Dr Terri Foran is a Sexual Health Physician and has a special interest in contraception, menopause issues and the management of sexually transmitted infections. She was previously the Medical Director of Family Planning NSW and is now in clinical practice in Darlinghurst. She is also engaged in both clinical and research work at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney. Dr Foran holds the position of Lecturer at the University of New South Wales in the School of Women’s and Children’s Health. She coordinates Phase 2 of their undergraduate Women’s Health program as well as supervising a number of modules in the Masters of Reproductive Medicine and Masters of Women’s Health Medicine Programs offered by UNSW.

Katherine is a health and science reporter with Quartz based in Washington, D.C.

Born in Long Beach, California and raised in Medford and along the North Shore of Massachusetts, Evan Fleischer is a writer-at-large. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, Slate, The Washington Post, Vice, and numerous other publications.He is also a fiction editor at Hobart Pulp.

Peter FitzSimons is a journalist and columnist with The Sydney Morning Herald.

Prof Ferguson is the Director of the Appleton Institute and a Research Professor at CQUniversity’s Adelaide campus. Prof Ferguson’s background is circadian biology and understanding how the body clock helps keep us synchronised to the world around us and what happens when we work against our clocks. Sally has spent the last fifteen years investigating the influence of circadian rhythms on human activities. Her particular focus is the interaction between work hours, sleep and wake patterns and what that means for people’s safety, health and well-being. Sally publishes, supervises students and gets out of the office as often as possible In the last 10 years this key research interest has led to Prof Ferguson asking questions about the relationship between sleep, wake and work patterns, particularly for those working shiftwork. She has worked with industry partners in mining, rail, healthcare, marine pilotage, aviation and the emergency services. Her program of research has received funding support from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), the Australian Research Council (ARC), the Bushfire CRC and the CRC for Rail Innovation.

Dr Anup Desai is a Specialist Sleep Physician with many years of broad clinical experience across a range of sleep disorders, from snoring and obstructive sleep apnoea, to insomnia, parasomnias, narcolepsy and other non respiratory sleep disorders. He is a Senior Staff Specialist at Prince of Wales Public Hospital in Randwick. He has a PhD in Sleep Medicine through the University of Sydney. He is a Medical Assessor for Respiratory and Sleep Disorders at The NSW Motor Accidents Authority and serves on their Review Panels. This complements his extensive medicolegal work, predominantly in assessing Sleep Disorders in the context of driving and fall asleep road accidents. Dr Desai maintains an active clinical private practice, reviewing patients at Sydney Sleep Centre in the city and in Randwick consulting rooms.