A/Prof Cathy Segan (BA Hons, PhD (Psychology), MAPS) is Quit’s Senior Behavioural Scientist. She is a co-author of the Australian National Minimum Quitline Standards. Cathy also co-authors Quitline counselling protocols to tailor for the needs of priority groups including people living with chronic diseases, mental illness, or substance use disorders and for pregnant people as well as for people who are vaping. She is an investigator on numerous translational research trials examining the effectiveness of these counselling protocols in real world contexts. She is also involved in health services research aimed at implementing best practice smoking cessation care.

Kristin is the Director of Research at Women's and Children's Hospital Respiratory Department and Director of Houd Research Group, specialising in evidence translation and technology supported intervention development and implementation.

Dr Nia Luxton is a senior lecturer, a senior cardiorespiratory physiotherapist, and a passionate advocate for smoking and vaping cessation in education and health. Dr Luxton is the education officer for the the Oceania Chapter of the Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco, a member of the Academic Development Working Group Council of Academic Public Health Institutions Australasia and a member of the Australian College of Physiotherapists, Australian Physiotherapy Association. Her clinical and research expertise and interest are in cancer, COPD, cardiovascular disease and tobacco control. Dr Luxton has a BSc Hons (Physiotherapy, Ulster 1993), MAppSc (COPD and exercise testing; USYD 2009) and a PhD in Psychology (Macquarie University 2019) and has received media attention for her research and editorials on smoking cessation.

Professor Shah is a Community Physician and Director and Founder of the Prevention Education and Research Unit (PERU), Research and Education Network at Westmead Hospital, Sydney. Her career is devoted to education and research-based preventive practices for achieving health equity in culturally and linguistically diverse and disadvantaged communities. Her work in adolescents in schools promotes health and wellbeing through evidence-based programs and builds leadership skills in young people to self-manage and prevent disease. Professor Shah is a current recipient of the Order of Australia Medal, in June 2022 for her work in community health. She is also recipient of the prestigious TSANZ President’s Award, in recognition as “an outstanding respiratory health advocate”. Professor Shah has been on several committees of the TSANZ and the American Thoracic Society. She is currently an executive member of the Blacktown and Hills Doctors’ Associations and the Australian Indian Medical Graduates Association. She has peer reviewed journals including Archives of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, British Medical Journal, European Respiratory Journal, and Medical Journal of Australia.