Karen Block is Associate Director of the Child and Community Wellbeing Program at the Centre for Health Equity in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. She is also the Academic Lead of the Melbourne Social Equity Institute’s research program on migration and social cohesion. Karen has worked extensively in the area of migration studies, exploring the relationship and dynamics between host communities and migrants and the complex ways in which this interaction affects health, integration, inclusion and social cohesion. Her research has strengthened understandings of factors supporting wellbeing and inclusion for refugee and migrant populations and influenced policy and practice.