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Associate Professor Prue Cormie is an accredited exercise physiologist whose research and clinical work focuses on the application of exercise as medicine for the management of cancer. She aims to enhance the lives of people with cancer through innovative research and effectively translating research into practice.

With an academic background in English and Creative Writing, Maria is endlessly curious about mental health, bioethics, and genetics. She is passionate about research and delivering high-quality, reliable content to readers. Before joining the team at MNT, Maria worked as a literature and communication skills teacher, postgraduate ambassador, and freelanced as a writer and copy editor. You can follow Maria on Twitter .

Covers: Really anything that’s interesting! But my specific beat is in science and tech. I specialize in drugs, addiction and mental health. Doesn’t Cover: Breaking news that’s already on every big network.

Professor Dianne Campbell is the Chair of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at Children’s Hospital Westmead, Sydney and immediate past Head of the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney. She is the immediate past Chair of the Paediatric Subcommittee for Australian Society for Clinical Allergy and Immunology (ASCIA). She is a member of the WUN in-FLAME network and a CI in the NHMRC centre for research excellent in Paediatric Food Allergy. She completed a PhD at Melbourne University and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Stanford University, researching in the field of childhood atopic disease (atopic dermatitis and asthma). She has extensive experience in overseeing and developing paediatric graduate and postgraduate curriculum. She has active roles in clinical Allergy and Immunology, Allergy research and Medical Education. Current research areas include: Mechanisms and treatment of childhood atopic dermatitis which focus on T regulatory cell dysfunction in atopic dermatitis; the immuno-biology of FPIES and; the primary prevention and induction of tolerance in food allergy.

Denis Campbell is health policy editor for the Guardian and the Observer. He has written about the NHS, public health and medicine since 2007 and shares health-writing duties with Sarah Boseley, the health editor

Journalist on the Guardian, writing about health, medicine and dodgy practices

Paul Biegler graduated from Monash University with an MBBS in 1987, specialised in Emergency Medicine, and practiced for two decades. He was awarded Masters (2002) and PhD (2008) degrees from Monash University’s Centre for Human Bioethics. His book The Ethical Treatment of Depression: Autonomy through Psychotherapy (MIT Press 2011) won the Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics. He won the 2012 Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Prize for an op-ed in the Sydney Morning Herald on cognitive biases in climate scepticism and a Radio National interview on the treatment of depression.