Adjunct Professor Karrie Long

Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer, Safer Care Victoria

Keynote Speaker

Adjunct Professor Karrie Long is a visionary nursing leader with more than 30 years’ experience driving health innovation across health and the nursing profession to ensure safer and more effective patient care. As Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officer she provides strategic clinical and professional leadership and advice to various Ministers, across government and the broader health and hospital sector. Karrie brings with her an expansive knowledge of public health in Australia through her roles as a clinician, digital health designer, researcher, board director and interim Chief Nursing Officer at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. She has a Graduate Diploma in Advanced Clinical Nursing (Rural Critical Care) and a Master of Public Health. She has an adjunct position with Deakin University School of Nursing and Midwifery (Alumnus). Karrie was awarded the Women’s Leadership Scholarship to the London Business School Senior Executive Program 2024 and is a 2022-23 Florence Nightingale Foundation Global Scholar where she was awarded the Inaugural Dame Yvonne Moores Scholarship. Karrie is the current Chair of the Australian Council of Chief Nurse and Midwifery Officers.