Dr Jonine Jancey – Editor in Chief

Dr Jonine Jancey is a research academic within the School of Public Health at Curtin University. Jonine has worked in health promotion for over 20 years as a practitioner with NGOs and government departments, as a university lecturer and has served on professional committees (PHAA and AHPA). Jonine has a particular interest in theory informed and behavioural intervention research particularly in the areas of physical activity and nutrition. She also conducts tobacco control and injury prevention research, has a keen interest in workplace health promotion research and manages the program evaluation for a number of NGOs.

Professor Peter Howat - Associate Editor

Peter Howat is Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, Curtin University. He was Director, Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer Control at Curtin University and the Cancer Council of Western Australia Professor of Behavioural Research in Cancer Control (2006 – 2014); Professor in Tier One, National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) Research Group (2006 – 2014); Co-Director of WA Centre for Health Promotion Research (1986 – 2015); Board Member of the Public Health Advocacy Institute of WA (2009 - 2012), and Co-Director of the WA Centre for Public Health (2003-2011). He was founding Head, Department of Health Promotion, Curtin University (1983-2005). He completed undergraduate studies Otago University (1970) and Canterbury University (1971) in New Zealand, and MSc (1978) and PhD (1980) at University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, USA. He has experience in public health advocacy and policy related practice and research over 40 years. He has served on numerous professional organisation committees (PHAA, IUHPE, AHPA, NHMRC, ICCWA) and community groups in New Zealand, the USA and Australia.

Professor Colin Binns – Associate Editor

Professor Binns graduated in medicine from the University of Western Australia and worked for several years in hospitals in Perth before working as a medical doctor in Papua New Guinea. In PNG he became interested in nutrition and received a scholarship to complete a MPH degree at Harvard. He returned to Curtin University (then WAIT) and founded the Curtin Health Service and was its medical director for 20 years. He was appointed foundation Head of the School of Public Health for 21 years and continues as Professor of Public Health. He was Vice-President of the Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health for five years; foundation head of the National Drug Research Institute (Curtin University); held visiting professorial positions at Kagawa Nutrition University Tokyo, University of Ryukus Okinawa, Tonji Medical College Wuhan and Inje University, Republic of Korea He has served on 16 committees of the NHMRC and currently he is a member of the Australian Dietary Guidelines Committee and the Advisory Panel on the Marketing of Infant Formula. He is a member of numerous government advisory and research. In 2004 he was given the award of Senior Western Australian of the Year and was awarded an honorary PhD from Inje University, Korea for public health research in Asia. Current research interests include breastfeeding, international health and nutrition and cancer. Major current research projects include the Perth Infant Feeding Study and projects on infant feeding, nutrition and cancer in China (three locations), Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia and Kenya. He has completed consultancies on nutrition and public health services in the Maldives, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Kenya, Malaysia, Mauritius, New Zealand and China.

Associate Professor Stacy Carter – Associate Editor

Stacy Carter is Associate Professor and NHMRC Career Development Fellow at the Centre for Values Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM) at the University of Sydney. Her current projects include empirical investigations of the ethics of health promotion, the ethics of cancer screening and over diagnosis, the process of unassisted smoking cessation and the

relationship between evidence and policymaking, as well as methodological work on the relationship between theory and practice in qualitative research.

Associate Professor James Smith – Associate Editor

Associate Professor James Smith is a Program Manager within the Office of Pro Vice Chancellor – Indigenous Leadership at Charles Darwin University. He has worked in the field of health promotion and education in South Australia and the Northern Territory for more than a decade. This has spanned research, policy and practice contexts, particularly in relation to Indigenous health and wellbeing. He has experience working in senior management and executive strategic health policy and planning roles in both government and non-government organisations. His research interests have predominantly focused on gender and health, particularly men’s health. Associate Professor Smith is a Fellow of the Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA) and former AHPA Board member and past Chair of its Research, Evaluation and Evidence Translation Committee. Associate Professor Smith is also an Adjunct Research Fellow with the Collaboration for Evidence, Research and Innovation in Public Health at Curtin University. He is also an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Men’s Health.

Dr Lisa Barnett – Associate Editor

Dr Barnett has over 10 years health promotion experience (1994–2005) designing and implementing health promotion interventions. She was employed in the health sector in a variety of areas (HIV/AIDS, injury prevention specifically falls prevention, and physical activity promotion). During this period she completed a Bachelor degree in Social Science with a major in Youth Work (Edith Cowan University) and a Masters’ in Public Health (University of New South Wales). She then completed her PhD (2006-08, University of Sydney). In 2009/10 she lectured in Health Promotion and Public Health at Deakin

University. She then completed a National Health and Medical Research Council early career fellowship at Deakin University (2011-14). Currently she is a Senior Lecturer funded through an Alfred Deakin research fellowship. Her research focus is the contribution of children’s actual and perceived fundamental movement skill to physical activity and other health behaviours. Dr Barnett has over 65 peer reviewed publications and close to 1000 research citations.

HPJA Editorial Board

Professor Annie Anderson

Professor Annie Anderson is Professor of Public Health Nutrition and Co-director of the Centre for Research into Cancer Prevention and Screening at the University of Dundee. Her main research areas focus on theory based, behaviourally focused dietary and obesity (population and individual) interventions aimed at chronic disease risk reduction with a special interest in lifestyle related cancer. Her advisory work has included membership of the UICC (Union for International Cancer Control) Taskforce on Cancer Prevention and she represented UICC on the WCRF/AICR Review on Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer (2004-2009). She is currently a working group member of the IARC group developing an update on the European Code Against Cancer. She has been an expert science member of the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN) from 2000 to 2011 (and continues as a member of the SACN Subgroup on Child and Maternal Nutrition) and has been an external advisor to the UK Food Standards Agency. She is currently Chair of the National Prevention Research Initiative (UK Medical Research Council) scientific committee.

Professor Margaret Barry

Margaret Barry is Professor of Health Promotion and Public Health and Head of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Health Promotion Research at the National University of Ireland Galway. Margaret has published widely in the field of mental health promotion and works closely with policymakers and practitioners on the development, implementation and evaluation of mental health promotion interventions and policies at national and international level. Elected as Global Vice President for Capacity Building, Education and Training by the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (2007-2010), she has served as board member of a number of international and European advisory groups, research councils and scientific committees. Professor Barry has acted as expert adviser on mental health promotion policy and research development in a number of countries globally and was appointed in 2013 to the European Commission Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Victorian Health Foundation, Australia in 2007 and Healthway Fellow at Curtin University in 2013.

Dr Jun Chih

Dr H. Jun Chih is a teaching and research academic in epidemiology and biostatistics at School of Public Health, Curtin University. Jun teaches the principles of quantitative research methods and statistical analyses of public health data at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels and supervises Masters and PhD students. Her research interest lies broadly around relationship between lifestyle factors such as nutrition and physical activity and physical and

mental health. Jun has helped many research teams design their observational and experimental studies and analyse their quantitative cross-sectional and longitudinal data using advanced statistical methods. She is also a reviewer for a number of international scholarly journals.

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Professor Donna Cross

Donna Cross is a Winthrop Professor with the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Western Australia and the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. She is also the Vice Chancellor’s Adjunct Professor at Edith Cowan University and Adjunct Professor at Curtin University. Donna and her research team conduct highly applied school and family-based health promotion research in Australia and internationally. Over the last 30 years she has conducted applied intervention research that aimed to improve children’s and adolescents’ health and wellbeing by reducing bullying, negative online behaviours, road injuries and drug use behaviours. Her contribution to children’s health promotion research translation has been recognised with numerous awards. In 2012 alone, Donna received the Future Justice Prize and was named a Western Australian Ambassador for Children and Young People, and the WA Australian of the Year. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.

Professor Rob Donovan

Rob Donovan is Professor of Behavioural Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences and Principal of Mentally Healthy WA’s Act-Belong-Commit campaign. Professor Donovan has held overseas academic positions in Marketing at Pace University, New York University, and the University of Georgia, and has been a Visiting Scientist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. He has also had extensive commercial experience in marketing and advertising and founded Donovan Research, a social and market research consultancy which was recognised as one of Australia's leading market research companies prior to its incorporation into first the NFO Worldwide Group and then the TNS Research Group.

Professor Larry Green

Larry served as the first director of the U.S. Office of Health Information and Health Promotion and on the public health faculties at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Harvard and Texas, and as vice president and director of the Kaiser Family Foundation's national Health Promotion Program. Before joining the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 1999, where he headed the Office on Smoking and Health and the Office of Science and Extramural Research, he was director of the Institute of Health Promotion Research and professor of health care and epidemiology at the University of British Columbia, where he also headed the Division of Preventive Medicine and Health Promotion. Larry has received the Distinguished Fellow Award of the Society for Public Health Education and Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Academy of Health Behavior. He is elected as Member of the Institute of

Medicine of the National Academies and a Fellow of the American Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. Professor Andrew Hills

Andrew Hills was previously Professor of Energy Metabolism, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology (QUT). In 2011, he was appointed Professor of Allied Health Research at Mater Mothers’ Hospital and subsequently established the Centre for Nutrition and Exercise, Mater Research Institute – The University of Queensland. He holds a conjoint professorial appointment at Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University and maintains the position of Adjunct Professor at QUT. Professor Hills is a former Co-Director of the Australian Technology Network of Universities’ Centre for Metabolic Fitness, a national Centre devoted to better understanding the lifestyle implications of obesity and related conditions. He is also an immediate-past Co-Director of the Australasian Child and Adolescent Obesity Research Network (ACAORN) and a former President of the Australia and New Zealand Obesity Society (ANZOS). As a prominent exercise physiologist, Professor Hills has completed numerous research consultancies with the World Health Organization (WHO), International Olympic Committee (IOC), and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

Cheryl Hutchins

Cheryl has taught, researched and practiced health promotion for many years within the community, government and university sectors. She has worked in the field for over 18 years in Queensland, Victoria, ACT and most recently at a national level with the Australian National Preventive Health Agency (ANPHA). Her primary interest is in building and integrating the capacity for health promotion within all parts of society. She has worked with others to develop national competencies for health promotion practitioners and within government, to integrate health promoting policy into portfolios beyond departments of health through professional development programs and the development of state-wide and national policies. Most recently, Cheryl’s work has focused on obesity prevention. She has contributed to the National Partnership Agreement for Preventive Health since its inception at a jurisdictional and national level. Currently, she is the Acting Director for Obesity Policy at ANPHA where her role has included managing the development of evidence briefs, the National Preventive Health Awards and the Shape Up Australia Initiative

Dr Jenni Judd

Dr Jenni Judd worked for over 27 years in the Health and Education sectors in the Northern Territory with a particular focus in rural and remote Indigenous communities across northern Australia. The impact of her work includes practitioner guidelines for working in public health; reorienting the workforce in primary health care settings; improvements in health curriculum for schools; changes in policy to enhance the health promotion and prevention aspects of health service delivery; and changes in pandemic influenza policies in Indigenous Communities. Jenni has worked as a Senior and Principal Research Fellow at James Cook University since July 2007, and has particular expertise in building Indigenous research capacity and mentoring and supporting higher degree research students. Jenni is an Adjunct Principal Research Fellow and mentors and supports higher degree students in the Cohort Doctoral studies program within the Division of Tropical Health and Medicine. She supervises PhD, Doctorate and Masters Students. She has a national and international profile in health promotion, Indigenous health and cross cultural communication.

Professor Ronald Labonte

Ronald Labonté holds a Canada Research Chair in Globalization and Health Equity and is Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa; and in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia. His work focuses on the health equity impacts of contemporary globalization, on which he has published extensively in the

scientific and popular literature. From 2005 until 2008 he chaired the Globalization Knowledge Network for the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, some of the work of which is published in the book, Globalization and Health: Pathways, Evidence and Policy (Routledge, 2009). Present research interests include health equity impacts of comprehensive primary health care reforms; health worker migration; medical tourism; global health diplomacy; globalization, trade and tobacco control; and trade and food security. Prior to his work on globalization and health, he spent 23 years in public health as a health promotion consultant, emphasizing empowerment approaches to healthy locality development, and health advocacy/civil society initiatives on what are now referred to as social determinants of health. Ron is an elected Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (UK) and the recipient of the 2015 Defries Medal and Lifetime Award from the Canadian Public Health Association.

Professor Albert Lee

Albert Lee is Professor and Head of Family Medicine Unit of Department of Community and Family Medicine and Director of Centre for Health Education and Health Promotion of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been appointed as Director of Centre for General Practice Research Development of Institute of Hospital Management of Ministry of Health, China since 2007. He is also the Honorary Consultant in Family Medicine of New Territory East and Kwong Wah Hospital (since 1999), and Head of Department of Family Medicine and General Outpatient clinics at Lek Yuen Health Centre. Professor Lee received his medical degree at University of London with various awards and merit certificates. He pursued further postgraduate studies with Diploma in Child Health at Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Ireland, Master of Public Health and Doctorate degree in Medicine (higher research degree: dissertation on health services research in primary care) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and also Diploma in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He has been awarded Fellows of Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Faculty of Public Health of Royal College of Physicians of United Kingdom, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Family Medicine), and Hong Kong College of Family Physician. His clinical specialty is Family Medicine and his research area of interest is family and community health with special interest in Primary Care Health Services Research, primary care management of chronic disease, School Health, medical education and Health Education and Health Promotion. He is in the process of completion of his Doctor of Education programme at University of Bristol. He is member of Editorial Board of Health Promotion International and International Advisor of Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health. He is Vice Editor of Chinese General Practice. He is examiner of Fellowship examination of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and Hong Kong College of

General Practitioners. He is also Chief Examiner in Community Medicine and Ethics of Hong Kong Licentiate examination written paper. He received the award for Chief Executive Commendation for Community Services in 2004 Honours list of Hong Kong SAR Government. His expertise is in research and program delivery in the areas of: Health Promotion and Health-Promoting Schools; Community Health Research Methodology; and Healthy Cities and the Asia Pacific Alliance.

Dr Jo Mitchell

Jo Mitchell is the Director, Centre for Population Health in the NSW Ministry of Health. In this role she is responsible for the leading the development, implementation and evaluation of health promotion policy and strategy at the state level, including HIV/STI prevention, tobacco control, overweight and obesity prevention, prevention of blood borne virus and harm reduction, and falls prevention in older people. She has worked in health promotion for over twenty years. This includes experience in the management of local health promotion services and implementation of health promotion programs with a particular focus on nutrition. She has a post-graduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics, a Masters of Public Health from University of Sydney and a doctorate in Public Health from Flinders University.

Professor Kim Raine

Dr. Kim Raine is currently Professor in the Centre for Health Promotion Studies, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS). She received her PhD in Education from Dalhousie University in Halifax. She was trained as a registered dietitian (RD). Dr. Raine is an Applied Public Health Chair funded by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) and the

Heart and Stroke Foundation (HSF). Her research program, POWER (Promoting Optimal Weights through Ecological Research), explores the social determinants of the obesity epidemic, and population interventions to address healthy eating and active living. Dr. Raine’s research focuses on social determinants of health, qualitative and participatory methodologies in community health research, and theoretical contributions to a social change based approach to health promotion. She co-directs the Alberta Policy Coalition for Chronic Disease Prevention that advocates for policy interventions to create supportive environments for healthy living; served as President of the Alberta Public Health Association from 2009-2012, and was a member of the inaugural institute advisory board for the CIHR’s Institute of Nutrition, Metabolism and Diabetes (2001-2006).

Professor Chris Rissel

Chris Rissel is Director of the NSW Office of Preventive Health and Professor of Public Health with the School of Public Health, University of Sydney. The NSW Office of Preventive Health focuses on childhood and adult obesity prevention. Professor Rissel has a BSc (with Honours) in Psychology from UNSW, a Master of Public Health degree from Sydney University, and a PhD in Epidemiology (with a focus on community health promotion) from the University of Minnesota (USA). He has 25 years experience in all aspects of health promotion practice and research. Previously Chris was the Director of the Health Promotion Service, Sydney South West Area Health Service (2000-2011). He has been President of the NSW Branch of the Australian Health Promotion Association, and for six years was Editor-in-Chief of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia. His current research interests focus on obesity prevention and active transport, cycling advocacy, tobacco control and sexual health. He has a strong record of published research in the area of active travel and cycling, and is one of the authors of the national report ‘Cycling: Getting Australia Moving’.

Associate Professor Jan Ritchie

Jan Ritchie is an Honorary Associate Professor with the School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, an Adjunct Associate Professor with Griffith University, Queensland and an Honorary Fellow with Menzies School of Health Research, Northern Territory. She has accumulated 30 years’ experience in health promotion research and practice in Australia and Pacific island countries during which time she has held relevant positions as Associate Director of the National Centre for Health Promotion (1994-2000), Convenor of the Health Promotion Special Interest Group of the Public Health Association of Australia (1997-2000), National President of the Australian Health Promotion Association (AHPA) (2003-2005) and South West Pacific Regional Director of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE) (2004-2010). Her contribution to health promotion in Australia was acknowledged when she was awarded a Life Membership of AHPA in 2006. She has actively engaged in knowledge translation in public health and health promotion fields especially through editorship roles with the IUHPE’s Health Promotion and Education Online (2000-2007) and the Health Promotion Journal of Australia (2005-2008). Her passion is mentoring early career researchers in strengthening their health promotion skills in the area of qualitative health research.

Dagmar Schmitt

Dagmar Schmitt worked in the Health Promotion and Public Health field over the last 20 years both in New Zealand and Australia. She has been based in the Northern Territory Department of Health (NT DoH) since 2006, and has held positions both in Health Promotion and Environmental Health with that Department. Dagmar is currently the acting Director of the Health Development Branch in NT DoH, however her permanent nominal position is that of Program Leader for Health Promotion in the NT and as such she is responsible for setting the strategic direction, policy and frameworks for Health Promotion across the Northern Territory. Dagmar has a keen interest in systems approaches, co-generation and translation of research, Continuous Quality Improvement, Health Literacy and action on Social

Determinants of Health. Dagmar is currently a member of the Course Advisory Committee for the Batchelor of Health Science at Charles Darwin University (CDU), and has been appointed as an honorary university fellow associated the CDU School of Health for 3 years in December 2014. Dagmar holds a Batchelor of Applied Science, a Masters in Public Health and a Diploma in Management.

Associate Professor Louise Signal

Louise is a social scientist with a PhD in Community Health from the University of Toronoto. She has worked and done research in the field of health promotion for 25 years in a range of roles, including Senior Advisor (Health Promotion) for the New Zealand Ministry of Health. Her research interests include tackling inequalities in health, healthy public policy, health impact assessment, and healthy eating and healthy action. Louise is a Director of the Health Promotion and Policy Research unit (HePPRU) and Health, Wellbeing & Equity Impact Assessment Research Unit (HIA). Currently, Louise leads an HRC funded project that asks Is Junk Food Promoted Through Sport. Louise has a number of community service roles including chairing the Academic Committee of the Health Promotion Forum. She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in health promotion.

Dr David Sleet

David Sleet, Ph.D., is the Associate Director for Science for the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia and the senior advisor to the Division on matters of science and policy. Before joining CDC, he taught and conducted research in public health at San Diego State University, directed the Road Accident Research Unit at University of Western Australia, and was a visiting scientist at the US Dept Transportation and at VTT (the Road Safety

Agency) of Finland. He has published more than 175 articles related on injury prevention and health, and co-authored the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention, the Handbook of Injury and Violence Prevention, and Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories, Methods and Applications (with Andrea Gielen). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Health Behavior and on the Editorial Board of seven journals.

Associate Professor Ben Smith

Ben Smith is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. In his practice career Ben managed community-based programs to address a range of issues, including child immunization, drug and alcohol misuse, mental health, and healthy ageing, among others. He attained his Master of Public Health degree and PhD from the University of Sydney and since the mid-1990s he has focused on research and evaluation to improve the impact of health promotion policy and programs. Ben’s research interests include the impact of the mass media upon health beliefs and priorities, and the effectiveness of strategies to promote physical activity and prevent chronic diseases. He has been a consultant for Commonwealth and State Health Departments in Australia, VicHealth, Vision Australia and a number of overseas agencies. From 2008-2012 he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia.

Professor Mark Stevenson

Professor Stevenson is a leading injury epidemiologist and is the Director of the Monash University Accident Research Centre and a Professor in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. He is a National Health and Medical Research Council Fellow, an Honorary Professor at the Peking University Health Science Center and the Sydney Medical School, The University of Sydney. He is a Lifetime Fellow of the Australasian College of Road Safety. Prof Stevenson’s has extensive research experience in road trauma and considerable public health experience in low income countries, including as a consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and the Swedish International Development Agency. Prof Stevenson is an advisor for injury to the Director General of the World Health Organization and was part of the World Health Organization’s Editorial Committee for the World Report on Road Traffic Injury Prevention. He has worked on numerous national and international projects that have directly influenced road injury policy and is and worked with both Federal and State Governments in Australia and he is internationally recognized in the field of road injury research.

Carmel Williams

Ms Carmel Williams is Manager Strategic Partnerships (incorporating the work of the previous Health in All Policies Unit) within the South Australian Department of Health. From 2007 Carmel has led the development of South Australia's approach to HiAP, in partnership with colleagues from across government with support from Professor Ilona Kickbusch. This includes South Australia's focus on a win win outcome for both health and public policy partners and the development of the HiAP Health Lens Analysis model. Laterly her work is directed at systematising Health in all Policies as part of implementing the Public Health Act 2011, building capacity across the state and local government to act on the social determinants of health. Associate Professor Marilyn Wise

Marilyn Wise is an Associate Professor in the UNSW Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity, UNSW Australia. She has more than thirty years’ experience in health promotion practice, management, teaching, policy development and analysis, and research. She has worked with local communities, state and federal health departments, and has been a technical advisor in health promotion to WHO. She was also a member of the Board of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), and has been a long-standing member of the Australian Health Promotion Association and the Public Health Association of Australia. Her work has focused on identifying and building the capacity of

the health sector to promote health and to increase health equity. Most recently she has explored the role of health impact assessment in influencing health and other public policies, programs, and services to achieve greater equity and improved population health. And her PhD is exploring reasons for slow progress in achieving health equity for minority marginalised population groups.

Dr Tarun Weeramanthri

Professor Tarun Weeramanthri is Executive Director, Public Health and Clinical Services Division, WA Health. He has served as Chief Health Officer in two jurisdictions (Northern Territory 2004-2007, and Western Australia 2008-present). He has a PhD in social medicine, and is a Fellow of Leadership WA. He has a strong commitment to the public sector, innovation and partnerships to improve the health of the whole population, both in terms of life expectancy and quality of life. His mantra is ‘put the public back in public health’, and he sees new technology and social media as vital tools in that effort.

Dr Janette Young

Dr Janette Young is a lecturer in health promotion, health politics and health justice at the University of South Australia. She has a long history of working in the health and welfare fields prior to academia. Her research interests include animal (especially pets) and human interactions, civic engagement, discourse analysis of policy, the intersection of Health Promotion with other related fields of thinking.