Professor Tom Calma AO is Aboriginal and a member of the Kungarakan, Iwaidja and Woolwonga tribal groups in the NT. He is the National Coordinator Tackling Indigenous Smoking (2010-present), Patron of the five national Poche Centres for Indigenous Health (2010 to present), a Fellow of The University of Sydney Senate and Patron of Indigenous Allied Health Australian and Gayaa Dhuwi (Proud Spirit) Australia. He is an inaugural member of Cancer Australia’s Indigenous Cancers Leadership Group (2016 to present) and a member of the Australian Medical Research Advisory Board (2021 to present). Professor Calma was a former senior diplomat to India and Vietnam (1995-2002), Chancellor of the University of Canberra (2014-2023), the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner (2004-2010) and Race Discrimination Commissioner (2004-2009) with the Australian Human Rights Commission, and a member of Australian Genomics Independent Advisory Board (2021 – 2025). Professor Calma has a special interest in Indigenous and non- Indigenous health, mental health, SEWB and suicide prevention, education, aged care, economic development and social justice. His 2005 Social Justice Report on First Australian’s health inequality led to the creation of the Close the Gap Campaign and governments’ Closing the Gap response that is still the predominant Indigenous Health policy today. Professor Tom Calma was awarded the Sidney Sax Public Health Medal in 2015 and was the 2023 Senior Australian of the Year.

Professor Bronwyn Fredericks is an Indigenous academic leader from South-East Queensland with over 30 years of experience across higher education, government, and community sectors. She currently serves as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) at The University of Queensland, where she leads the university’s Indigenous strategy and community engagement. Her research focuses on health and education, grounded in the lived realities of Indigenous peoples and driven by a commitment to social justice. Previously, she held senior roles at Central Queensland University and served as a Commissioner with the Queensland Productivity Commission. A Fellow of both the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of the Humanities, she has received numerous accolades, including the 2019 Public Health Award in Indigenous Health and the 2022 National NAIDOC Award for Education.

Dr Alana Gall is a proud Truwulway woman, a Pakana (Tasmanian Aboriginal) from the north-east coast of Lutruwita (Tasmania, Australia). Dr Gall is passionate about Indigenous Peoples' holistic health and wellbeing, globally. She believes that the wellbeing and identity of Indigenous Peoples are strongly centred around strong connections to Country/land, culture, spirituality and each other. Dr Gall is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, in the National Centre for Naturopathic Medicine, at Southern Cross University, and an Honorary Research Fellow at both the University of Queensland and Menzies School of Health Research. At Southern Cross University, Dr Gall leads a research program that centres around First Peoples' Cultural Medicines in Australia, with the aims of protecting and preserving these medicines for future generations, including through international laws, and improving accessibility for all First Peoples' communities across Australia. Dr Gall has over a decade of experience in research, research translation, community engagement, health education and a background in Nutritional Medicine. She has an extensive and broad knowledge in First Peoples'; health and wellbeing; Indigenous Traditional Medicines; qualitative, Indigenous and decolonising methodologies and methods (including co-design methods/methodology); PROMs/PREMs measure development, and systematic, comprehensive and policy reviews. Dr Gall pioneered the use of individual yarns with a think-aloud component, called the ‘think-aloud yarn’, and co-developed the Key Principles to Co-Design with First Nations Peoples, which have informed the development of Cancer Australia's Australian Cancer Plan and underpin the implementation of the Our Mob our Cancer website (www.ourmobandcancer.gov.au).

Former - Chief Executive Leader: Policy and Operations - Waminda. Current Deputy Chair AHMRC & Board member of NACCHO. Gummeah, WandiWandian, Wodi Wodi, Walbunja woman from the South Coast of NSW. Over the past 16 years worked at Waminda, South Coast Women’s Health & Wellbeing Aboriginal Corporation based in Nowra/ Shoalhaven across various health & wellbeing leadership roles. Advocating across all areas of health & wellbeing for true Culturally informed, holistic strength-based care & equality; specifically, regarding self-determined futures, while ensuring community voices are heard across all levels of Government for meaningful sustainable change and improved health & wellbeing outcomes for Aboriginal communities.