Dr Bowers is a Registered Children’s Nurse (United Kingdom) and Registered General Nurse (Australia). She currently works as a Research Fellow in the Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre, within the Centre for Healthcare Transformation at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Her research focus is paediatric palliative care, and she has a particular interest in health services research, large data and medicinal cannabis. Dr Bowers currently leads a team conducting a research project involving a needs analysis and gap-analysis in the delivery of Paediatric Palliative Care across Australia, is a Chief Investigator and Project Manager for a medicinal cannabis clinical trial and is an Associate Investigator and Project Manager for the evaluation of the Queensland Paediatric Palliative Care Outreach Collaborative. Dr Bowers is also a Director for the Australian College of Children and Young People’s Nurses, a member of the 2022 Palliative Care Nurses Australia Conference Organising Committee and member of the MASCC Pediatric and Survivorship Study Groups.