Associate Professor Kate Fila

Kate is a Principal Research Fellow at Orygen, the Centre for Youth Mental Health at The University of Melbourne where she leads a program of research regarding social inclusion and mental health. Kate’s research focusses on improving understanding about the role of social determinants such as social exclusion in the prevention, treatment and ongoing management of mental ill-health, particularly in early stages for young people.

Kate has developed a measure of social inclusion, the Filia Social Inclusion Measure (F-SIM16), which has been validated in younger and older people with and without mental ill-health. The F-SIM16 is now used in research, clinical and policy settings, and is being validated in multiple countries and languages.