Dr Obijiofor Aginam is Deputy Director and Head of Governance for Global Health at the United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH) in Kuala Lumpur. He has served as a consultant for WHO and FAO on aspects of trade, food safety, and globalisation of public health. He represents United Nations University in the UN Inter-Agency Taskforce on the Prevention and Control of Non-Communicable Diseases, and currently serves on the editorial board of Global Health Governance: The Scholarly Journal for the New Health Security Paradigm. He is the author of Global health governance: international law and public health in a divided world (2005).
Associate Professor Robyn Alders AM is a Senior Scientific Advisor with the Centre for Global Health Security within Chatham House, Director of the Kyeema Foundation and a Visiting Fellow with the Development Policy Centre within the Australian National University. For over 25 years, she has worked closely with family farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia and Australia and as a veterinarian, researcher and colleague, with an emphasis on the development of sustainable infectious disease control in animals in rural areas in support of food and nutrition security. Her current research and development interests include domestic and global food and nutrition security/systems, One Health/Planetary Health, gender equity and science communication. In 2002, Robyn was the recipient of the Kesteven Medal, awarded by the Australian Veterinary Association and the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists in recognition of distinguished contributions to international veterinary science in the field of technical and scientific assistance to developing countries. In 2011, she was invested as an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to veterinary science as a researcher and educator. In 2017, she was the recipient of the Inaugural Mitchell Global Humanitarian Award which recognises Australians and others supported by Australian aid who have made an outstanding contribution to the cause of international development.
Andi Imam Arundhana currently works at the Department of Nutritional Science, Universitas Hasanuddin. He does research in public health, nutrition and dietetics, and nutritional biochemistry.
Professor Kerry Arabena is President of the International Association in Ecology and Health, the Chair for Indigenous Health and Director of the Indigenous Health Equity Unit at the University of Melbourne, and Executive Director of First 1000 Days Australia, an intervention-based pre-birth cohort study designed with and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families. With an extensive background in public health, administration, community development and research, her work has made significant contributions in areas such as sexual and reproductive health, family empowerment, service provision, ecological health and harm minimisation. Her professional experience has seen her recognised as an Australian of the Year Finalist in 2010 and recipient of the prestigious JG Crawford Prize for Academic Excellence at Australian National University in 2011.
Conor Ashleigh is a visual storyteller and development communications practitioner. He has maintained a strong interest in documentary photography and filmmaking, and his stories have been published in media outlets including The New York Times, Le Monde and The Guardian. His projects have been exhibited internationally. As a visual communications specialist, he primarily works in the areas of international development, humanitarian response and research for agricultural development.
Dr Brigitte Bagnol is an independent consultant working in Africa and Asia for different national and international agencies to give training, design or evaluate projects and conduct research in the areas of development, anthropology of ecology, communication, sexuality, anthropology of health, One Health, and nutrition with a gender lens. She currently works mainly on gender, nutrition and infectious diseases from a One Health perspective. She was co-scriptwriter and co-director on several documentaries and fiction films. She is currently involved in collaborations with the University of the Witwatersrand, (South Africa), the University of Sydney (Australia), Tufts University (USA) and the University of São Paulo (Brazil).
Associate Professor Kirsten Black is an academic gynaecologist at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Joint Head of the Discipline of Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Neonatology at the University of Sydney. She is a fellow of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and a Member of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (UK) who works clinically in the fields of early pregnancy care, ultrasound, general gynaecology, menopause and contraception. She is an associate editor on the college’s journal. Her research focuses on sexual and reproductive health in low resource settings and she is committed to clinical and research capacity building in the Asia Pacific region.
Thomas Betitis lives and works on Bougainville. He is the Secretary of the Department of Primary Industries and Marine Resources in the Autonomous Government of Bougainville. He is a soil scientist who has worked with the oil palm and cocoa industries in Papua New Guinea. In his current role he aims to nurture the development of sustainable and profitable agriculture in Bougainville.
Yngve Bråten is an advisor in gender and sustainable economic development. He is a social scientist with a specialisation in gender, sexual and reproductive health and rights, energy, and agriculture. Since 2017, he has been working at the KIT Royal Tropical Institute on projects focused on gender mainstreaming and inclusive value chain development, often in agricultural settings. His experience includes qualitative research, policy making, project implementation and workshop facilitation.
James Butubu lives on Bougainville where he works on an ACIAR project (HORT 2014/094) as the project co-ordinator. He has an agriculture science background specialising mostly in cocoa breeding, cocoa husbandry and pathology. He is also experienced in horticultural production and floriculture.
Professor Anthony Capon is professor of planetary health in the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. A former director of the global health institute at United Nations University (UNU-IIGH), he is a public health physician and authority on environmental health and health promotion. His research focuses on urbanisation, sustainable development and population health. He is a member of the Rockefeller Foundation–Lancet Commission on Planetary Health and has served in numerous honorary leadership roles with professional and not-for-profit organisations in Australia and internationally.
Dr Sean C.P. Coogan is an interdisciplinary researcher with major interests in understanding the relationships between nutrition, ecology, and behaviour. His research on the nutritional ecology of urban Australian white ibis in Sydney received widespread media attention, and was voted in the top 10 Sydney science discoveries for 2017. His postdoctoral research on the population performance of grizzly bears focuses on integrating data from a wide range of modalities (e.g. remote sensing, nutritional, and physiological data) to produce novel approaches to understanding the ecology of wild carnivores in multi-use landscapes.
Professor Angus Dawson is Director of Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney. His research has mainly focused on ethical issues in public and global health, particularly relating to infectious disease and so-called lifestyle choices (e.g. eating, drinking and smoking). More recently he has been exploring more socially embedded concepts such as trust, community and solidarity and topics involving collective action problems such as climate change and antimicrobial resistance. He has been involved in ethics and policy work for many organisations including the World Health Organization and Médecins Sans Frontières. Most recently he was one of the editors of Public health ethics: cases spanning the globe (2016), a collection containing cases from 23 different countries.
Dr Chris Degeling is a health social scientist, philosopher, and practising veterinarian who works in the social studies and ethics of public health. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values at the University of Wollongong where he leads the NHMRC funded project: Can One Health strategies be more effectively implemented through prior identification of public values?
Dr Keith Eastwood is a microbiologist and epidemiologist with Hunter New England Population Health, New South Wales, Australia. He has a particular interest in disease surveillance, emerging diseases, zoonoses and One Health. He co-ordinates the Regional One Health Partnership, a large and diverse network of professionals working in animal, human and environmental health operating in northern NSW and southern Queensland. This informal group has collaborated in many successful research projects and activities showing the practical value of working within a One Health approach.
Professor Stan Fenwick is a veterinarian involved in veterinary public health and capacity building in South-East Asia. He joined the Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health, Cumming’s School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University in 2010 and since then has been based in Bangkok as regional technical advisor for USAID’s EPT 1 and EPT2 programs. A major part of his work in South-East Asia is providing support for SEAOHUN, the South-East Asia One Health University Network, whose aim is to build capacity among university graduates, government employees and other stakeholders to respond to outbreaks of emerging and re-emerging diseases using the One Health approach.
Professor Lyn Gilbert AO is an infectious disease physician and clinical microbiologist. She is a senior researcher at the Marie Bashir Institute for Emerging Infections and Biosecurity and at Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney. Her main research interests are prevention, surveillance, control and ethics of communicable diseases of public health importance. Currently, her research focuses on the ethics and politics of hospital infection prevention and control and antimicrobial resistance, including responsibilities of healthcare professionals and healthcare organisations; and One Health approaches to prediction and management of emerging infectious diseases.
Professor David Guest is plant pathologist in the Faculty of Science, Theme Leader for Development Agriculture in the Sydney Institute of Agriculture, executive member of the Sydney South-East Asia Centre, and a member of the self-assessment team for the SAGE Gender Equity project at the University of Sydney. While he has over 30 years’ experience investigating mechanisms of plant disease resistance and developing integrated disease management strategies for horticulture and natural environments, his current research goal is to cultivate interdisciplinary approaches to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in tropical horticulture by developing market incentives combined with improved soil, plant, livestock, human and environmental health. His fieldwork activities involve partnerships with research institutes and farming communities around the Asia-Pacific and in Latin America.
Dr Grant Hill-Cawthorne is a medical microbiologist and the head of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology for the UK Parliament, while remaining as an adjunct at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the use of molecular epidemiology for public health policy, particularly on emerging infections, drug resistance and the impact of mass gatherings.
Dr Lenny Hogerwerf is an epidemiologist and disease ecologist with the Centre for Infectious Disease Control at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment of the Netherlands. She has consulted for the Food and Agriculture Organization, was president of the international network Vétérinaires Sans Frontières Europe, and researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. She has also developed a variety of models for explaining the dynamics of HPAI H5N1 and infectious disease landscapes more generally.
Professor Martin Jeggo is a veterinary surgeon and has worked in research and research management of infectious diseases. During his 18 years at the UN, he managed programs of support for animal health in the developing world with research-related projects in 150 countries. In 2002‒2013 he was Director of the Australian Animal Health Laboratory. He now works on a part-time basis with the Geelong Centre for Emerging Infectious Diseases – a One Health consortium. He is also chair of the governing body of AUSGEM, a One Health partnership between the University of Technology Sydney and the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute in New South Wales. He has edited a number of books on the concepts underpinning One Health and is an executive editor of both Ecohealth and One Health journals.
Tammi Jonas is a former vegetarian academic and resident at Jonai Farms and Meatsmiths, where she and her family raise pigs and cattle in the central highlands of Victoria, Australia. Tammi and husband Stuart brought the value chain into their control by crowdfunding and building a butcher’s shop, commercial kitchen and curing room, where Tammi crafts a range of fresh cuts, smallgoods, charcuterie and air-cured products for the local community. Tammi is also the current President of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance where she advocates for everybody’s right to access nutritious and culturally appropriate food grown in ethical and ecologically sound ways, and their right to democratically determine their own food and agriculture systems. Tammi has been writing about food culture, politics, and ethics since 2006 on Tammi Jonas: food ethics, and has been widely published in both academic and popular texts.
Professor Richard Kock is a wildlife veterinary ecologist, infectious disease researcher and conservationist, and professor of wildlife health and emerging diseases at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London. He received an FAO international medal in recognition of his work on morbilliviruses in 2010. Much of his work has been on ecological perspectives of disease at the livestock‒wildlife interface with considerable reflection on agricultural impacts and biodiversity loss on disease emergence. He has over 150 peer-reviewed publications in books and journals, and principal investigator on a number of research projects on wildlife disease in Africa and Asia and co-investigator on a number of other programs. He is an expert member of the International Health Regulation and a Senior Fellow at Chatham House UK, and adjunct professor at the University of Tufts, USA.
Jessica Hall is a PhD student at the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney. Her research applies a One Health approach to examine the links between health, nutrition and productivity of cocoa farmers in Bougainville. Jessica has extensive experience in designing and implementing quantitative household surveys across South-East Asia and the Pacific, most recently a large-scale livelihood survey in Bougainville. Jessica has also worked with several research projects to transition from paper-based to mobile data collection systems in low resource settings.
Dr Anna Laven is a senior advisor in sustainable economic development at the KIT Royal Tropical Institute. She is a political scientist with a specialisation in sustainable development. She holds a PhD in development studies from the University of Amsterdam, where she specialised in governance and upgrading in value chains. Since 2008 she has been working on inclusive value chain development, looking specifically at gender in value chains and at sustainability in the cocoa sector. Her experience includes qualitative research, facilitation of multi-stakeholder processes, policy making and social entrepreneurship.
Professor John Mackenzie AO, FTSE, retired in 2008 after holding professorial appointments at Curtin University, the University of Queensland and the University of Western Australia. He is currently an Emeritus Professor of Curtin University, a part-time Senior Scientist-in-Charge at PathWest, Perth, and holds honorary positions at the University of Queensland and the Burnet Institute, Melbourne. He was elected Secretary-General of the International Union of Microbiological Societies from 1999 to 2005. He has served on various committees for the World Health Organization, including the Steering Committee of the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network, as Chair of the WHO IHR Emergency Committee for Influenza H1N1, and is currently a member of the Emergency Committee for Polio. He is a co-founder and Vice-Chair of the One Health Platform, a foundation based in Belgium, and editor-in-chief of the journal, One Health. In 2002, he was appointed as Officer in the Order of Australia for services to public health research and to education. In 2005 he was the inaugural recipient of the Academy of Science Malaysia’s Mahathir Science Award for Excellence in Tropical Research. His recent research interests have included mosquito-borne viral diseases, emerging zoonoses, and aspects of global health security.
Professor Ben Marais works in paediatric infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital at Westmead. He is Co-Director of the Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity and helps to lead the Centre for Research Excellence in Tuberculosis at the University of Sydney. His research has focused primarily on how children are affected by the global tuberculosis epidemic and the spread of drug resistant M. tuberculosis strains. He also has a strong interest in the environmental dimensions of health and the Marie Bashir Institute is committed to the One Planet – One Health concept. As a paediatrician he feels strongly about the ‘neglected third dimension’ of medical ethics, since the right of future generations to inherit a liveable planet and live a healthy life is rarely considered in medical decision making.
Dr Peter McMahon is a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney. He has worked in field agricultural research at the Entomology Branch, Queensland DPI and on Australian-funded projects in Indonesia concerned with sustainable production of tree crops and community livelihood. His main research focus has been integrated pest and disease management of smallholder cocoa and improvement of farmer livelihoods.
Dr Peter Massey is a clinical nurse consultant and program manager for Health Protection with Hunter New England Population Health. He has worked in public health in rural Australia for about 30 years and has expertise in immunisation, communicable disease control, zoonoses, public health emergencies and Aboriginal health. He brings a strong rural and equity focus to all aspects of public health and experience in research capacity building and community-based research. He has published than 75 publications, including 16 on One Health. He has worked for many years in a number of countries in the Pacific on TB programs, public health research capacity strengthening and disease control.
Professor Paul Memmott is an anthropologist and architect, and the director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Centre at the University of Queensland. He has dedicated his more than 45-year career to establishing a research and teaching field centred on the topic of Aboriginal people‒environments relations. His scholarly research output includes over 275 publications, 240 applied research reports and 70 competitive grants. He won a number of prestigious teaching awards in Indigenous education (including an Australian Award for University Teaching – AAUT). One of his books, titled Gunyah, Goondie + Wurley: Aboriginal architecture of Australia, received three national book awards in 2008, including the prestigious Stanner Award from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Most recently he has been awarded with a Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Grant for the establishment of an Indigenous Design Place initiative to engage transdisciplinary research teams with Indigenous community collaborators.
Dr Siobhan Mor is an epidemiologist, with expertise in both medical and veterinary methods and applications. She is currently senior lecturer in epidemiology (One Health) at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of zoonotic, emerging and tropical infectious diseases of global health importance, with particular regional focus on sub-Saharan Africa. She is a member of the Australian College of Veterinary Scientists by examination in veterinary epidemiology and an adjunct assistant professor at Tufts University, USA.
Dr Sudirman Nasir is senior lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Hasanuddin in Makassar. He has conducted research on various issues related to drug use and HIV-AIDS in Indonesia, including the social context of HIV risk-taking behaviours among young people who inject drugs in low-income neighbourhoods in Makassar. Besides publishing articles in academic journals, he frequently writes essays for Indonesian and international media. He also serves as a vice-president of the Indonesian Young Academy of Sciences (ALMI), whose mission is to empower mid-career scientists for building a strong science community in Indonesia.
Dr Nunung Nuryartono is associate professor and Dean of Faculty of Economics and Management at Bogor Agricultural University. He has more than 20 years’ experience in research, especially in development economics, public sector reform, financial inclusion, microfinance, poverty and economic growth, and has published many scientific papers and other publications. He is an active member of Indonesia Economists Association, Indonesia Regional Science Association and the Australasians Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. He also became a visiting associate at the School of Economics at the University of Adelaide.
Professor David Raubenheimer is a nutritional ecologist, with 25 years of experience in applying ecological and evolutionary theory in the study of animal and human nutrition. His work includes laboratory and field studies on species from insects to reptiles, fish, sharks, birds, giant pandas, grizzly bears, monkeys, gorillas, orangutans and chimpanzees, as well as pets and production animals. He also applies the perspectives of nutritional ecology to the health problems of humans in modern environments. In 2013 he took up his current position as Chair in Nutritional Ecology and Nutrition Theme Leader in the Charles Perkins Centre, the University of Sydney. He is co-author of The nature of nutrition: a unifying framework from animal adaptation to human obesity (2012), and has published over 250 peer-reviewed papers.
Dian Sidik Arsyad is an epidemiologist at the Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Hasanuddin in Makassar. He is a lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology. His research focuses on both communicable and noncommunicable diseases surveillance, and on the development of public health information systems.
Dr Darryl Stellmach is a postdoctoral associate in medical anthropology, food and nutrition security at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the social and political aspects of epidemics, food security and nutritional crises as well as expertise in field research planning and methods. Prior to academia Darryl spent ten years as field manager for medical humanitarian aid operations.
Dr Kim-Yen Phan-Thien is a senior lecturer in food science at the University of Sydney, where she helped to develop the Food and Agribusiness curriculum. She undertakes research on diverse topics related to food quality and food safety in the Sydney Institute of Agriculture.
Associate Professor Jenny-Ann Toribio is an epidemiologist in the School of Veterinary Science at the University of Sydney. She has a career-long interest in small-scale livestock production systems in South-East Asia and the Pacific, with research on integrated mixed farming and on animal and zoonotic infectious diseases in these settings.
Clement Totavun lives and works on Bougainville where he is the Secretary of the Department of Health in the Autonomous Government of Bougainville. He has nursing qualifications. He previously worked for the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea and the World Health Organization in the PNG Country Office, Port Moresby.
Grant Vinning works in cocoa in the Pacific and Indonesia. He finds new markets then works with local people to develop their skills to exploit new market opportunities. He is the author of Cocoa in the Pacific: The First Fifty Years (2017) and a bi-monthly cocoa market newsletter that goes to cocoa growers, chocolate makers, researchers, and policy makers in 10 countries. He is the Judges’ Coordinator at the Bougainville Chocolate Festival and the adjudicator of the Festival’s Big Bean Competition.
Robert G. Wallace is a public health phylogeographer presently visiting the University of Minnesota’s Institute for Global Studies. His research has addressed the evolution and spread of influenza, the agro-economics of Ebola, the social geography of HIV/AIDS in New York City, the emergence of Kaposi’s sarcoma herpesvirus out of Ugandan prehistory, and the evolution of infection life history in response to antivirals. He is co-author of Farming human pathogens: ecological resilience and evolutionary process (2009) and Neoliberal ebola: modelling disease emergence from finance to forest and farm (2016), and author of Big farms make big flu: dispatches on infectious disease, agribusiness, and the nature of science (2016). He has consulted for the Food and Agriculture Organization on bird flu and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on ecohealth.
Rodrick Wallace is a research scientist in the Division of Epidemiology of the New York State Psychiatric Institute at Columbia University. He received an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a PhD in physics from Columbia University, worked a decade as a public interest lobbyist, and is a past recipient of an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He is the author of numerous books and papers relating to public health and public order.
Professor Merrilyn Walton AM is a professor of medical education at the University of Sydney. She is a researcher and leader in global health, health service development and patient safety; most of her current work is in low- and middle-income countries. Her international work has involved patient safety and workforce development in Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Timor Leste and China. She has published over 65 peer-reviewed journal articles, 18 chapters in books and three books, 17 major government reports and 22 newspaper articles. Over the last five years she has been involved in cross-disciplinary work with agriculture to develop One Health approaches to improve livelihoods of rural farming communities in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2015 for ‘significant service to the health care sector, particularly through policy development and reform, and to professional medical practice and standards’. In 2016 she accepted an honorary professorship at the Hanoi Medical University Viet Nam.
Dr Anke Wiethoelter is a veterinarian with interest in epidemiology, risk assessments and infectious diseases at the wildlife‒livestock‒human interface. As a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sydney and Western Sydney University, Anke investigated risk perception and mitigation strategies for the Hendra virus by Australian horse owners. Her current role as lecturer in veterinary epidemiology (One Health) at the University of Melbourne involves research into zoonotic diseases as well as teaching in the areas of epidemiology, veterinary public health, and One Health.
Dr Josephine Yaupain Saul-Maora gained her PhD from the University of Sydney in 2009 studying the genetic diversity of Phytophthora palmivora, the cocoa black pod pathogen. She was the Research Leader for Crop Protection at the former PNG Cocoa and Coconut Institute, Kerevat, East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. She is currently active in Women and Youth in Agriculture, East New Britain, and as a trainer for the Family Farm Teams projects across PNG. She has been involved in a number of research projects with the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). She is married with two children and currently lives in East New Britain.