Professor of Oral Health Sciences, University of Washington Donald L. Chi, a board-certified pediatric dentist and health services researcher, is a Professor of Oral Health Sciences and Associate Dean for Research in the University of Washington School of Dentistry. He is also a Professor in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health in the School of Public Health. His research focuses on children’s oral health. He draws on knowledge from the social and behavioral sciences, with the goal of eliminating inequalities and improving oral health for vulnerable populations. Dr. Chi has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles. Dr. Chi has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry since 2021. He teaches public health and clinical pediatric dentistry, and treats patients at the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic in Seattle's Othello neighborhood.
Associate Professor in Midwifery, University of Technology Sydney Deborah Fox is Associate Professor in Midwifery and core member of the Collective for Midwifery, Child and Family Health at UTS. She is Co-lead of the Maridulu Budyari Gumal SPHERE Maternal and Women's Clinical Theme, Chair of the National Publicly Funded Homebirth Consortium and an Editorial Board member of the leading midwifery journal 'Women and Birth'. The focus of her research is optimising physiological processes and positive experiences for women with complex pregnancies. The mediation of technology in midwifery practice is a key component of this work. Currently, this involves the evaluation of non-invasive fetal ECG (NIFECG) beltless and wireless fetal monitoring in labour and birth; and the social, economic and environmental impacts of telemonitoring and telehealth in pregnancy and postpartum care. Her PhD, which was attached to the Birthplace in Australia project, was a qualitative study of the processes and interactions involved in the intrapartum transfer of women to hospital from planned homebirth, drawing on theoretical perspectives from social psychology. In addition to her PhD, A/Prof Fox holds a Bachelor of Midwifery degree from the Australian Catholic University (Melbourne) and a Master of Science in Midwifery and Women's Health (with Distinction) from the University of Central Lancashire in the UK. Currently a member of the Australian College of Midwives (ACM) NSW Branch Executive and ACM Professional Practice Advisory Group updating the ‘Birth at Home Midwifery Practice Standards’ and ‘Transfer from Planned Birth at Home Guidelines’, she also represents the ACM on the RANZCOG Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance Guideline Development Group. An innovative clinician, she collaborated with obstetric colleagues in 2011 to establish Singapore’s first caseload midwifery model, 'EMMa Care' and was instrumental in the implementation of Group Antenatal Care in Victoria. Dr Fox has published widely in Q1 journals and has presented her research in the UK, Germany, Canada, Singapore, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia and Australia. She supervises Hons, Masters and PhD research students in midwifery, public health and obstetrics and gynaecology.
Assistant Professor in Political Ecologies of Sustainability, Utrecht University Diana Vela Almeida is an assistant professor at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainability, Utrecht University. She holds a PhD in natural resource science from McGill University. Diana has over ten years of experience in studies of the extractive industries in developing countries and has conducted extensive field research in Ecuador, Peru and Indonesia. She has written about resource geographies, conflict and development, participation in extractive governance and more recently, the role of the extractive industries in the energy transition. She led the policy report on the sustainability indicators for the metallic mining industries in the Andean countries prepared for the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC. Diana is also a senior researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology where she leads the project “Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity Chains” in Indonesia, which aims to map the global value chains of nickel and tin that connect the multiple territories of extraction with the European market, and the synergies, tradeoffs and chokeholds of the their global governance systems. The results of this study aim to inform a policy report for the European Commission on the Proposal on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University I am a population ecologist working in the Griffith Wildlife Disease Ecology Group. My interests are in conservation and wildlife disease ecology.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, American Museum of Natural History I am a Gerstner Postdoctoral Scholar in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. I study the genetics of adaptation and the process of speciation in birds.
Senior Lecturer in Finance, University of Technology Sydney Deborah Cotton has worked as a lecturer at UTS since 1992. Prior to that she worked in stockbroking in Sydney doing both research and client advising. Currently Deborah has a PhD in Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies from Macquarie University with the thesis topic Efficacy of emissions trading schemes in Australia. Deborah is a member of the Centre for Climate Risk and Resilience in the Faculty of Business. Her current research is in climate change, sustainable finance and impact investing.
