an Order of Australia Medal for 20 years of service in the area of health consumer advocacy.