Dr Julia Dray is a Lecturer in Speech Pathology, and Project Manager on the NurtureNextGen project in Genetic Counselling at the University of Technology Sydney. Dr Dray’s prior postdoctoral roles focussed on lived experience research in mental health and evaluations of complex implementation science based approaches to improve health and mental health care for reduction of modifiable health risk behaviours and associated chronic disease. Dr Dray is passionate about enabling people to embed lived-experience in research; recognise their strengths and available wider community protective factors; to develop and maintain positive mental health, development, and life trajectories; breaking disadvantage, and; research and teaching relating to effective mental health and health promotion, prevention and behaviour change initiatives to improve the health of local communities.