Miss Katherine Petrie

Dr Petrie is a UNSW Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Black Dog Institute, currently working within the Workplace Mental Health Team. Dr Petrie has twelve years’ experience in the field of  mental health, suicide prevention and digital mental health research at UNSW. During this time, Dr Petrie has worked on a range of projects at a coronial, epidemiological and clinical level, including projects prioritising lived experience. She was conferred her PhD in 2024 for her thesis investigating mental disorder and suicidality among Australian doctors using large national datasets. Dr Petrie has extensive experience in the application of both quantitative and qualitative methods to suicide prevention, workplace mental health, and intervention development and evaluation. Her primary research interest is in understanding and addressing the risk and protective factors for mental ill-health and suicidality, particularly in high-risk workforces and vulnerable populations, and the translation of this evidence into practice. A particular interest and area of expertise is exploring and addressing mental illness and suicidality among frontline workforces, particularly healthcare professionals. My career objective centres around knowledge generation and translation into policy and practice to prevent mental disorder and suicidality among the general population as well as the working population, in particular at-risk occupations and vulnerable groups.