Dr Farnaz Sabet is an academic General Practitioner with global health expertise. She is Vice President (MENA) of the International Association for Adolescent Health and is a Global Health Fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She has worked extensively in global health and policy including for the United National High Commission on Refugees, the International Rescue Committee and Prime Minister and Cabinet in Australia. Farnaz received her medical degree from Monash University, a Masters in Global Health Science from Oxford University and a PhD from The University of Melbourne which was awarded the Chanceller’s Prize. Her PhD was on adolescent maternal and newborn health with a focus on participatory women’s groups in India and their effectiveness for pregnant adolescents. Her work has helped bring global attention to the needs of pregnant girls.

Professor Simon Denny is Director of the Mater Young Adult Health Centre, a Paediatrician, and an Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine (AYAM) Physician. He is the past Chair of the RACP AYAM Committee and is the Chair of the RACP Youth Appropriate Health Care Working Group.