John Birmingham is a columnist for the Brisbane Times. He is also an award winning magazine writer and the author of Leviathan, the Unauthorised Biography of Sydney, which won the National Award for Non-Fiction. He amuses himself in his down time by writing novels which improve with altitude.

Helen Briggs is a multi-media journalist at BBC News and a journalist fellow at the Reuters Institute for Journalism at Oxford University for Michaelmas term term 2014. Helen is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster, with wide-ranging experience of national and international news across online, radio and TV. She has reported for the BBC on everything from space launches to decoding the human genome. She has interviewed eminent scientists and policymakers as well as government ministers and Nobel Prize winners.During her time at the BBC, Helen has worked as health editor of the BBC News website, science producer on Radio 4’s Today Programme and science reporter for the BBC World Service. Before joining the BBC, she worked as a presenter, news reader and reporter for local radio and network radio news.Outside the BBC, Helen teaches journalism at the University of Westminster as a visiting lecturer. She is also a published scientist and author.She holds a Master of Philosophy (medical faculty) and Bachelor of Science degree (Biochemistry and Genetics) from Newcastle University.

After graduating with a degree in media and broadcast, Vanessa landed a job with the Today show as a producer. She spent five years with the breakfast program, which saw her working across the country and the world on various entertainment, news and lifestyle stories. Vanessa has a great interest in food, fitness, beauty, health and home. Before leading the travel team, she was a lifestyle reporter for news.com.au.

Writer and Media Representative, Georgia Institute of Technology

Journalist. Producer, Health Report and Ockham’s Razor on @RadioNational. My views, not ABC’s

Dr Wendy Burton graduated from the University of Queensland in 1987. She is married with three boys and enjoys the variety and challenge of General Practice. Wendy is passionate about helping to build a stronger society and working to improve health outcomes, both within her consulting room and by working on connecting the health care sectors.
In addition to her principal work role as a GP, she works at a local, state and national level in the maternity and early childhood space.
Her principal interests are in Women’s Health, Antenatal Care, Paediatrics and Asthma.

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.

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.

Felicity Caldwell is state political reporter at the Brisbane Times

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