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Karin Barron

Executive Director System Integration and Innovation

Karin is the Executive Director for Health System Integration and Innovation at NQPHN. She has more than 19 years' experience in the primary health care sector, commencing at the Divisions of General Practice in 2004.

Karin has experience across a number of primary health care areas including chronic and complex care management, education and workforce optimisation, and clinical data and quality improvement.

She is also experienced in implementing new models of care that support providers to improve individual and community health outcomes.

Karin is committed to making health services and systems integrated and person-centred across North Queensland.

Northern Queensland Primary Health Network acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia’s First Nation Peoples and the Traditional Custodians of this land.

We respect their continued cultural and spiritual connection to country, waters, kin, and community.

We also pay our respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging as the custodians of knowledge and lore.

We are committed to making a valued contribution to the wellbeing of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of northern Queensland.

NQPHN’s offices are proudly on Gimuy-Walubara Yidinji and Yirrganydji Country (Cairns), Bindal and Wulgurukaba Country (Townsville), and Yuwibara Country (Mackay).