Elaina is a non-Indigenous Research Assistant in the First Nations Cancer and Wellbeing Research team at the University of Queensland's School of Public Health. Elaina graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Health Science (Nutrition) and a Master of Dietetics in 2020.

Elaina has provided a wide range of research and administrative supports to a number of projects within the team. She is currently working on the Wellbeing Research Program. Elaina also works in a clinical capacity as a Dietitian at the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health.