Dr Parackal is a Public Health Nutritionist specialising in the epidemiology and prevention of diet-related noncommunicable diseases. She has extensive experience designing, implementing, and evaluating diabetes and cardiovascular disease prevention programmes across diverse community and healthcare settings, with a strong focus on culturally appropriate, evidence-informed, codesigned interventions.

Dr. Weiwei Gui is a clinician–scientist specializing in endocrinology and metabolic diseases. Her research focuses on metabolic dysfunction–associated liver disease and the molecular mechanisms linking autophagy, lysosomal pathways, and obesity-related disorders.

Arun Jones is a health economist at Griffith university, presenting work co-authored with Juntao Lyu (Melbourne University) and Hansoo Kim (Bond University)

Dr Dunya Tomic is an epidemiologist at Monash University whose research focuses on diabetes and work participation. She is a member of the IDF Diabetes Atlas Committee and leads population-based studies examining how diabetes affects employment and socioeconomic outcomes in Australia and internationally.

Michael Stoneham is a Health Economist at Diabetes Australia, where he leads a comprehensive economic research study of the societal and economic impacts of diabetes in Australia. Michael has over eight years of experience working in the health economics field and specialises in quantitative analysis and evaluation design.

Dr Sarah Brennan is a third year endocrinology advanced trainee and clinician-researcher at Royal North Shore Hospital.