Dr Cristyn Davies (she/her) is a Senior Research Fellow in the Specialty of Child and Adolescent Health at the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School. She is also an adjunct in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. Cristyn is President of the Australian Association for Adolescent Health, co-convenor of the Child and Youth Health Special Interest Group of the Public Health Association of Australia, co-convenor of the Australian Professional Association for Trans Health Research Committee, and a member of the Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute at the University of Sydney. Cristyn has expertise in gender and sexuality diversity, sexual and reproductive health, vaccination for young people, and knowledge translation and implementation science. She is committed to using evidence-based research to close the gap between research and its translation into policy and practice.

Dr Cate Rayner is a Paediatrician, the Director of the Department of Adolescent Medicine and the co-director of the RCH Gender Service. Cate has expertise in Eating Disorder care, gender affirming care, neurodiversity and mental health. She is passionate about improving access to high quality care for adolescents, and leading service improvement in collaboration with those with lived and living experience. She is also a Medical Educator, and uses teaching to advocate for her patients more broadly.

Dr Rebecca Abrahall is a late-stage Advanced Trainee in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine. Rebecca is the current Adolescent Fellow at the Queensland Children’s Gender Service and the Mater Young Adult Health Centre in Brisbane. She has previously worked in the Gender Diversity Service at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Adelaide and is passionate about providing strengths-based and holistic care to gender diverse young people.

Sam (they/them) is a young queer and disabled/chronically ill person who is passionate about trans and disability rights. They have lived experience within the gender healthcare system, and are also neurodiverse.

Professor Rachel Skinner (she/her) is a paediatrician specialist in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and the Clinical Stream Medical Director of Priority Populations at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network. She is Conjoint Professor with Sydney University’s Speciality of Child and Adolescent Health. She is the clinical lead of the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network Trans and Gender Diverse Service. Rachel is an international expert in adolescent sexual and reproductive health and immunisation and one of the nation’s leading youth health experts. Prof Skinner is Deputy Director of the Wellbeing Health & Youth NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence (WH&Y) When Rachel was the NSW Ministry of Health’s Senior Clinical Advisor in Youth Health from 2017-2023, she advised on all components of NSW Health’s review and implementation of gender services for young people 2020-2023.

Alex Haslam is a Professor of Psychology and Australian Laureate Fellow at the University of Queensland. He is an Associate Editor of Leadership Quarterly and a former Chief Editor of the European Journal of Social Psychology. His research focuses on the study of group and identity processes in social, organizational and clinical contexts. Together with colleagues, he has written and edited 15 books and over 300 peer-reviewed articles on these topics that have been cited nearly 70,000 times. His most recent books are The New Psychology of Leadership: Identity, Influence and Power (2nd ed. Psychology Press, 2020, with Steve Reicher & Michael Platow), and The New Psychology of Health: Unlocking the Social Cure (Routledge, 2018, with Catherine Haslam, Jolanda Jetten, Tegan Cruwys, & Genevieve Dingle). In 2022 Alex was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia “for significant service to higher education, particularly psychology, through research and mentoring”. Alex will be presenting some of his work on loneliness and its impact on young people.