Michael Abramson is Emeritus Professor in the School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne. He is interested in effects of air pollution upon respiratory health and for 9 years led the Hazelwood Health Study, investigating long-term health effects of a fire in an open-cut brown coal mine.

Dr. Christian Aloe is a postdoctoral scientist at RMIT University, working within the Centre for Respiratory Science and Health (CRSH). His research focuses on identifying biomarkers and molecular mechanisms driving pulmonary fibrosis, aiming to develop innovative therapeutic strategies that enhance patient outcomes in this complex disease.

Dr Ryan Hoy is the lead physician for the Occupational Respiratory Clinic at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Monash University Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, where he is chief investigator for the Victorian silica-associated disease Registry.

Barbara is a biostatistician with more than 15 years of professional experience ranging from the government to the university sector. Before joining Flinders University she provided statistical advice and support to her colleagues at Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), UNSW, Sydney and National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), UNSW, Sydney. Barbara is also the former president of the South Australia branch of Statistical Society Australia. Her current research interests are analyzing sleep measures and disorders, breathlessness, using meta-analysis, mixed models and count models.

Dr Jingwen Zhang is an early career researcher focused on respiratory epidemiology.

Dr Cheng Zhao is an early-career researcher supervised by A/Prof Luke Knibbs and Prof Tamera Corte at the University of Sydney, with her primary research interest in health geography. Her current research focuses on diagnostic clustering and socio-environmental factors associated with interstitial lung disease.

Dr Sheikh M Alif is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the Institute of Health and Wellbeing, Federation University Australia and a Research Fellow of Respiratory Science at the University of Melbourne. Alif is an early-career occupational and respiratory epidemiologist specialising in exposure assessment and its impact on chronic diseases in longitudinal studies. Alif has over 16 years of research experience studying exposure assessment in multiple occupations where people are exposed to pesticides, solvents, lead, asbestos, coal mine dust and silica.

Ms Janet Williams has formal qualifications in nursing and education, and is active in both public and private health systems. Specialising in respiratory, smoking cessation and lung health education and promotion, as well as quality systems and clinical governance for almost twenty years Appointed manager of the Lung Health Promotion Centre at the Alfred Hospital in March 2015, Janet manages and presents with world-class health professionals a diverse programme of specialist and general lung health and education seminars and courses. The Lung Health Promotion Centre at The Alfred, unique in Australia is a leading centre for courses related to Smoking Cessation, Asthma, COPD and Spirometry, as well as patient engagement and education methods, motivational interviewing and positive psychology