Brendon is a Māori pharmacist and doctoral candidate at University of Auckland researching Indigenous models of diabetes care and pharmacist-facilitated medicine reviews. He is a member of the National Diabetes Network working across clinical practice, research, and governance to advance culturally grounded, equitable diabetes services for Māori and Indigenous communities.

Brendon is a Māori pharmacist and doctoral candidate at University of Auckland researching Indigenous models of diabetes care and pharmacist-facilitated medicine reviews. He is a member of the National Diabetes Network working across clinical practice, research, and governance to advance culturally grounded, equitable diabetes services for Māori and Indigenous communities.

Natasha works as a qualitative researcher and evaluator within a diabetes research team focusing on co-designing culturally appropriate models of care for First Nations youth living with type 2 diabetes. Edwina is a Peer Facilitator within the same team, supporting and educating young people in regional and remote settings.

Kelly Harris is a Project Manager at Diabetes WA, leading community‑centered initiatives that amplify lived experience and community involvement in service design. She has played a key role in developing Diabetes WA Community Network and advancing reconciliation‑focused projects. Kelly brings extensive experience in project management supporting statewide initiatives across WA.

Dr Desse is a health services and implementation science researcher and clinical pharmacist. His work focuses on exploring consumer and health system factors influencing management of cardiometabolic conditions, mainly diabetes, and development and evaluation of tailored scalable strategies. He currently works on digital social prescribing project to improve cardiometabolic outcomes.

Leah Pascoe is a rural health workforce specialist, public health student and lived experience advocate living with type 1 diabetes. She coordinates the Care Partnership Diabetes workforce program across Western NSW and advocates for equitable diabetes care through workforce development, community engagement and national lived experience advisory roles.

Dr Ajesh George is a Professor of Interprofessional Oral Health in the Faculty of Health, Western Sydney University (WSU). He is also the Director and Co-founder of the Australian Centre for Integration of Oral Health which is a leading national research centre led by WSU in collaboration with various partners.