Dr Katrina Green
Meet SSMRF’s new CEO, Dr Katrina Green, and learn more about the experience, passion and purpose she brings to leading the Foundation and supporting medical research in our community.
Katrina Green
BSc (Biol. & Biol.Med.Sci.), Hons (Class 1), PhD
Dr Katrina Green is an executive leader with almost three decades of experience spanning medical research, higher education, philanthropy and business. With a PhD in neuroscience, she has built a career at the intersection of research, strategy, organisational development, partnerships and community impact.
Katrina served as Deputy Director (Partnerships and Outreach) and Acting Director of the Molecular Horizons Research Institute, where she helped build and shape the Institute’s strategy, funding, external engagement, and long-term development. She is an Honorary Associate Professor of the University of Wollongong and recently served as Chief Operating Officer of a health information start-up focused on improving health communication for children and families. She has held executive roles on professional societies, contracted to international government and philanthropic funding agencies, and held earlier commercial roles spanning marketing, events coordination, stakeholder engagement and business development.
She is passionate about building the support needed to translate research excellence into meaningful outcomes, including better diagnostics and therapeutics, and enhanced understanding of disease mechanisms that lead to prevention and cures, that ultimately improve the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.