Ann has 20 years of experience as a registered nurse. She is a CDE working in metropolitan acute care, rural community health and private practice. Ann has been a member of the ADEA-VIC Branch Executive for six years and is a member of the ADEA Victoria Branch Conference Organising Committee. She has represented the ADEA as a member of a health advisory panel working with the Victorian Department of Education and Training and is passionate about diabetes education. Ann believes in the sustainability of private practice. Her focus is ensuring the CDE role is evidence-based best practice and continues to support the lobbying and support for ADEA members.

Dr Huong Thi Giang Tran is the first female Vietnamese Doctor appointed as Director, Division of Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Control (DPC) at the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Dr Tran has been the Director General of the Department of International Cooperation of the Ministry of Health of Viet Nam for 11 years. With more than 28 years working experiences for the health sector of Viet Nam, she has led and managed international and Global health programs across the health sector, mobilizing and managing technical cooperation from development partners and working on different public health programmes, especially communicable disease control programmes and other public health programmes. She was the Chair of ASEAN SOMHD (Senior Officials Meeting on Health Development), Chair of APEC Health Working Group, and alternate member of the Executive Board of the World Health Assembly. She obtained the qualification of a Medical Doctor, specialized in pediatrics from Hanoi Medical University in Viet Nam in 1991, a Master of Public Health from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2000 and a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health from the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Viet Nam in 2008. She received the title of Associate Professorship in 2016 and was appointed as a Deputy Head of the Global Health Department of Hanoi Medical University from 2015 - 2019. From 2019 to 2025, as the Director of the Division of Programmes for Disease Control (DDC), she oversees all the disease control programmes at the WHO Regional Office, including vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization, Communicable Diseases, including TB, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STIs, Malaria and Vector-borne diseases, Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), Noncommunicable Diseases Management and Mental Health. From January 2026, she is appointed as the Director of the Division of Health promotion, Disease Prevention and control (DPC). Her Division portfolio spans from health promotion and policy, social determinants of health healthy settings, Noncommunicable Diseases prevention and control, Mental Health, Communicable Diseases control, Immunization, maternal and child health. Under her leadership, the DDC and now DPC have developed several Regional Strategic Frameworks on Immunization, Reaching the Unreached, Noncommunicable Diseases Prevention and Control and Mental Health. Dr Tran has led her teams to provide strategic leadership and technical expertise to support member states to achieve the Regional vision: "Weaving health for families, communities and societies in the Western Pacific".

Odette is an Eastern Yalanji and Erub Islander. Odette co-leads the Wardliparingga Aboriginal Health Equity Theme at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute & is an affiliate Professor at Adelaide University. Odette is a health services researcher working directly with communities on their research priorities, predominantly in South Australia, which includes a focus on preventing type 2 diabetes and improving management of type 2 diabetes with primary and secondary care health services.

Miss Erum Ghafoor is a globally recognized leader in diabetes care, education, and advocacy. Diagnosed with diabetes at 14, she transformed personal adversity into a lifelong mission of service. She currently serves as Vice President of the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) for Healthcare Professionals and President of the National Association of Diabetes Educators of Pakistan, becoming the first Pakistani woman elected IDF Vice President. A Certified Diabetes Educator and public health expert, she has established 27 philanthropy-based Type 1 diabetes clinics across Pakistan, providing free insulin and care to thousands. Her work continues to inspire hope and advance equitable diabetes care worldwide.