Clare supports governments around the world to design, implement, and defend effective public health laws aimed at preventing noncommunicable diseases.

Her work focuses on strengthening legal frameworks, safeguarding health measures from challenge, and promoting policy coherence across public health, human rights, and trade and investment law. Clare joined the McCabe Centre in 2017.

Based in Melbourne, Clare holds degrees in law and economics from the University of Queensland and a Master of Public and International Law from the University of Melbourne.

She brings interdisciplinary background in public health, international law, and legal research. 

Before joining the McCabe Centre, Clare worked as a Legal Consultant on the Im Chaem Defence Team at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) and worked as a Legal Research Officer at the Supreme Court of Queensland Library.

Publications:

Using legal capacity building to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 3.4: a global case study (2026) 

Harnessing law for global noncommunicable disease control: evaluating a legal training program, 2014-23 (2025)  

10 Years of the WHO FCTC Knowledge Hub on Legal Challenges (2024)

WCRF Blog, How Ireland beat the odds to introduce cancer warning labels on alcohol (2024)

Using human rights law to progress alcohol control (2020)