Victoria J Palmer

I am Co-Director of the ALIVE National Centre for Mental Health Research Translation established through a NHMRC special initiative in mental health investment (2021-2026) and more recently funded by the Medical Research Future Fund (2025-2030) to lead Casting the Net for What Matters- the ALIVE National Centre Consortium for Equitable Wellbeing and Mental Health Systems Transformation I trained in the Humanities and Arts in applied ethics, participatory design and narrative theory. I am Professor of Co-Design and Primary Care Mental Health in the Department of General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Melbourne. I established a Co-Design Living Labs program in 2017 with near to 2000 members with lived-experience of mental ill-health and emotional distress who take part in end to end research design to translation through the research and networks of the ALIVE National Centre. We operate an Implementation and Translation Network, and a Next Generation Researcher Network with the Lived Experience Research Collective to grow research capacity. Our work is focused on community led models of prevention across the lifecourse to account for missed life years in priority populations and implement responses to structural inequalities.