Sandra Sonego is a health services researcher and doctoral candidate at Western Sydney University’s Translational Health Research Institute, with a decade of experience across qualitative, mixed-methods, and biomedical research. Her current work focuses on patient navigation to reduce inequities in cancer care for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Australia. She has a track record of peer-reviewed publication spanning implementation science, supportive care, and neuroscience, with methodological strengths in systematic review, community-based co-design, qualitative data analysis, and multi-stakeholder research coordination. She is a contributor to international consensus initiatives in cancer navigation and a researcher on an MRFF-funded survivorship cancer navigation program co-design project (PEARL).