Professor Lisa Wood leads the Home2Health team at the University of Notre Dame Australia, a multi-disciplinary team committed to reducing health inequalities, particularly among people experiencing homelessness. Lisa has decades of public health experience and brings a compassionate social determinants lens to her work. Lisa champions the importance of research being grounded in the needs and evidence gaps seen by people with lived experience and frontline services. Her research and advocacy often focuses on issues that have been largely invisible in mainstream population data or research, such as homeless deaths, pregnancy and homelessness, and most recently, the acute climate vulnerability of people without a home. Lisa has strong collaborations with NSW colleagues around reducing healthcare barriers for people experiencing homelessness and mitigating extreme weather vulnerability, and she is a founding member of the recently established Australian Climate & Homelessness Alliance (ACHA). Lisa is a tireless advocate for research being relevant and useful to the real world, and the need for academia to go beyond “the ivory tower”.