Professor Reema Harrison (BSc hons Psychology; MSc Health Psychology; PhD in Psychology of Patient Safety) is a translational health services researcher who leads the Healthcare Engagement and Equity Research team at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation. Professor Harrison is Adjunct Professor at the UNSW School of Population Health and has formal affiliations with the University of Leeds, UK.

Her program of research, in partnership with health services across Australasia, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, investigates how increasing stakeholder engagement can contribute to improved healthcare quality, experiences and outcomes. Her work has sought to generate, investigate and evaluate models of care through a lens of diversity, specifically in relation to culturally and linguistically diverse communities and people with intellectual disabilities.

Professor Harrison’s impactful work has been recognised through more than 15 international, national and local awards. Her multi-award-winning CanEngage Project, funded by NHMRC Ideas and Cancer Australia has received recognition for its impact in improving equitable outcomes in cancer services in the 2025 Robert Wears Patient Safety Leadership Award and the 2023 NSW Premiers Award for Improving Equitable Outcomes through Cancer Research. As part of the CanEngage Project, Professor Harrison established the CanEngage Network, which brings together consumers with lived experience of cancer from diverse backgrounds to design and collaborate in research.

With a background in Psychology, Professor Harrison has devised and validated tools to evaluate patient and clinician experiences of care in a range of contexts. Funded by the 2023 MRFF Consumer Led Research scheme, her Listen to Me Project has co-produced first of its kind accessible patient-reported experience measures (ePREMs) for and with people with intellectual disabilities to use in hospital care. She has also published on the use and quality of change management methodologies, peer support, mentorship and co-design approaches for creating change to enhance healthcare experiences and outcomes.