Laura McCaughey is a Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Research Fellow working at the ithree institute (infection, immunology and innovation) at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and at the Biochemistry department at the University of Oxford. Research Areas include: Microbiology, Antibiotics, Bacteria, Antibiotic resistance, Drug discovery

Kevin Mathews is a contributor to Care2.com.

Peter Lusted is a journalist with the ABC News team in Melbourne covering news and sport. Peter has previously worked at ABC NewsRadio and 2UE.

Francisco López-Muñoz, MD, PhD, DLitt, received his PhD Degree in Medicine at Madrid Complutense University in 1993 (Doctorate Extraordinary Award), and another PhD Degree in Spanish Language and Literature at University of Alcalá in 2015. He is a specialist in Pharmaceutical Medicine, and postgraduate in Holocaust Studies by the International School for Holocaust Studies of Yad Vashem (Jerusalem, Israel). Currently he is Professor of Pharmacology, Director of International Doctorate School, Chairman of the Research Ethics Committee, and Assistant Director of Academic Staff at Camilo José Cela University, and Research Fellow at Hospital 12 de Octubre Research Institute (Madrid, Spain), and Portucalense Institute of Neuropsychology and Cognitive and Behavioral Neurosciences (INPP), Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique (Porto, Portugal). He has supervised 16 PhD theses, has participated in 33 research projects, and acts as evaluator of research projects and degrees for several European Agencies. Prof. López-Muñoz is editor/author of 25 books (such as the “History of Psychopharmacology”, in three volumes, edited by Editorial Medica Panamericana, Madrid, 2007, and NPP Books, Arlington, USA, 2014, “Neurobiology of Depression”, from the prestigious series Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2012, or “Melatonin, Neuroprotective Agents and Antidepressant Therapy”, edited by Springer International, 2016), and 215 chapters of books related to the psychopharmacology. He has published 370 articles (H-index = 30). Prof. López-Muñoz is member of several scientific societies (including Collegium Internationale Neuro-Psychopharmacologicum) and editorial boards, and has participated, as visiting Professor in different Spanish and international academic centres. Prof. López-Muñoz has various awards for his research career, and he is Academician of the Royal European Academy of Doctors and Correspondent Academician of the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Cádiz, and Royal Academy of History and Art of San Quirce, and Foreign Corresponding Academician of the National Academies of Medicine of Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay and Dominican Republic. Research interest: Neuropsychopharmacology and Neurosciences: Biological bases of drug abuse and dual diagnosis, psychotropic drugs interactions, neurobiology of metal disorders, bibliometric techniques applied to mental health-related disciplines and neuropsychopharmacology, combination therapies with antidepressant drugs in resistant depression and with antipsychotics drugs in patients with refractory schizophrenia, and the history of the psychopharmacology and neurosciences.

Fiona Lehane graduated in Medicine from The University of Queensland with Honours in 2004, having previously trained and worked for nine years as a physiotherapist. She completed her medical internship at The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital in 2005 and went on to train in anatomical pathology at the Princess Alexandra Hospital.
After rotations at The Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, The Mater Hospital, Nambour Hospital and the Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services, she gained her Fellowship of the Royal College of Pathologists Australasia in 2011.
Dr Lehane joined Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology in that year and spent six months at their Tugun laboratory before joining the dermatopathology team in Brisbane.
In 2018, Dr Lehane was successful in the ICDP-UEMS Board Certifying Examination for Special Qualification in Dermatopathology.
She is a member of the Australasian Dermatopathology Society and the Australasian Division of the International Academy of Pathology and regularly attends dermatopathology conferences both in Australia and internationally.
She has several publications, and is involved in research as well as teaching anatomical pathology and dermatology registrars. Fiona also participates in SNP skin education seminars for general practitioners.

Nick has been writing and editing at New Atlas for over five years, where he has covered everything from distant space probes to self-driving cars to oddball animal science, and everything in between. He previously spent time at The Conversation, Mashable and The Santiago Times, earning a Masters degree in communications from Melbourne’s RMIT University along the way. When not tapping away at his desk, you might find him traveling the world in search of the weird and wonderful. Failing that, he’ll probably be watching sport.

After graduating from Penn State University in May of 2018, I went on to become an Assistant Editor at Health magazine (part of Meredith Corp). At Health, I cover everything from the nitty-gritty details of J. Lo’s diet to the reason why record numbers of college students are seeking mental health treatment. You can get to my Health author page by clicking here. When I’m not behind my laptop writing an article, you can find me eating my way through New York City, tending to my many houseplants, or reading a magazine from one of my countless subscriptions. Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you enjoy my website.

Dr Carmel Laragy is a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Applied Social Research (CASR). Carmel’s research focuses on the provision of flexible and responsive social services in disability and aged care. Her background is in social work. She studies service design, organisational change and workforce requirements to facilitate the introduction of individual funding in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and consumer directed care (CDC) in aged care.

I am broadly interested in the factors that promote or diminish happiness and well-being. My research program explores how constant connectivity to the Internet impacts people’s relationships and well-being and how we can harness technology to improve well-being and promote positive behavioral change. More @ www.kushlev.com

Eric Klinenberg is Helen Gould Shepard Professor of Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Crown, 2018), Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone (The Penguin Press, 2012), Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America’s Media (Metropolitan Books, 2007), and Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (University of Chicago Press, 2002), as well as the editor of Cultural Production in a Digital Age, co-editor of Antidemocracy in America (Columbia University Press, 2019), and co-author, with Aziz Ansari, of the New York Times #1 bestseller Modern Romance (The Penguin Press, 2015). His scholarly work has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review, Theory and Society, and Ethnography, and he has contributed to The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and This American Life.

Andrew Jacobs is a reporter with the Science desk of The New York Times covering global health. Formerly in Beijing, Brazil and other far-flung locales.