Kerryn Pennell
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Chief of Strategy and Engagement


Kerryn Pennell is Chief of Strategy and Engagement at Orygen. She and her team are responsible for leading Orygen’s strategy and policy development and building key relationships and partnerships in Australia and overseas.

Kerryn has worked in clinical and leadership positions for over 20 years and has played a pivotal role in developing responses to early psychosis and youth mental health in Australia.

Over the years Kerryn has and continues to serve on a number of national and international committees in the area of youth mental health, ethics, health practitioner regulation and mental health workforce.

Kerryn was a scholar in the Leadership Enhancement in Health Care and Management Program at Mount Sinai Medical Centre in NYC and a recipient of a Creswick Foundation Fellowship. Her peers recently appointed her as a Foundation Fellow of the Australian College of Social Work.

She was a Founding Member of the International Early Psychosis Association and the International Association for Youth Mental Health. Kerryn is also a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne.