Susanna Every-Palmer is a New Zealand academic and forensic psychiatrist, and is a full professor at the University of Otago, specialising in mental health and achieving better outcomes for people with schizophrenia.
In 2008 she was awarded RANZCP Fellowship and gained an Advanced Certificate in Forensic Psychiatry two years later.
[1] In 2019 Every-Palmer completed a PhD titled Clozapine and the gastrointestinal tract at the University of Otago, having been awarded the University of Otago PhD Research Prize for Clinical Research in 2018.
[1] She led research that showed better immediate and longer-term outcomes for emergency mental health call-outs when co-response models were used, that is, when police and ambulance responders were accompanied by mental health services.
Together with Oliver Sutherland, who was one of the first whistleblowers of the abuse, Every-Palmer has written about the implications for modern psychiatry arising out of the Commission's findings.