Dr Melinda Judge is a postdoctoral research fellow with the Future Child Health team at The Kids Research Institute Australia. During her PhD, Dr Judge performed geospatial analysis using large health datasets to assess determinants of child health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, and now applies these skills in her current role. Her research focuses on investigating the effects of climate change on child health outcomes at local, national and global scales.

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.

Professor Peter Sly is the Director, Children's Health and Environment Program and Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Children's Health and Environment. Professor Sly is a NHMRC Leadership Fellow and an Emeritus paediatric respiratory physician with extensive research experience in respiratory physiology, developmental immunology and children's environmental health. Professor Sly’s research aims to understand the mechanisms underlying chronic childhood lung diseases in order to improve clinical management and to delay or prevent their onset, with consequent reductions in adult lung diseases. A combination of basic science, longitudinal cohort studies and translation of research findings into clinical practice, including clinical trials, are included in three main areas: asthma, cystic fibrosis and children’s environmental health Professor Sly is an advisor to the World Health Organisation Department of Public Health, Environmental and Social Determinants of Disease and currently serves on International Advisory Boards and committees, including: WHO network of Collaborating Centres in Children’s Environmental Health; Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, Canada; the Infant Lung Health Study, Paarl, South Africa; and A SHARED Future: Achieving Strength, Health, and Autonomy, through Renewable Energy Development for the Future.

Dr Ramaa Puvvadi is a Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Physician currently working at Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide. Dr Ramaa Puvvadi has completed MD and FRACP in Paediatrics. She completed her training in Respiratory Medicine from Perth along with PhD in cystic fibrosis at The University of Western Australia. Her special interest is in the area of sleep medicine and airway abnormalities. Her main objective is to deliver high standard Respiratory and Sleep services to children and improve quality of life for children and their families.