CRCATSIH Program Leader: Leisa McCarthy

Program 2: Healthy Communities and Settings

Leisa McCarthy is an Aboriginal woman from Central Australia with experience in working at various levels of government and in non-government settings. Her range of skills and knowledge includes public health nutrition; population-based strategies for chronic disease; policy development, monitoring and review; program and project development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation; and health industry networks (government and non-government sectors), particularly in public health and primary healthcare, as well as networks outside the health sector that impact upon and influence health status.