David DiSalvo is the author of the best-selling book “What Makes Your Brain Happy and Why You Should Do the Opposite”, which has been published in 15 languages, and the books “Brain Changer: How Harnessing Your Brain’s Power to Adapt Can Change Your Life” and “The Brain in Your Kitchen”. His work has appeared in Scientific American Mind, Forbes, Time, Psychology Today, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Esquire, Mental Floss and other publications, and he’s the writer behind the widely read science and technology blogs Neuropsyched at Forbes and Neuronarrative at Psychology Today. He can be found on Twitter @neuronarrative and at his website, daviddisalvo.org. Contact him at: disalvowrites [at] gmail.com.

Erin Digitale is the pediatrics science writer for the medical school’s Office of Communication & Public Affairs. Email her at digitale@stanford.edu.

I am CEO and Co-Founder of hackajob, a company set up to promote meritocracy in recruitment. I think jobs should be matched with candidates because of skills, not CVs, so I created a platform to measure and hire people based on their competency. It has worked for the likes of Apple and Argos and we’re proud to represent 65,000 highly skilled technology experts. I am passionate about high-impact initiatives with strong and meaningful missions and love to talk on this topic. I am endlessly fascinated by the relationship between technology and people. My company works using artificial intelligence and I write about how this will change our world in a multitude of ways.

Professor University of Sydney and University of NSW Paediatric Endocrinologist, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, UNSW

Caitlin Coyle, PhD, is a research fellow in the Center for Social and Demographic Research on Aging and adjunct assistant professor of gerontology at the University of Massachusetts Boston.Coyle’s research focuses on strengthening communities as places to age. Topics of her recent projects include aging with autism, developing training for the home care aide workforce in Massachusetts, and demonstrating the ways in which age-friendly communities can address and prevent social isolation.She earned her doctorate in gerontology from UMass Boston and worked as postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Yale School of Public Health. She has extensive experience working as a research partner to community-based organizations.

Sophie Cousins is an award-winning Australian writer and journalist based in South Asia. Her work focuses on the systems that exacerbate gender inequality and the impact this has on women’s and girls’ health. She writes increasingly on the intersection of climate change and health, migrant health and issues surrounding sustainability.Her short and long-form work has appeared in the Guardian, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Mosaic Science, the Lancet, British Medical Journal, the London Review of Books, New Scientist, Nature, NPR, Caravan, the Atlantic, BBC, Lenny Letter and NewsDeeply, among other publications. She is the author of a forthcoming book on women’s health in the region, which will be published in autumn 2019. She has reported from more than 20 countries across Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, Europe and the Middle East. Her work has been translated into several languages. She has received multiple reporting fellowships from the United Nations Foundation and the National Press Foundation. She is a grantee with the South Asia Journalists Association and the International Reporting Project. She was part of the Fuller Project’s 2018 Global Women’s Issues Reporting Team and a fellow at Health Systems Global. Sophie is a journalism mentor at the Coalition for Women in Journalism. In 2018 her joint long-form piece on female migrant domestic worker abuse in the Gulf was awarded first prize from the International Labour Organisation for quality reporting on labour migration. In 2019, her long-form piece antibiotic resistance received a ‘Highly Commended’ award from the Medical Journalists’ Association for sexual health journalism. Sophie also works as a public health consultant for various United Nations’ agencies. She is currently working as a technical consultant for the World Health Organisation’s South-East Asia Regional Office. She graduated in 2016 with a Masters of International Public Health from the University of Sydney. Throughout her degree she worked with a team of doctors on several academic papers about disease outbreaks in Nepal following the 2015 earthquake. She also studied journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney and international studies at the University of Sydney.

Sean Coughlan is an award-winning education correspondent for BBC News in London. He is editor of an international education online series for the BBC, called the Knowledge Economy.
Mr. Coughlan was awarded the prize for Education Journalist of the Year at the House of Commons in December. He has previously written for the Guardian, The Times and the Times Educational Supplement. He is the author of a cultural history of sleep and has had collections of poetry included in two recent anthologies. The World Service broadcast a documentary he made this year about the sinking of the Titanic. He has three daughters and lives in London.

Rachel Clun is a journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald

Dr Smathi Chong graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2001 and trained in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne. He has also completed a Diploma of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene in Liverpool (UK).Dr Chong started working with Clinipath in 2013 and is happy to discuss the investigation and treatment of a broad range of community and hospital acquired infections. These include serology, multi-resistant bacterial infections, tropical & travel medicine and parasitology. He also does volunteer teaching at a hospital in West Timor, Indonesia.