Erin Longbottom is the Nursing Unit Manager of St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney’s Homeless Health Service, where she leads a multidisciplinary outreach team delivering essential healthcare to people experiencing homelessness across the inner city. Working on the front line, Erin provides compassionate, person-centred care to some of the community’s most underserved individuals, many of whom live with complex, chronic, or untreated health conditions.

With more than 20 years of nursing experience spanning the USA, New Zealand and Australia, Erin brings deep clinical expertise in both critical and community care. She has been instrumental in developing and implementing innovative models of outreach, including St Vincent’s Mobile Health Clinic, to improve health access and outcomes for people experiencing homelessness.

A passionate advocate for social justice, health equity, and the fundamental right to housing, Erin works collaboratively with people with lived experience, health providers, and government agencies to drive systemic change. In recent years, she has championed reform for non-resident individuals without access to Medicare, income, or support services—who make up around 20% of Sydney’s rough sleepers.

Erin is deeply committed to creating a more inclusive, just and equitable health system and to advancing efforts to make homelessness in Australia rare, brief, and non-recurring.