Dr. Zulfiqar A. Bhutta PhD, MBBS, FRCPCH, FAAP, FRS, is the Robert Harding Inaugural Chair in Global Child Health and Policy at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, and the Co-Director of the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health. He is also the Distinguished University Professor and Founding Director of the Institute for Global Health and Development and the Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health, at the Aga Khan University, unique joint appointments. He also holds adjunct professorships at several leading Universities globally including the Schools of Public Health at Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), George Washington University (DC), Boston University School of Public Health, University of Alberta as well as the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

Diane Gray is an Associate Professor and clinical researcher in the Division of Pulmonology, Department of Paediatrics, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Her work focuses on improving paediatric respiratory health in Africa through better understanding the drivers of lung disease and how this can be prevented. This has focussed on high burden conditions including tuberculosis, HIV, sickle cell disease and prematurity-associated lung disease. Her work has included establishing infant and preschool lung function in Africa and in capacitating it’s use as a diagnostic tool through research, training and advocacy. Her team have collected some of the first infant and early life lung function trajectory data, the first from LMIC settings where respiratory disease burden is high. She prioritises transformative capacity building in all aspects of her clinical and research work and currently leads the Paediatric Pulmonology training program for the African Paediatric Fellowship Program, University of Cape Town.

Michael Abramson is now Emeritus Professor in the School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine at Monash University in Melbourne. He is also an honorary respiratory physician at the Alfred hospital. He has a long standing research interest in the effects of air pollution upon respiratory health and for 9 years led the Hazelwood Health Study, which investigated the long-term health effects of a fire in an open-cut brown coal mine. He was Deputy Chair of the Working Party that wrote the TSANZ position statement on Asthma and Landscape Fire Smoke.

Grace is the Scientific Director for the Mater Health Services Respiratory and Sleep Laboratory in Brisbane, Queensland. She is the current ANZSRS President and Director of Communications. Grace is dedicated to mentoring the next generation of scientist and has an interest in physiology and teaching.

BMedSci BMBS MSc AFRACMA FRCP FRACP PhD FThorSoc Prof Natasha Smallwood is a consultant respiratory physician at the Alfred Hospital (Melbourne, Australia), Professor of Respiratory Medicine and Head of the Chronic Respiratory Disease Research Group at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). In addition to her respiratory qualifications, she holds postgraduate qualifications in Medical Leadership, Epidemiology and Palliative Care. Prof Smallwood has authored over 140 publications and been awarded approximately $11 million as major research grants. She has clinical and research interests in severe lung disease, particularly chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and interstitial lung disease. Prof Smallwood is the incoming President for the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, a Board Director for the Victorian Doctors Health Program (Australia), and holds multiple leadership roles. She is a taskforce member for various national and international respiratory guidelines. She recently worked with the Australian Commission for Safety and Quality in Healthcare to develop the first ever national clinical care standard in respiratory medicine for people with COPD.