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.

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.