Professor Alistair Woodward is the Chair of the National Screening Advisory Committee for the Ministry of Health. Professor Woodward graduated in medicine from the University of Adelaide and undertook Public Health Medicine Training in the United Kingdom. Professor Woodward was a member of the National Health Committee for six years and currently is on the Board of the Health Research Council. Professor Woodward’s main interests are in epidemiology, cancer control and environmental health. For three years he chaired the Evaluation Group for the Australian National Breast Cancer Screening Programme. He has also participated in planning and evaluation of screening programmes for colorectal cancer and prostate cancer.

Professor Simon Chapman, School of Public Health, University of Sydney

Simon Chapman is an Australian academic and Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney. He is author of 13 books and major government reports, 202 papers and 127 letters and commentaries in peer reviewed journals. Chapman is a regular writer on public health matters in leading Australian newspapers, having written 140 opinion page and journalistic articles since 1981. His main research interests are in tobacco control, media discourses on health and illness, and risk communication. He teaches annual courses in Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco Control in the University of Sydney's MPH program.

Associate Professor Papaarangi Reid, Tumuaki/Deputy Dean Maori, Te Kupenga Hauora Maori, School of Population Health, University of Auckland

Papaarangi is Tumuaki (Deputy Dean Māori) at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences and Head of Te Kupenga Hauora Māori at the University of Auckland. She holds science and medical degrees from the University of Auckland and is a specialist in public health medicine. She has tribal affiliations to Te Rarawa in the North and her research interests include analysing disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous citizens as a means of monitoring Government commitment to indigenous rights.

Professor David Roder, Group Executive, Research and Information Science, Cancer Council South Australia

Professor David Roder is the Group Executive, Research and Information Science, at the Cancer Council South Australia. He also works under contract for Cancer Australia, the National Breast Cancer Centre and the Cancer Institute NSW and has Professorial status at Flinders University.

Professor Roder was Director of the South Australian Epidemiology Branch from 1980 to 2001 where he administered the State Cancer Registry and established the SA clinical registry network. He was a Board member of the International Association of Cancer Registries from 1996 to 2000, while also Chairman of the Australasian Association of Cancer Registries. Professor Roder has been an international consultant on cancer registration for WHO and maintains ongoing consultancy roles with cancer registries in Mongolia and the Malaysian States of Penang and Sarawak.

Professor Roder is presently a member of the Australian BreastScreen Evaluation Advisory Committee, the National Quality Management Committee of BreastScreen, and the SA BreastScreen Accreditation Committee, and is Chairman of the Cervical Screening National Safety Monitoring Committee. He also Chairs the NSW Cancer Screening Advisory Committee and was Chairman of the Review of the National Pilot Bowel Screening Register in 2004. Professor Roder is the current Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Biostatistics Collaboration of Australia and the Clinical Registries Advisory Committee of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.   
 
Professor Roder has authored approximately 160 peer-reviewed journal publications, predominantly on cancer. He was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2000 for contributions made to cancer epidemiology. He has served on numerous technical committees of the NHMRC, the Cancer Council Australia, state/territory governments and the NZ Health Research Council.

Professor Roder has presented papers and chaired sessions at a number of national and international scientific forums and supervised postgraduate students at both Masters and Doctoral level. He regularly reviews cancer papers for international journals.

Professor Greg Leigh, BEd (Griffith), MSc (Washington), PhD (Monash), FACE. Chair, RIDBC Renwick Centre/Conjoint Professor of Special Education, University of Newcastle; Chair of the Australian Newborn Hearing Screening Committee

Professor Greg Leigh is Chair of RIDBC Renwick Centre for Research and Professional Education. The Centre, located in Sydney, is a joint facility of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children and The University of Newcastle, Australia. He holds degrees in Special Education from Griffith University; a Master of Science (Speech and Hearing) degree from Washington University (Central Institute for the Deaf) in the USA; and a PhD in Special Education from Monash University. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators.
 
Professor Leigh has had a distinguished career in education of the deaf and has published widely in this field. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Deafness and Education International. He serves on numerous Australian government consultative committees on issues related to deafness and is currently chairman of the Australian National Newborn Hearing Screening Committee.  He is a former National President of the Education Commission for the World Congress of the World Federation of the Deaf and is Chair of the International Steering Committees of both the Asia-Pacific Congress on Deafness (APCD) and the International Congress on Education of the Deaf (ICED). In 2003 he was International Visiting Scholar at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (Rochester Institute of Technology) in Rochester, New York.