Prof Yuming Guo is a distinguished professor of Global Environmental Health and Biostatistics in Monash University and the Head of the Monash Climate, Air Quality Research Unit. His research focuses on environmental epidemiology, biostatistics, and the impacts of air pollution, climate change, and residential environment on human health. He has developed and participated in several large international collaborations aimed at environmental health assessment and has published over 500 papers in prestigious international journals (e.g., NEJM, Lancet, BMJ and Nature), with high citations and an H-index of 100. Prof Guo has received numerous awards and accolades for his work, including Reuters Hot List of The World’s Top Climate Scientists, Tony McMichael Award by International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, and Research Excellence Award by Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. He is a Leadership Fellow of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council and a member of Think Tank for Climate Change and Human Health in Australia. He is an Associate/Academic Editor for PLOS Medicine, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Environment International, The Innovation, and Environment & Health. He is an Adjunct Professor at The University of Melbourne, The University of Queensland, National University of Singapore, and The University of Oulu.

Guy Marks is a respiratory and public health physician and epidemiologist. His main research interests are in chronic respiratory disease, tuberculosis and the adverse health effects of exposure to air pollution. He is currently a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Investigator (L3). He is Scientia Professor at School of Clinical Medicine, UNSW, Sydney. He is also President of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

Professor Lowe is a Dame Kate Campbell Fellow and Co-Head of the University of Melbourne’s Allergy and Lung Health Unit. He is the principal investigator (PI) of the PEBBLES trial, a NHMRC funded clinical trial using a novel skin barrier intervention for the prevention of eczema, food allergy and asthma. Adrian’s research addresses the natural history of allergic diseases in childhood, and what might have caused the rapid rise in the prevalence of these conditions over the last four decades.

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.

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. He is an academic and clinical epidemiologist with a PhD in clinical epidemiology and population health from the esteemed University of Melbourne. He also has an MPH in Epidemiology and a clinical background in Dental Surgery. His research focuses on respiratory health, occupational lung diseases, and exposure science. Dr Alif has contributed to over 40 peer-reviewed publications and several nationally impactful technical reports. With over 14 years of teaching experience in several public health subjects at the University of Melbourne, Monash University, and overseas, he has coordinated multiple units, including health promotion, planetary health, occupational and environmental medicine, epidemiology of chronic diseases, advanced epidemiology, and biostatistics.

Eve Denton is a consultant Respiratory, Sleep and Allergy Physician at the Alfred Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospitals in Melbourne. She is the clinical lead for the Severe Asthma Service at the Alfred Hospital and the current Asthma and Allergy SIG convener for the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand. During training she completed a Masters of Public Health at Monash University focusing on epidemiology, biostatistics and clinical research and culminating in a minor thesis in lung cancer epidemiology based at St Vincent’s Hospital. After finishing her specialty training she completed a two year Clinical and Research Fellowship at the Alfred Hospital focusing on Allergy and Asthma. She has an interest in inducible laryngeal obstruction and is involved in the Alfred Hospital ILO clinic and Exercise-induced Laryngeal Obstruction Service. She has recently completed her PhD in the area of Severe Asthma and is engaged in post-doctoral research collaborations with the International Severe Asthma Registry examining real-world response to asthma biologics and with the Australasian Severe Asthma Registry examining the impact of comorbidities on severe asthma.