Jennifer Smith-Merry

Dr Smith-Merry is Associate Professor in the Sydney School of Health Sciences within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Jen is Director of the Centre for Disability Research and Policy (CDRP), a multi-disciplinary centre whose mission is to make life better for people with disability in Australia by translating research to policy and practice.

Jen is chief investigator on multiple grants which evaluate or develop policy and services in disability and mental health. She works closely with people with lived experience of disability and has a strong interest lived experience-informed policy and service design.