Melissa is the Chief Executive Officer of Queensland’s peak health consumer organisation Health Consumers Queensland. She has held governance positions in the film and television industry and health consumer organisations, for almost twenty years, including most recently a three year term on the board of Consumers Health Forum (Australia’s peak health consumer organisation). Her current appointments include the Queensland Clinical Senate and Chair of the Partnering with Consumers committee for the Australian Commission of Safety and Quality in Health Care. She is passionate about health and social services being co-designed with and for those they are intended. As a bisexual mother of two, she is particularly keen to strengthen cross-sector collaboration and support meaningful co-design of health and social services for bisexual, queer and lesbian people, queer parents and parents with transgender/gender questioning children.