Katherine Harding is a Professor of Allied Health in the Allied Health Clinical Research Office at Eastern Health, one of La Trobe University's Academic Research Collaborative in Health (ARCH) sites in Melbourne. She began her working life as an Occupational Therapist in acute inpatient and community settings, before completing a PhD in 2013 in access and triage systems for outpatient and community health services. She has a strong interest in research capacity building in health services, and recently completed a Translating Research into Practice (TRIP Fellowship) funded by the Medical Research Future Fund.