Meet our Invited Speakers

World Health Organization (WHO) Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator, and World Health Summit Ambassador

Lead, Economics of Obesity, Global Centre for Preventive Health and Nutrition (GLOBE), Deakin University, Australia

Director, Impact Assessment, World Mosquito Program, Australia

Deputy Director, AquaWatch Australia, CSIRO

Director, European Molecular Biology Laboratory-European Bioinformatics Institute

Clinical Director, Statewide Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Turning Point, Australia

Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Otago, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

Principal Advisor, Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

Group Lead, Transformational Bioinformatics Group, CSIRO, Australia

Professor and Former Dean, College of Public Health, University of the Philippines

Chief Investigator, Wiser Healthcare; NHMRC Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Australia

Strategic Advisor - Public Sector, Amazon Web Services, Australia

Associate Professor of Practice, Planetary Health, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Australia

Deputy Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, and Professor of Climate, Environment and Global Health, School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

Program Head, Brain Health Program, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia

Distinguished Professor, Global Health Program, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University

Director, Monash Infectious Diseases, Monash Health, Australia

Former Prime Minister of New Zealand, and Former Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme

Ambassador for Gender Equality, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government

Sir John Monash Distinguished Professor; Founding Director, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University, Australia

Chief Executive Officer, Harm Reduction Victoria, Australia

Co-Convenor of the Gendered Violence Research Network, UNSW; Director, Monash Indigenous Studies Centre; Chief Investigator, CEVAW, Australia

Manager, Recycled Water & Integrated Water Management Research, Service Futures, Melbourne Water, Australia

Group Leader/Clinician-Scientist Fellow, Vaccine Uptake Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia

Deputy Director (Indo-Pacific Research), CEVAW; Professor of International Relations, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Australia

Head, Women's Health Research Program, Monash University, Australia

Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA (video address)

Ambassador for Global Health and First Assistant Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australian Government

Senior Researcher, Center for Health Policy and Management, Universitas Gadja Madah, Indonesia

Co-Program Director, Disease Elimination, Burnet Institute, Australia

Chief Executive Officer, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

Pacific Chief of Health, United Nations Population Fund

Psychiatry Registrar, Bendigo Health, Australia

Professor (Hon), The Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

Nutrition Specialist, UNICEF East Asia and Pacific Regional Office (video address)

Finkel Professor of Global Health; Director of Global and Women’s Health; Co-Lead, Division of Planetary Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia

Director, Prevention in Action, OurWatch; Director, OurWatch Institute, Australia

Co-Chair, Lancet Global Health Commission on Medical Oxygen; Associate Professor, International Child Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia

Associate Professor, SingHealth Duke-NUS Global Health Institute, National University of Singapore; Visiting Professor of Global and Planetary Health, St Luke’s Medical Centre College of Medicine, Philippines

Professor of Global Environmental Health and Biostatistics, and Head of the Climate, Air Quality Research (CARE) Unit, Monash University, Australia

Chief Executive Officer, Beyond Blue, Australia

Lead, Animal Health and Environment, CSIRO, Australia

Deputy Director, Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusion; Co-Head, Global Women’s and Newborn Health, Burnet Institute, Australia

Chief Executive Officer, ShareAction UK

Director, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Head, Counseling Department, Oriental Theological Seminary Nagaland, India

Director, Heat and Health Research Incubator & Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory, The University of Sydney, Australia

Ngāti Kahungunu/Associate Professor, Te Kupenga Hauora Māori/Department of Māori Health, Waipapa Taumata Rau/The University of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand

Director of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Aotearoa/New Zealand

Global Health Research Lead, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia

Program Head, Global Health Program, UNSW Sydney Kirby Institute, Australia

CEO, Monash University Malaysia, and Pro-Vice Chancellor and President (Malaysia), Monash University

Dean, Royal Australasian College of Physicians, Australia

Senior Research Fellow, Vaccine Uptake Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia

Assistant Minister for Health & Aged Care, Australian Government

Director, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, Malaysia

Founding Director, Global Health Center, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland; Co-Chair, Council of the World Health Summit

Director, Population & Planetary Health, Northern Sydney Local Health District, New South Wales Government, Australia

President, Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health; Secretary, Universitas Indonesia; Professor, Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia

Head, Public Health Genomics Program, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia

Associate Provost, University of Melbourne, Australia

Deputy Head, Visibility, Information & Communication Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya; Head of Diabetes Care Unit & Senior Consultant Endocrinologist, University of Malaya Medical Centre

Director, Cholangiocarcinoma Research Institute, Khon Kaen University, Thailand

Chief Health Officer, Victorian Government, Australia

Minister of Health and Medical Services, Fiji Government

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland

President & CEO of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH); President of the Global Network for Academic Public Health (GNAPH), USA

Chief Health Officer of COVID & Health Emergencies, and Deputy Program Director (Health Security and Pandemic Preparedness), Burnet Institute, Australia

Former AFLW player and role model, Australia

Team Leader, Monash Health Refugee Health & Wellbeing, Australia

Te Aka Matua │Chief Executive, Te Aka Whai Ora│Māori Health Authority, Aotearoa│New Zealand

Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London; Director, The UCL Institute of Health Equity, UK

Lecturer in Global Health, Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Executive Manager, Food for Health Alliance, Australia

Principal Ambassador & Spokesperson Diversity and Inclusion, Youth Development Australia

Professor & Head of Health and Human Security, College of Health & Medicine, The Australian National University

Dean & Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Arts, National University of Samoa

Visiting Professor, Institute of Global Health Innovation, Imperial College London, UK

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Fiji National University

Chair of General Practice & Head, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care (SPHERE), Monash University, Australia

Director, Intensive Care, The Alfred, Australia; Technical Officer Clinical Management, World Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization

Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer, Australian Government

Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia

Head, Monash University Health Economics Group, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia

Senior Health Specialist, Asian Development Bank, Philippines

Director, International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Executive Director, Australian Global Health Alliance

Consultant Urban Planner (Pacific) Fiji

Director, Victorian Heart Hospital, Australia

Lecturer, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Advisor & Former Ambassador for Global Health, Sweden

Executive Director Lived Experience, Mental Health Division, Department of Health, Victorian Government, Australia

Distinguished Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA; Adjunct Professor, Monash University

Director, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Alfred Hospital and Professor, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Monash University, Australia

Director, Social Work Innovation, Transformation and Collaboration in Health (SWITCH) Research Group, School of Primary and Allied Health Care, Monash University, Australia

Regional Director, World Health Organization Western Pacific

Director, Informal Cities Lab (ICL), Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University, Australia

Senior Manager of Indigenous Programs, Office of the University Librarian, Deakin University, Australia

President Elect, World Federation of Public Health Associations

Deputy Dean Māori & Head of Department, Te Kupenga Hauora Māori, University of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand

Senior Impact and Ethics Analyst, Australian Ethical Investment

Director of Child & Adolescent Health PhD Program, The University of Melbourne, Australia; Group Leader, Asia-Pacific Health, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Co-Chair, World Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases International Scientific Committee

Executive Director, Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer

Research Fellow, Deakin University, Australia

Director, First Nations Strategy and Partnerships, Black Dog Institute, Australia

SHARP Professor and Principal Theme Lead: Cardiac, Vascular and Metabolic Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia

Co-founder, The Daily Aus, Australia

Director, Department of Health and Migration, World Health Organization (video address)

Deputy Medical Director, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Executive Director, Fiji Women’s Rights Movement

Minister for Health and Education, National Unity Government, Myanmar

Founder and Managing Director, Watipa, Australia; Tutor, Global Health Policy, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Associate Professor, Monash University Indonesia; Research Associate, Oxford University’s Centre for Criminology

Chief Executive Officer, EACH, Australia

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Australia

Vice Dean, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Lead Economist, World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA

Chief Executive Officer, Health Promotion Board, Singapore

Dean, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore

Permanent Secretary for Health and Medical Services, Fiji Government

CEO and Founder, Pearlii, Australia

Senior Lecturer, Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Monash University Malaysia

Director of the Monash Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health (MonCOEH), Monash University, Australia

Project Coordinator, Citarum Action Research Program (CARP), Monash University, Australia

Director, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland, Australia

Director, Centre for Sustainable Medicine, National University Singapore & Former (Founding) Chief Sustainability Officer, NHS UK

Group Leader - Diagnostics and Mammalian Infectious Disease Research, Australian Animal Health Laboratory, CSIRO

Acting Dean, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Fiji National University

Digital Health Consultant, Global Public Health Adviser, Youth Leadership in Global Health, UK

Professor of Sustainable Development, Monash University; Director, Scaling Up, Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environments (RISE), Australia

Dean and Cheung Kong Chair Professor, College of Environmental Sciences and Engineering; Director of Environmental Health, Peking University, China

Director, Gukwonderuk - Indigenous Health, Monash University, Australia

Global Director of Cardiovascular Program, The George Institute for Global Health, Australia

Deputy Director, Health and Biosecurity, CSIRO, Australia

Professor of Public Health, School of Medicine, Deakin University, Australia; Adjunct Professor, College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Fiji National University

Director, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University, Australia

Head, Indigenous Health Equity Unit, Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Australia

Director and CEO, Burnet Institute, Co-Head, Malaria Virulence and Drug Discovery Group, Burnet Institute, Australia; Chair, Australian Global Health Alliance; Chair, Pacific Friends of Global Health

Deputy Director (Indo-Pacific Research), CEVAW; Professor of International Relations, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, Australia

Chief Executive Officer, VicHealth, Australia

PhD Candidate, CEVAW, Monash University, Australia

Professor of Practice, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing & Health Sciences, Monash University, Australia

CEO, Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), Australia

Dean of the College of Health and Medicine, The Australian National University

Professor of Global Health and Senior Associate Dean for Research, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, USA

Deputy Head (Education), School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia

Head, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, Australia

Pro-Vice Chancellor (Indigenous), Monash University, Australia

Special Advisor on Clean Air, Burnet Institute, Australia

Co-Lead, Division of Planetary Health, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine; Director, Monash University Health & Climate, Australia

Director, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Australia

Manager, Commercial Determinants of Health, VicHealth, Australia

Clinical Research Fellow (Infectious Diseases), School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia

Vice-Chancellor and President, Monash University

Faculty of Pharmacy and Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy; Member, Executive Committee, M8 Alliance

Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia

Director, Health and Biosecurity, CSIRO, Australia

Health & Science Reporter, ABC; Co-host of ABC Radio National’s Health Report, Australia

Professorial Fellow, Monash University, and Chair of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and Climateworks Centre, Australia

Professor of International Relations; Director, CEVAW, Monash University, Australia

Director, Division of Health Systems and Services, World Health Organisation Western Pacific

Chief Executive Officer, National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia

Head, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Australia