Professor Susan M Sawyer AM MBBS MD FRACP FAAHMS holds the chair of Adolescent Health at The University of Melbourne and is director of the Centre for Adolescent Health, a WHO collaborating centre for adolescent health at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute.

Melody Taba is a Research Fellow at the Sydney Health Literacy Lab, University of Sydney. Her research focuses on digital health communication to young people and developing interventions to support their digital health literacy skills, especially in the context of new and emerging technologies like social media and AI.

Maša holds a PhD in Psychology, with expertise in adolescent online risks. She is currently working as Senior Advisor – Digital Literacy and Online Safety at the Alannah & Madeline Foundation.

Emily provides research and administrative support to the RCH Health Literacy team. She provides research support to the National Child Health poll through survey writing and analysis of results. She also works closely with other members of the team to manage youth engagement work.

Sarita Bista is a researcher and biostatistician at Black Dog Institute. Her research focuses on adolescent mental health and wellbeing, risk-taking, and digital behaviours, using evidence-based and advanced statistical methods including longitudinal and trajectory modelling to identify distinct patterns and behavioural subgroups and their predictors and different outcomes.

Nichola is a speech-language pathologist, lecturer, and PhD candidate at The University of Sydney. Her research looks at at the experiences of social interaction for 12-18 year olds with a language disorder in Australia.