Kathy Beck is an experienced Paediatric Dietitian with expertise in food allergy and a passion to support families living with food allergy. Her philosophy emphasises focusing on what children with allergies are able to eat. Kathy is the past chair of the Dietitian Committee of ASCIA and has worked with other experts to produce ASCIA resources, in addition to supporting other dietitians.

Prof Elizabeth Denney-Wilson is Professor of Nursing in the Sydney Nursing School. She has academic qualifications in nursing, public health and epidemiology. Since completing her PhD in 2005, her research has focused on obesity prevention and management with a focus on the development of brief interventions (including mHealth interventions) targeting infant and young child feeding that can be scaled up and implemented. Prof Denney-Wilson has long term collaborations with researchers across a broad range of health disciplines from UNSW, Deakin and Flinders University. She was recently appointed to a WHO guidelines committee on child obesity prevention and management and the NHMRC clinical obesity guidelines committee.

Kylie is an experienced legal professional with a strong background in litigation, dispute resolution and class actions, specialising in running group proceedings on behalf of people who have suffered injury or loss as a result of corporate or government wrongdoing. She is also a playwright and mother of two young children.

Dr Ray Moynihan is an academic researcher, and an award-winning journalist and author, based in Australia with a global reputation. Ray is currently an Assistant Professor at Bond University, where he completed his PhD on Overdiagnosis, and an NHMRC Early Career Fellow. As a long-time journalist, reporting across print, radio, television and social media, Ray has worked at the ABC TV’s investigative program, Four Corners and the 7:30 Report, ABC Radio’s Background Briefing and The Australian Financial Review. Since winning a Harkness Fellowship, based at Harvard University in 1999, in addition to his journalism, Ray has developed an impressive body of academic work resulting in articles in the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, the Medical Journal of Australia, PLoS Medicine, and the British Medical Journal, BMJ. He is also currently an honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, in Australia. Internationally recognized for his work on the business of medicine, Ray is regularly interviewed by media globally, and invited to give presentations at universities, conferences and workshops around the world. The winner of many awards for his investigative journalism, Ray’s 2005 book Selling Sickness was described in the New York Times as a “compelling case” and has been translated into a dozen languages. His fourth book, Sex, Lies & Pharmaceuticals was released globally in late 2010 and generated widespread interest internationally. Since 2017 he has hosted the successful podcast The Recommended Dose, produced by Cochrane Australia.

Dr Joshua Zadro is a Physiotherapist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney. He is currently investigating strategies to reduce low-value physiotherapy in partnership with the Australian Physiotherapy Association, Choosing Wisely Australia and Wiser Healthcare Research Collaboration. His PhD largely focussed on physical activity as a risk factor and intervention strategy for people with low back pain. He continues to work clinically and has extensive experience working in a private musculoskeletal-based practice and with numerous amateur and professional football teams. Over the past few years he has taught in musculoskeletal physiotherapy units at The University of Sydney.

Dr Ellie Freedman is a Sexual Health Physician with a career long interest in Women’s Health. She has worked extensively in NSW Health Violence Abuse and Neglect services, providing trauma -informed medical and forensic care to victim-survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence. She works as manager of the medical education portfolio at NSW Education Centre Against Violence, overseeing the training of medical forensic examiners and is a Senior Clinical Advisor to Ministry of Health PARVAN.

Karinna is a Research Fellow in the Melbourne Institute at the University of Melbourne. Her current research focuses on how place-based factors shape health and healthcare use among priority populations in Australia.

I am a Professor of Health Economics at the Melbourne Institute within the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. I obtained my PhD in health economics and MS in health policy & management, both from Harvard University. I develop and evaluate novel strategies to improve health system productivity and population health. I am a leading scholar in using advanced quantitative methods and novel combination of big data to study policy impact and individual choices in private health insurance and healthcare consumption. My research has been published in the world’s best medicine, health policy, and economics journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs. My work has reached to many best international media outlet including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and US National Public Radio.

Elisha is the Acting Director of Obstetrics, and a Maternal Fetal Medicine Subspecialist at Logan Hospital. She is a RANZCOG counsellor and is passionate about improving pregnancy outcomes for mothers and babies through early intervention and whole patient care.

Professor Michael Chapman is one of Australia’s most highly profiled and respected fertility specialists. He is Head of School, Women’s and Children’s Health at the University of New South Wales, and St George Public Hospital, Kogarah and is the Director of the Fertility Society of Australia and is an examiner for the Certificate in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility for the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, of which he is a Fellow.