Joseph is Head, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit at the Department of Forensic Medicine. He is also an Associate Director with Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety and an Adjunct Professor, Australian Centre for Evidence Based Aged Care at La Trobe University, Faculty of Health Sciences.

Joseph is the Clinical Director of Subacute Services at Ballarat Health and a practicing consultant physician in geriatric medicine with research interests in medico-legal death investigation, elder abuse and Dignity of Risk as well as quality of clinical care, performance measurement and patient safety. Joseph has a Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and a Fellowship in Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine.

Dr. Gary Grohmann B. Sc. (Hons), PhD, FASM Gary Grohmann is former Director of Immunobiology and WHO ERL at the TGA, Office of Laboratories and Scientific services from 1997-2015. He currently works as an independent consultant, primarily with the WHO on influenza related projects in the Global Influenza Programme and the Essential Medicines Programme.

Dr. Grohmann has served on several WHO steering committees including the committee for the review of the IVTM database on influenza viruses and reassortant influenza viruses, and the WHO VCM committee that recommends virus strains for influenza vaccines (until 2015). He has also been a member of the Technical Advisory Group (2007-2015) of the Global Action Plan for Influenza.

His primary interests are in vaccines, vaccine regulation, medical and veterinary virology, and infectious diseases resulting from contaminated food and water as well as other environmental sources. Dr. Grohmann is currently a Board Member of the Immunisation Coalition and Adjunct Professor at the University of Sydney.

Dr Dusseldorp graduated from the University of Sydney in Medicine and Surgery with Honours. He initially trained at Prince of Wales Hospital before being offered a position as an Advanced Trainee in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Dr Dusseldorp gained experience from many of the major teaching hospitals in Sydney and currently operates at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse and Concord Hospital. He has a keen interest in treating complex skin cancers, in particular on the face and ears.

Clinical Associate Professor Payal Saxena is a Gastroenterologist and Hepatologist and subspecialises in Interventional Endoscopy. A/Prof Saxena has special interest in pancreatic disease and is passionate about its ongoing research. A/Prof Saxena contributes to the International Cancer of the Pancreas Screening Consortium and International Registry is an editorial reviewer for field publications such as Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy and Digestive Diseases and Sciences.

BMedSc MB BS UNSW, PhD Syd, MRCP, FRACP, FAFPHM Professor Guy Marks is a respiratory physician and environmental epidemiologist. His main research interests are in chronic respiratory disease (asthma and COPD), tuberculosis control and the adverse health effects of exposure to air pollution. He is Professor of Respiratory Medicine at UNSW, South Western Sydney Clinical School. He is currently an NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow. He is head of the Respiratory and Environmental Epidemiology group at the Woolcock Institute and an Honorary Professor at The University of Sydney (Sydney Medical School).
His other major roles include Editor-in-Chief (lung diseases) of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Vice President of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Chair of the NSW TB Advisory Committee, and Chair of the NSW Chief Health Officer’s Expert Advisory Committee on Air Pollution. He also received an Achievement Award by the NHMRC in 2014 for being the top-ranked applicant for a Research Fellowship in that year.

Tony Blakely, MBChB, MPH, PhD, is a Professor of Epidemiology at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne and Affiliate Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. From 1998 to 2019 he was at the University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand, where he was Director of the Burden of Disease Epidemiology, Equity and Cost Effectiveness program.

Bill Bowtell is Adjunct Professor at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, UNSW.
Bill a strategic policy adviser, with particular interest in national and international health policy structures and reform. He trained as a diplomat, with postings in Portugal, Papua New Guinea and Zimbabwe.
As senior adviser to the Australian health minister, Bill Bowtell played a significant role in the introduction of the Medicare health insurance system in 1984.
He was an architect of Australia’s successful and well-regarded response to HIV/AIDS.
Between 1994 and 1996, Bill Bowtell was senior political adviser to the Prime Minister of Australia. He maintains a close interest in the potential impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and the other communicable diseases, on the social, economic and political development of the Asia-Pacific region.
Since 2005, Bill was Director of the HIV/AIDS Project at the Lowy Institute for International Policy and, since 2009, the Executive Director of Pacific Friends of the Global Fund. Pacific Friends is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In these positions, he has sought to increase knowledge and awareness of the challenges posed globally, and to the Pacific region, by the three diseases.
He has written and broadcast extensively on these subjects and participated in many international and Australian conferences and seminars especially in relation to HIV/AIDS.

Dr Ahmadi is an Urologists and Urological Cancer Surgeon and one of the few Australian urologists with a fellowship degree in Advanced Robotic Urological Oncology. During his overseas fellowship, Dr Ahmadi gained expertise in complex minimally invasive urological procedures in cancer and reconstructive urological surgeries.