Professor Charlotte Hespe PhD, MBBS (Hons), FRACGP, DCH (Lon), FAICD, GCUT (UNDA) is Head of General Practice and Primary Care Research for the Sydney School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Australia (UNDA). She is responsible for establishing and overseeing a research network specialising in implementing best practice guidelines in General Practice for topics such as preventive care, CVD and Respiratory illnesses. She is also an active GP Clinician and Practice Owner of a medium-sized general practice of 12 Dr (8 FTE) / 3 Practice nurses/ 3 PT Allied health practitioners in Inner City Sydney (Glebe Family Medical Practice, GFMP). She also works as a Deputy Director of Professional Services Review, Clinical Lead for Australian Digital Health Agency, and advisor to the NSW Health Department for GP related issues such as the Lumos project and Cancer Institute Primary Care Advisory Panel. Her General Practice (GFMP) is a teaching Practice for Medical students and GP Registrars in the RACGP training program. Her clinic is a leading general practice in Central and Eastern Sydney PHN and won RACGP Practice of the Year, NSW/ACT, in 2018. In 2024 Charlotte was awarded Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the General Division, For significant service to general medicine as a practitioner, academic and mentor. Professor Hespe was also recognised on 2024 year’s COVID-19 Honour Roll for her work leading the COVID-19 response in NSW/ACT.

Dr. Kimberly Humphrey is an emergency medicine physician and public health practitioner, and works as the Public Health Medical Consultant and Climate Lead for SA Health. She was a 2022-2023 Fellow in Climate Change and Human Health at Harvard University, and is dedicated to addressing the complex relationship between climate change, health and health systems. She is a Board member of Doctors for the Environment Australia and holds numerous national and international committee and board appointments in emergency medicine, public health, and climate change. Dr. Humphrey is a champion of high-quality, low-carbon care and believes that climate solutions are health system solutions which can address many problems faced in our health systems.

Professor Hubertus Jersmann graduated in Germany and completed his physician training and his PhD in Australia. He practices respiratory and sleep medicine at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and also visits Alice Springs Hospital every 2 months for the past 14 years. Professor Jersmann is an Interventional Pulmonologist, performing procedures such as endobronchial lung volume reduction and other procedures. His research comprises clinical trials, where he is the principal investigator for all Asthma studies and is part of the Lung Research Laboratory, studying mechanisms of lung inflammation and the role of macrophage phenotypes in lung cancer. As a teacher Professor Jersmann lectures in the Medical Program of the University of Adelaide, where he inaugurated the curriculum content on Climate Change and Health in 2009. He lectures at both, Flinders University of South Australia and the University of Adelaide. His passion outside medicine is conservation and sustainability, He cycles to work every day, is a vegetarian, composts and recycles, has a photovoltaic solar system, 2 home batteries, solar hot water and three battery electric vehicles.

Danielle Wurzel is a Respiratory Consultant at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Early Career Researcher within the Allergy and Lung Health Unit, The University of Melbourne and Honorary Senior Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She has clinical expertise in the assessment and management of acute and chronic respiratory diseases in children. Dr Wurzel completed a PhD in chronic wet cough and bronchiectasis and her ongoing research investigates the role of early life events in the pathogenesis of paediatric chronic lung diseases. She leads a number of NHMRC/MRFF funded studies and is CIA on an NHMRC Clinical Trials and Cohort multi-centre study to investigate the early life risk factors for lung disease in First Nations (Indigenous) Australian children. Dr Wurzel is a member of several sub-committees and working groups including Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand, Lung Foundation Australia and Therapeutic Guidelines Limited.