Project Team

Katherine Cowan

  • Steering Group Chair

Katherine is Senior Adviser to the JLA and has been a key contributor to the development of its methods and profile since 2008. She has chaired over 20 PSPs and facilitated at more than 30 priority setting workshops, including for dementia, Parkinson's, palliative care, depression, spinal cord injury and sight loss. She is passionate about the JLA method and its potential to bring disparate and often seldom-heard groups together to influence the research agenda. In the Multiple Conditions in Later Life PSP, her role is to chair the Steering Group and ensure that the priority setting process is fair, robust and inclusive