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.

I am currently a senior lecturer in Pharmacology at the University of Westminster, London UK. My previous posts include: Lecturer and Coulson Trust Fellow (University of Leicester, UK), Vice Chancellor Fellow (University of Surrey, UK) and the Fogarty Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA.I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB). I am also a Ambassador for the Royal Society of Biology.My areas of expertise includes molecular cardiology, cardiac arrhythmias, heart failure, circadian biology, circadian clock genes, pineal gland, and the hormone melatonin.Using a multi-disciplinary approach (molecular, cell, organ and animal models), our focus is to identify and delineate novel gene regulatory networks in cardiac function and unravel mechanisms that control the expression of those genes critical to heart function, disease and human health, in particular cardiac hypertrophy, arrhythmia and heart failure.

Dr Ian Chambers is a graduate of the University of Otago. His training in pathology and medical microbiology began in Wellington, continued in the subspecialty of medical virology in Adelaide and was completed at Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney. He joined Douglass Hanly Moir Pathology in 1988. As Director of Microbiology and Immunoserology, Dr Chambers is responsible for those departments that are involved in the laboratory diagnosis of infectious disease, including bacteriology, mycology, mycobacteriology, virology, immunoserology and molecular pathology. Although based in the laboratory, Dr Chambers is an infection control consultant to several private hospitals and serves on their infection control committees in that capacity. He also has an appointment as Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Pathology at the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame

Felicity Caldwell is state political reporter at the Brisbane Times

Dr Linda Calabresi is an Australian-based health professional. Linda is trained as a GP (General Practitioner) and has practices located in North Ryde, Artarmon.

Bethany Cadman was born and raised in Scotland and now resides in Brighton where she lives with her partner and rather disobedient cocker spaniel pup.Inspired during her MA in Creative Writing from Sussex University she began writing ‘Doctor Vanilla’s Sunflowers’, her debut novel, finishing it a few years later while working as a freelance writer.