Dr Andrea Smith is a Senior Research Fellow and Daffodil Fellowship holder at the Daffodil Centre, University of Sydney, a joint venture with Cancer Council NSW. Her research interests include improving supportive care for people living with metastatic or advanced cancer, in particular metastatic breast cancer. Her research projects include improving access to professionally run metastatic breast cancer support groups and peer-peer support, understanding the role and value of the metastatic breast care nurse, increasing funding and interest in metastatic survivorship research in Australia, and quantifying Australia’s advanced and metastatic cancer population. She is also a consumer advocate having herself been diagnosed with stage IV de novo metastatic breast cancer in 2016. In 2024, she co-founded and now chairs the consumer-led advocacy organisation Metastatic Breast Cancer Action Australia (MBC Action Australia).