Kate Brady has had a distinguished career in disaster recovery operations, programming, and research. She is the senior research fellow for the University of New South Wales’s How We Survive initiative, an honorary senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne, and the technical adviser to Australian Red Cross Emergency Services, where she established and led the disaster recovery program for 12 years.
Most of Brady’s work focuses on what people find helpful and unhelpful after disasters. Throughout her career, Brady has significantly influenced State and National emergency management policy and has an international profile in collective trauma, resilience, and disaster recovery programming and policy. Brady is a co-author of the Australian Disaster Recovery Framework and the Australian Community Recovery Handbook and was an advisor in the development of the National Disaster Mental Health Framework. In 2021, she became the host of ABC’s podcast After the Disaster.