Clare Villalba

Clare is a service designer and researcher. Her PhD research is situated at the intersection of design, health and innovation. Her passion for people and wellbeing has led her to study why preventable health conditions still affect people today, looking closely at the preventable eye disease, diabetic retinopathy. Clare collaborates with the people at the centre of healthcare challenges to facilitate meaningful change and enable wellbeing, working closely with the Southern Queensland Centre of Excellence for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healthcare. Clare also led the human-focused innovation stream of the Eye Health Innovation Strategy being implemented by the Medical and Healthcare Robotics Team at Queensland University of Technology.