Helen Mitchell National Suicide Prevention Conference 2025

Helen Mitchell

Helen has more than 30 years’ experience across the health sector, specialising in health promotion, co-design for impact, community engagement, research and evaluation and development work across government, private and university sectors at a local, national, and international level. Helen has qualification in Nursing and Health Promotion and has completed a Masters of Science (Public Health) and a recently Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). Helen’s excellent intuitive communication skills along with her ability to facilitate strong, long-term relationships across sectors, contribute to her ability to realise strategic opportunities that benefit all organisations with which she works. Helen is widely recognised for her ability to manage complex change management agendas and work with stakeholders to find the best solutions at a policy level for the system and the consumer. She applies her substantial experiences and skills to solve problems using logic, evidence-based framework and by building trust with stakeholders through good communication and delivering outcomes. Helen has a passion for prevention work with experience in prevention projects spanning health and chronic conditions, overweight and obesity, alcohol and other drugs and mental health.