A/Prof Melissa McCradden is a bioethicist and clinical researcher. She serves as the Artificial Intelligence Director and Deputy Research Director with the Women's and Children's Health Network, and a Deputy Director and The Hospital Research Foundation (THRF) Group Fellow at the Australian Institute for Machine Learning at the University of Adelaide. She is an Adjunct Scientist with the SickKids Research Institute and member of the SickKids Research Ethics Board in Toronto, Canada. Dr. McCradden's expertise is in the development of ethical frameworks derived from clinical and technical knowledge grounded in policy, law, and moral theory. She serves on multiple international reporting guideline initiatives and consortia, including the WHO/ITU's Clinical Evaluation Task Force in the Focus Group on AI 4 Health as well as the Centre of Excellence for Regulatory Science & Innovation in AI and Digital Health (CERSI-AI).

Dr Ayre is an NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow (2023-2027) at the Sydney Health Literacy Lab, University of Sydney. Her research focuses on using digital technology to support health literacy initiatives in the healthcare workforce and the community. She has a strong track record with >80 publications in high quality national and international journals (e.g. npj Digital Medicine, MJA). Dr Ayre sits on the Scientific Advisory Team for the Australian Government’s National Health Literacy Framework.