The Freemasons Centre for Male Health & Wellbeing is pleased to formally announce the secondment of Professor Petrina Coventry BEd, Dip HRM, MEthics, MBA, Fellow AICD, from GPEx to the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) in the role of Director of Industry Partnership and Research Impact.
GPEx is an established health, education and technology organisation with strong links to primary care in South Australia. Professor Coventry is Director, Aboriginal Health & Research at GPEx. GPEx is funded to deliver the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Strategic Plan in SA as part of the Commonwealth funded Australian General Practice Training Program.
FCMHW and SAHMRI are honoured to be partnering with GPEx to strengthen alliances with business, industry and government to ensure relevance, sustainability and pathways to translation for its research, including commercialisation of research content into community, health care and industry programs for impact.
Petrina has worked with networks, companies and industries locally and globally to transform them into more contemporary, innovative and sustainable models. Her expertise includes human resources, governance and ethics, community relations and communications, change management, quality systems, sustainability, innovation and commercialisation of research, and leading education and program delivery in the domain areas of healthcare, education, first nations people, gender representation and inclusion.
Professor Coventry will Deputy Chair the Business and Industry Advisory Board for the Centre. The Chairperson is Dr Roger Sexton AM. Dr Sexton has been associated with the Centre since 2012 when he became the Principal Patron and Chairman of the Board of Patrons for the former Freemasons Foundation Centre for Men’s Health.
A formal announcement by GPEx and SAHMRI will be made early in 2022.
Contact:
Professor Petrina Coventry
Director of Industry Partnerships & Research Impact
Freemasons Centre for Male Health & Wellbeing, SAHMRI
Director, Aboriginal Health and Research, GPEx
petrina.coventry@sahmri.com