Dr Cristyn Davies is a Research Fellow in the Specialty of Child and Adolescent Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney Children’s Hospital Westmead Clinical School, NSW, Australia. She is a researcher at the Wellbeing, Health, and Youth National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Research Excellence in Adolescent Health, and a member of the Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute at the University of Sydney. She is also an adjunct in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University, NSW, Australia.

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.

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.