Associate Investigators

Jon Glasby is a qualified social worker by background, and is now Professor of Health and Social Care at the University of Birmingham, UK.  He is the Director of ‘IMPACT’, the UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care, which works across the country to get evidence of what works used in practice to make a difference to services and to people’s lives.  Jon is a Non-Executive Director of an NHS Hospital Trust and of a local authority children protection/family support service. In 2022, he was a special adviser to the House of Lords Adult Social Care Committee.

Karinna is a Research Fellow at the Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research at the University of Melbourne. As a health economist with expertise in large administrative data, Karinna is passionate about generating robust evidence to inform health policy in Australia. Her recent research has looked at how employment and geographic variation in healthcare access health outcomes among people with disability. Karinna's research has been published in the leading health economics and medical journals including the Lancet, Health Economics, and the American Journal of Public Health. 

Johan Jarl is a health economist with extensive experience in economic evaluations, cost analysis, and register-based studies on consequences of disease and treatment. He has a particular interest in the impact of early onset disabilities on individual and family outcomes, for example in terms of labour market productivity and family formation, and how health and social intervention can improve health, societal participation, and quality of life. His work focuses on the health economic aspects of disabilities, with a particular interest in cost-effectiveness analysis and broad societal consequences.

Dr Gwynnyth Llewellyn is Professor Emerita, Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Professor Llewellyn’s research on social inequities for parents with disabilities transverses health, welfare, child protection, and legal domains and underpins legislative changes and policy implementation to remove discrimination globally. Her work on inequities for children and young people with disability includes population and administrative data studies as well as qualitative studies addressing school, family, and public space contexts. She is Co-Director of RAY Research Alliance for Youth Disability and Mental Health funded by a five-year NHMRC Synergy Grant. She is also Co-Head of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Strengthening Rehabilitation Capacity in Health Systems. With Professor Anne Kavanagh she co-led the Centre of Research Excellence in Disability and Health. She initiated the Centre for Disability Research and Policy at the University of Sydney and served as its inaugural director from 2005-2013. Professor Emerita Llewellyn will provide strategic advice to CIA Petrie and CIB Dickenson and assist in managing relationships across all levels of government.

Dr. Alriksson-Schmidt is Associate Professor in Disability and Public Health at Lund University, Sweden. She has worked at universities and federal agencies (the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) in the United States and Sweden. Most of her work relates to congenital disabilities or childhood-onset disabilities, such as cerebral palsy and spina bifida. She is currently principal investigator of a 6-year research program entitled MOVING-ON WITH CP. She is a developmental psychologist by training but also holds an MSPH in public health (focus epidemiology). She serves as vice chairperson of CP Sweden, which she co-founded in 2020.

Ary Laufer is the Chief Executive Officer Asia at WISE Employment. Ary presently leads the various WISE Asia regional organisations as well the Strategy & Research Division at WISE Employment. Part of the WISE fabric for a decade, he has also held the roles of Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Australia) as well as various Executive portfolios such as Strategy, Research and Tenders, Operational Governance, Partnerships, various Operations, in addition to People & Culture. Ary brings diverse leadership, management and operational experience in Australia, Asia Pacific, and Africa over three decades. Ary is also the WISE Employment Korea Board Representative Director since July 2023.