Heather Mabry National Suicide Prevention Conference 2026

Heather Mabry

Heather Mabry is a Social Worker with 18+ years of experience across clinical services, mental health, crisis response, and higher education. She is currently the Incident Manager at the University of Sydney, responsible for coordinating the wellbeing response to all student critical incidents. With over 12 years in higher education, Heather has held leadership roles across a broad range of services and initiatives that underpin the student experience, including psychological and physical health, safety and wellbeing, risk management, policy advising, and clinical governance. She is passionate about helping teams navigate uncertainty and make smarter decisions in complex times, aligning risk, strategy, and purpose to create safer outcomes for university communities. A passionate advocate for thoughtful, safe, and action-biased approaches to suicide prevention and postvention, Heather has established at a national level broad and diverse networks through her contributions to mental health and suicide prevention initiatives. She is committed to helping universities think and act more strategically about suicide prevention, bringing together leadership, systems thinking, and collaboration to drive responses that are effective, evidence-informed, and reflect the complexity of risk management in higher education.