Associate Professor Karen Hazell-Raine is an experienced interdisciplinary health service researcher, leader, and clinician. She has a robust academic and healthcare sector track record in leadership, Policy, service development, and research and evaluation. Her scope of practice demonstrates a strong interdisciplinary and research translation focus in the context of diversity.
Associate Professor Hazell-Raine maintains enthusiasm for collaborative interdisciplinary healthcare research and innovation, and teaching and learning. She is a Registered Nurse, has a PhD in Medicine (Psychiatry) and Master’s Degrees in both Counselling (Psychotherapy) and Mental Health (Infant).

Associate Professor Hazell-Raine’s research interests are inspired through extensive clinical experience and interdisciplinary healthcare research and teaching. Her work is founded on understanding that parental personality, mental health and the emotional quality of early relational experiences (from conception to age five – the first 2000 days) shape brain development and establish pathways of health, interpersonal wellbeing, education and career capabilities across the lifespan and future generations. In the spirit of aiming to simultaneously optimise both maternal/parental and child mental health, a particular focus of her work is to strengthen perinatal mental health screening and related service development centred on keeping mothers, their infant and family together through targeted care pathways. Associate Professor Hazell-Raine was awarded the Inaugural Elaine Tolley Medal for Mental Health Research for her Doctoral work.