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Emeritus Prof Simon Chapman AO

Simon Chapman AO PhD is Emeritus Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney. Across 45 years, he has been a prominent researcher and advocate for tobacco control, gun control and renewable energy. He was foundation deputy editor (199297) and editor (19982008) for the British Medical Journal’s specialist journal Tobacco Control. In 1997 he was awarded the World Health Organization’s World No Tobacco Day Medal and in 2003 the American Cancer Society’s Luther Terry Award for outstanding individual leadership in tobacco control. In 2008 he was awarded the NSW Premier’s Cancer Researcher of the Year medal and in 2013 he was made an Officer in the Order of Australia for his contributions to public health, and named Australian Skeptic of the Year. The Sydney Morning Herald named him in 2008 and 2012 as one of Sydney’s 100 most influential people.

Dr Dianne Campbell

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.

Mr Denis Campbell

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

Ms Sarah Boseley

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

Prof Kirsten Black

Associate Professor Kirsten Black is an academic gynaecologist who works clinically at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. She is Joint Head of the Discipline of Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Neonatology at the University of Sydney and her research interests focus on women’s sexual and reproductive health

Dr Paul Biegler

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.

Ms Sadhana Bharanidharan

Dr Emma Austen

Higher Degree Research candidate Emma Austin is investigating the environmental, social, health and economic effects of drought on rural communities in NSW. Led by a multidisciplinary supervisory team that includes hydroclimatology, social science, public health and rural communities specialisation, Emma is working towards quantifying the critical relationships between drought, wellbeing and adaptive capacity in rural communities. The aim is to provide new and detailed information that will inform public policy and facilitate climate change adaptation. Emma’s research will improve understanding of how we can collectively support rural communities to pro-actively manage climate variability and improve the wellbeing of rural residents impacted by drought.

Dr Joyce Wu

Ms Olivia Willis

Health reporter @ABCscience + @RadioNational | Former producer #LadiesWeNeedToTalk | My views | willis.olivia@abc.net.au

Prof Andrew Whitehouse

Professor Andrew Whitehouse was appointed as Chief Research Officer of the Autism CRC in July 2017. Prior to his, led Program 1, continuing his work to identify prenatal risk factors for autism, as well as spearheading the creation of the Australian Autism Biological Database. Andrew directs the Autism Research Team at the Telethon Kids Institute, University of Western Australia. His research team investigates the genetic and neurodevelopmental causes of autism, and conducts clinical intervention trials into this condition. In August 2017, Andrew was awarded the 2017 3M Eureka Prize for Emerging Leader in Science in recognition of his work and passion as an autism researcher, and for his leadership in the field, both nationally and internationally.Andrew has published over 120 peer-reviewed journal articles, as well as two books and two internationally-used clinical assessments. He currently writes a popular column on child development for the news TV website The Conversation, which has attracted more than 1 million unique hits. Andrew has been a Fellow at the University of Oxford, and is currently the Winthrop Professor of Child Development at the Telethon Institute for Child Health, University of Western Australia. Leading the Autism CRC Diagnosis Research Program, we aim to significantly reduce the age of diagnosis of autism. Incorporating cutting edge genetic and biological research to enhance accuracy and then match the most effective interventions.

Mr David Weber

David is a senior cross media news reporter in Perth with more than 20 years experience. He first started working with the ABC in the Illawarra region in the early 1990s. Since then David has reported on all of the major stories in WA while working with radio current affairs at AM, PM and The World Today. He has also reported for ABC TV News, Stateline and The 7:30 Report. David has won numerous reporting awards, including a United Nations Peace Prize in 2005.

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