Professor Paul Kelly is the Australian Government’s Chief Medical Officer. He is a public health physician and epidemiologist who has been a researcher, health systems developer, post-graduate teacher and a health executive in Australia and internationally. He has advised the Commonwealth Government and the National Cabinet during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eddie Holmes is an NHMRC Leadership Fellow at the University of Sydney, which he joined in 2012. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA) in 2015 and of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017. He received the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science in 2021.

Paul is an Infectious Diseases Physician who was seconded to the Victorian Department of Health in the COVID crisis of July 2020. He set up 6 new regional public health units and has since become the inaugural Director the North Eastern Public Health Unit, one of 9 local public health units together form a new decentralised Victorian public health network.

Professor Dominic Dwyer is a virologist and infectious diseases physician at Westmead Hospital. He has an interest in viral diseases of public health importance, including SARS-CoV-2, influenza, respiratory viruses, HIV, antiviral drug resistance and arboviruses. He was a member of the WHO Joint Mission on SARS-CoV-2 Origins in Wuhan in 2021.

Paul Young is Professor of Virology and Head of the School of Chemistry & Molecular Biosciences at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. He gained his PhD from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and joined the University of Queensland in 1991. His research aims to understand the molecular basis of virus induced disease, develop new and improved diagnostics as well as vaccine and therapeutic control strategies for a number of viral pathogens of both human and animal origin. Prof Young is Chair of the Virology Division of the International Union of Microbiological Societies and has been the President of the Australian Society for Microbiology (2012-2014), the Australasian Virology Society (2001-2011) and the Asia-Pacific Society for Medical Virology (2012-2015).