Associate Professor and Psychiatrist, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney Associate Professor Louise Nash is a psychiatrist with expertise in teaching, research and clinical work. She is the Associate Director of Teaching and Learning at the Brain and Mind Centre of The University of Sydney and consultant psychiatrist with Sydney Local Health District. She has diverse clinical experience in rural, remote and metropolitan Australia having worked in Darwin, Alice Springs, Dubbo, Orange and Sydney. Her recent research projects include promoting doctors’ health and wellbeing, improving the junior doctor experience of psychiatry terms, exploring innovative ways to change workplace culture, promoting rural psychiatry training and youth mental health. Her PhD examined the impact of medico-legal matters on the health and practice of Australian doctors.
Chief Scientist, Center for Bioethics and Humanities and Professor of Medicine and Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Professor Lisa Bero is a pharmacologist and researcher in evidence-based health care who is internationally renowned for her studies on the integrity of clinical and basic research evidence that is used to influence health policy, and the manner in which evidence is communicated to key groups such as physicians, policy-makers, journalists and the community. Professor Bero is recognised for her methodological studies on bias (including publication/reporting, design and funding biases) in the fields of clinical medicine (pharmaceuticals), tobacco control and environmental research, and on the use and implications of the evidence for prescribing decisions/policy. Her expertise lies in investigating hidden biases in the design, conduct and publication of research, and includes ground-breaking work that demonstrated the selective reporting of data for drugs approved by the FDA which showed that including unpublished outcomes of drug studies in meta-analyses changes the results of all relevant meta-analyses. These findings have contributed to open access data reforms such as access to information from drug regulatory agencies and improved reporting requirements for clinical trials on the clinicaltrials.gov registry.
Research Project Officer, Monash University Dr Lisa J. Wheildon is a researcher and teaching associate in criminology and gender-based violence at Monash University and RMIT University. Lisa’s recent research has focused on online safety and technology-facilitated abuse, including technology-facilitated coercive control and technology-facilitated workplace sexual harassment. Her teaching is in the areas of victimology, politics and family and domestic violence. She is an expert in gender, public policy and institutions. Lisa's PhD research employed an interdisciplinary approach, applying criminological and political science theories with a feminist research methodology to examine the role of victim-survivors of gender-based violence in the co-production of public policy. The research explored how power imbalances and gendered social norms create barriers to meaningful engagement and successful co-production with victim-survivors and highlighted the need to transform state institutions to embed gender equality. Lisa is the early career researcher representative on the Australian and New Zealand Society Of Criminology Committee of Management and a moderator and member of the Committee of Management of the Power to Persuade global social policy platform.
Instructor, School of Education, University of New Orleans Lauren Lassabe Shepherd is a historian who studies the political history of the American academy, especially its relationship to the 20th century conservative movement. Shepherd’s first book, "Resistance from the Right: Conservatives and the Campus Wars" (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) traced how conservative activists shaped higher education policy, precedent, and law in the wake of 1960s antiwar and civil rights movements. Shepherd was recently profiled in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education as part of its Class of 2024 leading women in the field of higher education. Her work and commentary have been featured in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, TIME Magazine, NPR, POLITICO, Vox, The Nation, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Lapham’s Quarterly, and Contingent Magazine. Shepherd is an instructor in the School of Education at the University of New Orleans and an IUPUI-Society for US Intellectual History Community Scholar. In addition to research and writing, she enjoys teaching Pilates and practicing yoga. She lives with her husband and their dogs in South Mississippi.
Professor Emeritus of History, University of Illinois Chicago Leon Fink is a specialist in American labor, immigration history and the Gilded Age/Progressive Era. The author or editor of a dozen books, his most recent work adopts a transnational and comparative view of the Gilded Age/Progressive Era as well as seeking out the roots of today's "globalized" economic order.
Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health Dr Leigh Walker is an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow at The Florey. Leigh completed their undergraduate and honours degree at Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) before moving to Australia to undertake a PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Melbourne. Leigh’s research investigates the neurobiology of anxiety and alcohol use disorders. She is particularly interested in sex differences. To assess this, Leigh leverages various genetic, physiological, neuroanatomical, viral, and pharmacological approaches in rodent animal models to monitor, manipulate, and map the neural circuits, synapses, and signalling mechanisms that drive complex behaviours. She has been awarded University of Melbourne ECR, Brockhoff Foundation, ARC and NHMRC research funding to pursue her research.
