Dr Brooke Nickel (BSc Hons, MIPH, PhD) is a NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow in The University of Sydney School of Public Health. Her research focuses on understanding the psychosocial impact of cancer diagnosis and treatment, and how to improve cancer communication and decision making. The work she has led has been published in high impact journals in the field including The BMJ, JAMA Network Open, JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, and JNCI. She has worked with the Department of Health and is currently working with BreastScreen programs on research related to understanding the benefits and harms of breast density notification in Australia.

Alicia is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with many years of experience in both Paediatrics and Adult Nutrition. Alicia is Senior Weight Management Dietitian at the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead

Dr Shirley Alexander has practiced as a paediatrician in the UK and Australia for over 20 years. Over the past 10 years, she has been working as Staff Specialist and is the Head of Weight Management Services at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead (CHW), a multidisciplinary team helping children and young people with obesity and their families develop healthier lifestyle habits. She has published broadly on topics in relation to childhood obesity and medical education and has presented at conferences locally, nationally and internationally.

In addition, Shirley has a strong focus in medical education with appointments through the University of Notre Dame, Clinical Lead in Paediatrics for the Sydney Medical School (Auburn) and as Director of Prevocational Education and Training at CHW.

Susan Prescott is the Winthrop Professor in the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at University of Western Australia. She is also a Paediatric Allergist and Immunologist at the Perth Children’s Hospital and a Research Strategy Leader and the Telethon KIDS Institute. She is founding President of the multidisciplinary DOHaD Society in Australia and New Zealand (Developmental Origins of Health and Disease) and is a Director of the World Allergy Organisation, the peak global organisation on allergy, comprising of over 90 national and regional allergy and immunology societies.

Dr. Adalja is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security. His work is focused on emerging infectious disease, pandemic preparedness, and biosecurity.

Dr. Adalja is an Associate Editor of the journal Health Security. He was a coeditor of the volume Global Catastrophic Biological Risks, a contributing author for the Handbook of Bioterrorism and Disaster Medicine, the Emergency Medicine CorePendium, Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple, UpToDate’s section on biological terrorism, and a NATO volume on bioterrorism

Dr. Adalja is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American College of Physicians, and the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is a member of various medical societies, including the American Medical Association, the HIV Medicine Association, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine. He is a board-certified physician in internal medicine, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and critical care medicine.

Associate Professor Crawford is Director of SAEFVIC (Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination in the Community), a vaccine safety and clinical immunisation research group based at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Having completed his medical undergraduate studies at Flinders University Adelaide, A/Prof Crawford has a masters of public health from Cardiff University, Wales and a Vaccinology PhD from The University of Melbourne.

A/Prof Crawford is also the Head of the Immunisation Service at The Royal Children’s Hospital and an expert in the vaccination of special risk groups (e.g. immunosuppressed patients) and the clinical evaluation of adverse events following immunisation. He was the chief technical writer for the special risk section of the Australian Immunisation Handbook (NHMRC 2013) and was recently appointed to the Australian Technical and Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI).

Dr Stephen Duckett has held top operational and policy leadership positions in health care in Australia and Canada, including as Secretary of what is now the Commonwealth Department of Health. He has a reputation for creativity, evidence-based innovation, and reform in areas ranging from the introduction of activity-based funding for hospitals to new systems of accountability for the safety of hospital care. An economist, he is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.