Dr Michelle Blanchard

Deputy CEO, SANE Australia
and Director, Anne Deveson Research Centre

Dr Michelle Blanchard is the Deputy CEO at SANE Australia and the founding Director of SANE’s Anne Deveson Research Centre, which partners with people with complex mental health issues and their family, friends and colleagues to conduct research to drive policy and social change. 

Michelle also holds an appointment as a Honorary Senior Fellow in the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Prior to joining SANE, Michelle held senior roles at the Butterfly Foundation for Eating Disorders and the Young and Well Cooperative Research Centre. She is also a Non-Executive Director of preventative youth mental health organisation batyr.