Dr Niroshini Kennedy is a paediatrician at the Royal Children’s Hospital, and at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service. She is a graduate of the University of Melbourne (MBBS 1999 and MPH 2008) and trained in General Paediatrics and Community Child Health at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne. Her clinical work involves the care of Aboriginal children in the child protection system and in state care. Prior to her current roles, she worked as a child protection paediatrician at RCH’s Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service for several years. Her clinical, policy and advocacy work has focussed on the health needs of vulnerable children, and health system redesign. She was awarded the 2018 Jack Brockhoff Foundation Churchill Fellowship to investigate models of Integrated Care for Aboriginal children in statutory care. Her report, “Improving the Health of Aboriginal Children in out-of-home care” has recently been published by the Churchill Trust. Dr Kennedy is a member of Victoria’s Consultative Council on Obstetric and Paediatric Mortality and Morbidity, a Ministerial Advisory Council. She is an active contributor to the Royal Australasian College of Physician's policy and advocacy work, and has served on Council of the Paediatric Division, and the Paediatric Policy and Advocacy Committee. She is Lead Fellow for the RACP's Congress 2021 and chairs the RACP's Congress Program Committee.

Dr Sharmila Ramessur Chandran MBBS, MRCP, FRACP, PhD, MHA is a consultant nephrologist in Melbourne, honorary senior lecturer at Monash University and director on the board of Kerang District Health. Sharmila is a strong believer of diversity in medicine having worked in multicultural UK and Toronto, Canada. Her interests in medical education and leadership have led her to be involved in multiple RACP committees. She is currently the Victorian coordinator of the College Lecture Series and AMD lead for RACP Congress 2020. Sharmila is a mother of 3 girls aged 8, 6 and 3.

Peter Hill, Honorary Associate Professor Global Health Systems, School of Public Health, University of Queensland. Peter Hill is a Public Health Physician and academic with research interests in global health governance and policy and its translation into health systems--particularly in low- and middle-income countries. Over a forty-year academic career he has health systems and research collaborations in Asia and the Pacific, and a commitment to policy research affecting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health.

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Visiting Senior Fellow, The Kirby Institute, University of NSW, Sydney
Associate Professor Catherine C O'Connor is a Sexual Health Physician who has worked for many years in both Australia and the Pacific. She is currently UNDP HIV/STI Consultant for Pacific Island Countries. She is an Exec Member of AChSHM and President 2017-2020 AChSHM RACP. She is also an Exec Member of RACP Policy & Advocacy Committee. She was Director Sexual Health, Sydney LHD 1996-2019 and Chairperson of RPAH Medical Board 2017-2018. She has an active research interest in both HIV clinical medicine and STI epidemiology.

Senior Staff Specialist in Gastroenterology at the Royal Darwin Hospital and Honorary Professor at Hull York Medical School, UK. Professor Martin Veysey finished his undergraduate medical training at the Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals in 1991 and completed basic and advanced training in the UK before gaining his CCST in Gastroenterology and General Medicine in 2002 and moving to Australia. From 2003, he worked as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, NSW and a Clinical Academic at Gosford on the Central Coast. He returned to the UK in 2017 as MBBS Programme Director at Hull York Medical School. From late 2020 , he will be back in Australia in Darwin as a Senior Staff Specialist. He is Chair of the OTP Committee, member of the College Education Committee and a member of the Senior Examining Panel. His clinical and research interests include luminal gastrointestinal disease, colorectal cancer, molecular nutrition and medical education and he has published extensively in these areas.