Prof Susan Davis is a clinician-researcher who is an internationally recognised expert in sex hormones across the female lifespan, and menopause. She leads the Monash Women’s Health Research Program, is Head of the Women’s Endocrine Clinic, Alfred Health Melbourne, and an Executive Council Member of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. She is a past President of the Australasian and the International Menopause Societies. With over 495 peer-reviewed publications, her work underpins many best practice recommendations and has influenced health care delivery globally.

Professor Jason Ong is an academic sexual health physician with a passion for research among marginalized populations. He has a unique combination of skills and experiences of being a clinician, health economist and epidemiologist. He focuses his research on giving a voice to the voiceless and enjoys the challenge of shining light on taboo topics, to enable better decision-making.

Dr Deb Mills has a passion for medicine and travel. She is the medical director of Dr Deb The Travel Doctor, and has been working in travel medicine since July 1988. She is one of the pioneers of Travel Medicine in Australia. This means she and her team have the expertise necessary to ensure you get the best travel medicine care possible.

Dr Deb believes that travel and tourism can be a powerful force for good in the world, with the potential to benefit both the traveller, and those they visit. However, good health while travelling is essential for enjoying the adventure of travelling overseas.

Her book “Travelling Well – The ‘must-have’ guide to enjoying good health while you travel” is now in its 21st edition, with over 215,000 copies in print. She is a regular on radio and television, and has been widely published on the subject of travellers’ health.

As well as studying infectious diseases in Australia and many corners of the globe, she draws from her own travel experiences on all seven continents, to ensure travellers get the critical ‘been-there-done-that’ information that they need to travel with confidence and make the most of their journeys.

Sandra Vale is the National Allergy Strategy Manager working across all National Allergy Strategy projects. Sandra was the project officer responsible for the development of the National Allergy Strategy launched in August 2015. Prior to her National Allergy Strategy role, Sandra was the ASCIA Education Officer developing education and training resources for health professionals and consumers. Sandra has a background as a public health nutritionist with extensive experience in training and assessment.

Sandra is a PhD student at the University of Western Australia undertaking research in a public health approach to implementing the ASCIA Guidelines for infant feeding and allergy prevention.

Sandra is the parent of an 18 year old with severe allergy and also has adult onset exercise induced wheat anaphylaxis. Sandra is a volunteer for Allergy & Anaphylaxis Australia and has been the WA representative since 2007.

Prof Grant Waterer is the acting EMHS Area Director of Clinical Services and acting Director of Clinical Services at Royal Perth Bentley Group. He is also a respiratory physician at Royal Perth Hospital, Professor of Medicine at the University of Western Australia and Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University, Chicago. He is currently the Chair of the American Thoracic Society and Infectious Diseases Society of America Community Acquired Pneumonia Guidelines and a panel member of the ATS/IDSA HAP/VAP guidelines. He has over 150 peer reviewed publications, more than 60 invited international presentations and is on the Editorial Board of eight journals including the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Chest and the European Respiratory Journal.

Nancy Notzon is a freelance journalist based in the NSW Hunter Region

Prof Charlotte Hespe AM is a GP, Clinical Lead, and Co-Practice Owner at Glebe Family Medical Practice in Sydney.

Since 1996, Prof Charlotte Hespe has been a dedicated GP at Glebe Family Medical Practice (GFMP). She has led the clinic as Clinical Lead and Co-Practice Owner since 1999, combining her expertise in clinical care with a steadfast commitment to medical education and research.

In addition to her clinical work, Prof Hespe serves as Professor of General Practice and Primary Care Research at the University of Notre Dame, Australia (Sydney School of Medicine). Her dual roles enable her to seamlessly blend hands-on patient care with academic excellence, driving innovation in evidence-based healthcare.

Prof Hespe’s career is defined by her passion for General Practice as the foundation of high-quality, patient-centred healthcare. With over 23 years of leadership at a national level, she is a prominent figure in medical education, research, governance, policy, and health systems.

Sharon Smith is a health and medical journalist and content writer, with work published in Australian Hospital and Healthcare Bulletin, Nursing Times, Australian Pharmacist, The Limbic, Stockhead, and across the Australian Community Media rural news network.

Dr Allen is a respiratory and sleep physician. He also does general paediatrics and allergy management. He offers services such as allergy testing and pulmonary lung function test. He works with the paediatric sleep study units at Sydney Adventist Hospital and Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick for performing paediatric sleep studies. Both these Sleep Centres now offer a full range of diagnostic and therapeutic intervention sleep studies for children.

Dr Hugh Allen graduated from the University of Sydney in 1979 and completed his fellowship in 1985. He has been a fully qualified paediatric sleep physician since 1987 through the Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He has worked both in rural and outback NSW. He is currently a Visiting Medical officer at the Royal North Shore Hospital and has worked there for the last 25 years.

Dr Michael Eller is a neurologist with subspecialty training in headache neurology and movement disorders. He also maintains an interest in indigenous health and tropical medicine. He has previously worked as a visiting specialist at Monash Medical Centre and Royal Darwin Hospital, and currently at Monash Neurology.

In 2003, he completed a degree in medicine from the University of Sydney. Prior to this he completed a Bachelor of Science as well as much of a Bachelor of Arts with interests in archaeology and neuroscience. Postgraduate training was conducted at Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Darwin Hospital and The Alfred Hospital. Subsequent neurology training was undertaken at Monash Medical Centre and the Alfred Hospital after which he was admitted as a Fellow to the Royal Australian College of Physicians. He completed a Movement Disorder Fellowship at the Alfred Hospital. In 2009, he worked as a doctor in Vunapope, Papua New Guinea, with Australian Volunteers International.

From 2012-2014, Dr Eller was on faculty at University California San Francisco, attached to the UCSF Headache Centre under Professor Peter Goadsby. He conducted clinical and functional neuroimaging research in this capacity, as well as maintaining a headache clinic.

Dr Eller has published a book chapter and several clinical and scientific papers in high quality peer reviewed medical journals. His published topics include progressive supranuclear palsy, the use if biomarkers in parkinsonism, the utility of imaging in headache, the trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias (TACs), and visual snow.

Dr Eller specialises in the management of movement disorders such as Parkinson disease, essential tremor, progressive supranuclear palsy, multiple system atrophy, dystonia and other neurodegenerative disorders. He is expert in administering injection treatments for cervical dystonia, blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm.

Dr Eller also specialises in the management of headache disorders such as migraine and TACs such as cluster headache. This includes the administration of injections for treatment migraine and the TACs. He is able to perform injections for axillary hyperhidrosis. He also manages other general neurological disorders such as vertigo, cognitive problems, multiple sclerosis, neuropathy and epilepsy.

Sanjaya Senanayake is an Infectious Diseases Physician and Director of Hospital at Canberra Hospital. He is a Lecturer at the Australian National University Medical School, as well as a Conjoint Lecturer at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales.

Rosalyn Page is an award-winning technology, innovation and digital lifestyle writer, with bylines in publications including Wild Health, Information Age, CIO, CSO and CHOICE. Rosalyn also works with organisations providing content writing and strategy services.