Ron Borland PhD is a Professor of Psychology in the School of Psychology at Deakin University. Prior to that he spent most of his career as a research scientist at the Cancer Council Victoria, 19 years as the Nigel Gray Distinguished Fellow in Cancer Prevention. He has published over 500 peer-reviewed papers, most on aspects of health behaviour change. He has been listed in the Web of Science list of the World’s most influential scientists. He takes a broad systems approach to behaviour and behaviour change, integrating efforts at individual and population levels. His expertise spans the impact of social and regulatory impacts on behaviour through to the challenges individuals personally face. He is best known for his work in tobacco control. He has developed a range of mass-disseminable smoking cessation interventions, including the QuitCoach a demonstrably effective automated intervention. He is one of the Principal Investigators of the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project: an international collaboration that has helped quantify the impacts of government policies on smoking that has also led to better understanding of the challenges of supporting smoking cessation and preventing relapse. He has a special interest in harm minimisation strategies and strategies to assist highly disadvantaged groups. He has developed CEOS theory: a comprehensive theory of Hard to Maintain Behaviour Change.

Professor Coral Gartner is an international expert in tobacco control policy and is the Director of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame (Tobacco Endgame CRE), an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and the Chair of the Interdisciplinary Tobacco Endgame Research Network funded by an NHMRC Synergy Grant. She the chair of the Editorial Advisory Board for the BMJ journal, Tobacco Control, after serving as a senior editor from 2012-2018 and then the Australasian regional editor. She is a Past President of the Oceania Chapter of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT-O).