Dr. Esther Achieng Onyango is an interdisciplinary researcher with interests in using systems thinking and trans-disciplinary approaches in climate change risk assessments, development of climate change adaptation strategies and translation of climate change and health research into policy. Her current research interests lie in developing planetary health frameworks to operationalise climate change and vector borne disease research for policy and practice, and she is a contributor to the 6th Assessment Report of the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, Working Group II on Impacts, Vulnerability and Adaptation. Esther is currently a Research Fellow at the Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security, Griffith University and is also affiliated with the Griffith Climate and Health Collective and the Griffith Systems Modelling Group.  

Dr Edward Morgan is a Research Fellow at the Cities Research Institute and the Griffith Climate Change Response Program at Griffith University, Australia. His research focusses on landscape planning and governance to address environmental issues, including forest protection, sustainable development and natural resource management. He is currently undertaking interdisciplinary, participatory action research that is developing, implementing and evaluating landscape planning and governance for forest protection to support sustainable community development and climate change mitigation and adaptation in case studies in the Amazon, Melanesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Dr Michael Sievers is a marine ecologist with the Global Wetlands Project (GLOW) at Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. His research focusses on coastal wetland ecology (primarily seagrasses, mangroves and saltmarshes), ranging from conducting assessments to determine ecosystem health to running small-scale, multi-stressor experiments. Dr Sievers was recently awarded an Australian Research Council DECRA for a project on improving coastal ecosystem restoration outcomes by shifting focus towards animals and harnessing positive species interactions.   

Dr Hengky Salim is an early career researcher specialising in waste management, and environmental management at Griffith University and The University of Queensland. He uses different approaches in tackling these problems such as systems thinking, system dynamics, and serious gaming. His PhD thesis was awarded an excellence award and his publications have gained significant media attention. 

Dr Elise Stephenson is a multi award winning researcher and entrepreneur, currently based at the Global Institute for Women's Leadership at the Australian National University. Elise's research focuses on gender, sexuality and leadership in frontier international relations and public policy, and spans research on space policy, to diplomacy, national security, intelligence, security vetting, international representation, and the Asia Pacific. She is interested in how Australia engages with the world - as well as whom is at the forefront of that engagement. 

Helen is a research fellow working in both threatened species management and the eco-epidemiology of infectious diseases. Her work centres around informing decisions on biodiversity conservation and human health (primarily Neglected Tropical Diseases),and exploring how these fields could coordinate to achieve mutual gains for people and the environment. Her aim is to facilitate evidence-based decisions in these fields by making data modelling and decisions science more accessible to decision-makers. She currently a research fellow at the both the UQ school of Public Health and UQ School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, and is an affiliated researcher with the Griffith Systems Modelling group and the QUT Centre for Data Science.  

Christopher is a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of Queensland and the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science. He has a background in spatial ecology, landscape-scale conservation, and decision science ranging from studying reptile movement patterns and habitat selection to working on private land management practices and making structured environmental decisions. He has also studied the unrecognised benefits of predators and scavengers in human-dominated landscapes and the unique contribution of apex scavengers to ecosystems and human health. 

Ama is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science at the University of Queensland. Ama is interested in cross-sectoral management approaches for conservation and how they can be used to deliver benefits for both human and ecosystem health. Her project focuses on Fiji, where she hopes to develop an optimised watershed management framework to provide improvements in water safety, disease prevention and marine ecosystem health. 

Natalie Osborne is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Built Environment at Griffith University, teaching and researching in environmental planning and critical geography. Her interests include: social, spatial, and environmental justice in cities; just transitions; radical spatial politics; insurgent planning; more-than-human publics; emotional geographies; public spaces; and public feelings. She is also co-producer of Radio Reversal, a critical theory and politics program broadcast on 4ZZZ 102.1FM, and an organiser with the Brisbane Free University. 

Dr Alison Peel is a wildlife disease ecologist with an interest in the dynamics and drivers of infectious disease, particularly in bats. By focusing at the intersections between natural and human systems, her research as part of the Bat One Health team aims to understand the root drivers of bat viral dynamics  and ways in which we can preempt and prevent spillover. In particular, she focuses on ecological drivers of viral community dynamics of Hendra virus and other bat paramyxoviruses in Australian flying foxes. Dr Peel is an Australian Research Council DECRA Research Fellow at the Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia.

Ms Rafaela Barbosa de Andrade Aragao is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Planetary Health and Food Security at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia. She is an environmental scientist with an interest in the deforestation process associated with agricultural expansion. Her PhD research aims to understand the role of information in deforestation happening in the Brazilian Cerrado (tropical savanna). In particular, she focuses on soy farmers’ mental models of deforestation. 

Dr Chantelle Bayes is an interdisciplinary researcher in the environmental humanities whose research interests span more-than-human geography, environmental philosophy, critical animals studies, creative writing and urban ecocriticism. Her current research focuses on how we can reimagine the urban as a multispecies community. Chantelle is an adjunct research in the Centre for Social and Cultural Research at Griffith University, the Secretary of the Australasian Animal Studies Association, and a sessional lecturer at Griffith University and Griffith College. 

Ed’s veterinary practice and infectious disease research have been underpinned by compassionate wonder for our inter-connected natural world and driven by innate curiosity in the physio-pathologic, microbiological, and epidemiological basis of health and disease. His collaborative transdisciplinary inquiry-focused research approaches to infectious disease science and epidemiology are shaped by lived experience farming, caring, and breeding livestock, wildlife health, clinical veterinary practice, teaching and mentoring. His research fosters ethnographic understanding of perspectives of those operating at varying levels managing animal, ecological and human health to guide culturally conscious improvements in ground level experience for patients, carers, nature, and communities.