Dr Katie Allen is married with four children and, prior to becoming a Member of Parliament, was a paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital for 28 years, a Professor at the University of Melbourne and the University of Manchester and Director of the Australian Centre of Food and Allergy Research. Katie has also been on the Board at Cabrini Hospital and Chairman of Melbourne Girls Grammar School.
Katie has published more than 300 scientific papers and has been Director of the Population Health Research Theme at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She was elected as an inaugural Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and has been internationally recognised for her work at the World Health Organisation and the US National Academy of Science.
Katie currently sits on the joint standing committees for Trade and Investment; the National Broadband Network; the Parliamentary Library; Industry, Innovation, Science and Resources and Communications and the Arts.
Katie is also co convenor of the Parliamentary Friends of UNICEF, Parliamentary Friends of Child and Adolescent Health and Parliamentary Friends of Hemochromatosis, Parliamentary Friends of Young People, Parliamentary Friends of Cancer Care and Cure and the recently launched Parliamentary Friends of Medical Research.