Sabrina Pit

Sabrina has worked in the education, workforce, ageing, research and health sector for 20+ years. She has published over 100 papers on floods, mental health, (rural) health workforce, health professional education and training, employability, ageing, drug use, and digital health.

Sabrina is a standardisation expert. She works internationally and nationally on standardisation practices and consensus building to improve trade and consumer confidence in ageing, work and digital technology on global and national scale. She is the current chair of Standards Australia Mirror Board - Ageing Societies and Convenor of the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee Ageing Societies- Working Group Ageing Workforce and active member of the International Organization for Standardization of TC 260 Human Resources Management. She is the Eurasia Coordinator for the Human Capital Impact Alliance and co-convenor of the Australasian Association of Gerontology Ageing, Workforce and Education Special Interest Group.

She currently works for Dietitians Australia. Previously she has worked as a consultant on issues related to ageing and workforce in the health sector. She has worked for Carers Australia as Senior Policy Advisor, and the NSW Rural Doctors Network as Research and Knowledge Translation Analyst. Previously, she was the Workforce Research Stream Leader and Lead Academic, Clinical and Educational Research at the University Centre for Rural Health (University of Sydney and Western Sydney University) 2014-2020. She has supervised and taught over 200 clinicians, medical, nursing, and allied health students how to do research, including EBM, qualitative and quantitative research methods and biostatistics.

Sabrina has worked in the private and not-for-profit sector. She has managed a medical practice and has held non-executive board positions with an aged care provider (2012-2016) and a disability service provider since 2018. She was a member of the Steering Group, Standards Australia Asia-Pacific Economic Cooparation Silver Economy Project and an Australian representative on the International Standards Organisation/Technical Management Board Group/Strategic Advisory Group on Ageing Societies. She is a board member of Dementia Inclusive Ballina Alliance, responsible for grants and the Northern Rivers Younger Onset Dementia Carer Support Group.

She has a PhD (Health Behaviour), a MSc, a Grad Cert Teaching (Higher ed.) and a Dip (WHS).