Professor Tarun Weeramanthri has served as Chief Health Officer in Western Australia since 2008, is Adjunct Professor at the School of Population and Global Health at the University of Western Australia, and is also the Assistant Director General, Public and Aboriginal Health, in WA Department of Health. He has a particular interest in innovative public policy, promoting the value of public health, and application of new and old technologies, including the use of spatial data in health. He is the joint specialty chief editor of Frontiers in Public Health Policy, an international open-access journal. In 2014, he was awarded the Sidney Sax Public Health Medal, the highest award given by the Public Health Association of Australia, for his contribution to public health in Australia.

Dr Louise Ann Clark is a public health academic at the University of Tasmania. Currently she is Course Coordinator for the Master of Public Health. Beginning her career as a nurse in Tasmania, her passion for public health was ignited by three decades in the Northern Territory where she held diverse roles spanning public health academic leadership and senior health policy and strategy development in chronic disease management, primary health care and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health. Her research interests include the implementation and evaluation of interventions in health care services, particularly in rural and remote health contexts. She is an advocate for developing locally relevant curriculum and expanding the public health workforce across the spectrum of health protection, health promotion and preventive health.

Kevin is an aspiring public health focused clinician-scientist working to integrate bench-to-bedside discoveries into the global community utilising population health measures. As a member of the 2023 APHC advisory committee, Kevin aims to maximise the accessibility for students and early career professionals as well as incorporate practical and informative sessions. In 2021, he joined the SYPPH committee to apply his theoretical training, work together with passionate students and early career professionals and make a measurable impact in motivating all those interested in public health. Kevin is interested in exploring the intersectionality and entirety of the healthcare pipeline, from drug discovery, clinical trials to commercialisation and community implementation. Through his professional experiences in biomedical research, public health and business development, Kevin ultimately endeavours to champion and empower his fellow peers and colleagues to join him in forging a multidisciplinary health career.  Kevin is both a Bachelor of Biomedicine graduate, and currently a MD Candidate with the University of Melbourne.

Joanne Flavel is a Research Fellow at Stretton Health Equity in the Stretton Institute at the University of Adelaide. Her research focuses primarily on health equity and social determinants of health and she has worked on several projects examining the impact of the distribution of social determinants on health equity. She has expertise in quantitative analysis and leads Stretton Health Equity’s social epidemiology work. Joanne is a member of the international Punching Above Weight Network, formed to advance thinking and research about why some countries do much better in terms of health outcomes than would be predicted by their economic status. She is also a Global Burden of Disease Collaborator. Alongside her academic position, Joanne is actively involved in the Public Health Association of Australia and the Australian Health Promotion Association. She is Co-convenor of the PHAA Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Special Interest Group and is Membership Secretary and Events Coordinator for the PHAA South Australian Branch. She received the PHAA Emerging Leader Award and the Health Promotion SIG Early Career Award for Research in 2022 and also received an SA Branch President’s Award for her contributions to PHAA’s SA Branch.

Leanne has been a member of the PHAA for many years and has joined the staff in 2022 as the Policy and Advocacy Manager. She has both Master and Doctorate degrees in Public Health and postgraduate qualifications in Public Relations. She has over 20 years of experience in public health throughout Australia and internationally as a health practitioner, executive manager in both the Australian Government and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Sector, international public health consultant, and public health academic. She is also co-chair of the World Federation of Public Health Associations’ Professional Education and Training Working Group

Dr Kim Jose is immediate past-president of the Tasmanian Branch of the PHAA. Kim works as a senior research fellow at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania. An applied public health researcher her research focuses on promoting health and wellbeing and the prevention and management of chronic disease across the life course. Her research has been undertaken through collaborating and co-designing research with government, service providers, clinicians, health service consumers and community members to facilitate research. Kim uses a range of approaches to support consumer and community involvement in research.