Cancer research scientist and childhood cancer survivor. I am a postdoctoral research scientist focusing on childhood cancers and new, targeted cancer therapies. As a survivor of childhood leukemia myself, I am a determined advocate for research into better, less-toxic cancer treatments and how to reduce the long-term side effects of current drugs. I am an award-winning science communicator and have written for The Times, The Guardian and various cancer-focused outlets. I am also a 2017 TED Fellow, having done my TED talk this year on cancer survivorship and I regularly do public talks on topics ranging from ‘Why haven’t we cured cancer yet?’ to ‘Cannabis and cancer; hype or hope?’. I am passionate about using social media to communicate science and frequently share pictures and stories from my own laboratory work in real-time on my Twitter account @vickyyyf, alongside commentary about important research breakthroughs. You can find out more about me and how to get in contact via my website drvickyforster.com. All of my articles reflect my personal views and not those of my employer.

Correspondent for @Reuters_Health. Former reporter for @PolitiFact and @ProJo.

I’m a psychologist who specialises in helping doctors, and the author of Also Human.

Dr. Matthew Edlund is a psychiatrist in Sarasota, Florida and is affiliated with Sarasota Memorial Hospital. He received his medical degree from State University of New York Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

Aisha Dow reports on health for The Age and is a former city reporter.

Peter Dockrill (Deputy Editor) is an award-winning science & technology journalist, formerly with APC, TechLife, and PC User. He’s been a columnist for Money magazine for 10 years and joined ScienceAlert in 2015.

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.