McCarthy is a cancer nurse and the Dean Research of the Faculty of Health, Griffith University. McCarthy’s inclusive ethos with end-users and stakeholders, combined with her clinical credibility, inform the Women’s Wellness after Cancer Research Program. This consumer-driven research program reduces aims to reduce women’s chronic disease risk after cancer treatment through lifestyle modification in a resource- and evidence-effective way. McCarthy and her multidisciplinary team recently completed data collection for the MRFF-funded ACUMEN study, which investigates the role of structured exercise after gynaecological cancer, and have just commenced the intervention phase of the NHMRC-funded RECENTRE study, which examines lifestyle change (diet, exercise, distress management) after treatment. RECENTRE will include a large cohort of women treated for gynaecological cancer, including (unusually) women with Stage III-IV cancers.