Sally Bullock
Sally is a senior analyst as the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and has worked on a range of projects relating to population health, and functioning and disability. She has played key roles in the coordination and analysis of national administrative data sets and has considerable skills in data collection, analysis and reporting for program and policy analysis. For the last 18 months, Sally has managed the Institute's rural health and international health work program. She is a co-author of the forthcoming AIHW publication, A snapshot of men’s health in regional and remote Australia

Gary Dowsett
Professor Gary W. Dowsett, PhD, FASSA, is Deputy Director at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University. From 2002 to 2009 Professor Dowsett was also Associate Professor in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University in New York. A sociologist, he has long been interested in sexuality research, particularly in relation to the rise of modern gay communities.

Since 1986, he has been researching the HIV epidemic, particularly in Australia's gay communities, and has worked on many international HIV/AIDS and sexual health projects since the late 1980s, including as a consultant to WHO’s then Global Programme on AIDS in Geneva, and as an adviser to other WHO programs, to the United Nations Development Programme and the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS).

He is author, co-author or editor of six books, more than 80 book chapters and academic papers, and over 90 other publications. His first book (co-authored with 3 colleagues) was voted one of the top ten most influential books in Australian sociology by The Australian Sociological Association in 2003. That same year, he was elected to the International Academy of Sex Research, and in 2005, he was awarded a prestigious five-year VicHealth Senior Research Fellowship researching masculinity, sexuality and health. In 2008, he was admitted as a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Gordon Gregory
Gordon Gregory has been Executive Director of the National Rural Health Alliance (NRHA) since its establishment in 1993.  The NRHA is the peak non-government body working to improve the health of people throughout rural and remote Australia, organiser of the biennial National Rural Health Conference, and owner-manager of the Australian Journal of Rural Health.

Before 1993 Gordon worked at the Rural Development Centre at the University of New England, and then for nearly eight years in Canberra on the personal staff of a Federal Minister as an adviser on rural affairs, horticulture and fisheries.  He is a lapsed economist who has had a long-standing interest in policies and services for rural, regional and remote communities in Australia.

Bill McHugh
Bill is a 10 year survivor of Prostate Cancer. He is extensively experienced in prostate cancer support group activities within the Brisbane PCa Support Group, the Queensland Chapter Council with State responsibilities and at National levels tending to support group needs for leadership, information and logistic support.  He is the immediate past Chair of the Support and Advocacy Committee of the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia with concurrent responsibility for liaison with the Consumer Health Forum of Australia. 
Bill has studied support group operations and culture in California USA 2008/9 and has introduced a selection of worthwhile practices to the Australian network of support groups.  Formal training for consumer representation roles is now available for support group members.
Bill is a current Board Member of the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Queensland (appointed 2009) with responsibilities for representation of consumer perspectives on that Board and within its operational activities. 

Robert McLachlan
Professor Rob McLachlan (MBBS, FRACP, PhD) is a Principal Research Fellow of the NH&MRC at Prince Henry’s Institute and is Deputy Director of Endocrinology at the Monash Medical Centre aswell as Director of Andrology Australia. He specialises in the area of male reproductive medicine and has made significant contributions to research in endocrinology, infertility and andrology. He combines his academic career with active clinical practice as a consultant in these fields.

Rob is also Secretary of the International Society of Andrology and a consultant to the World Health Organisation (WHO) on male infertility regulation.

Pino Migliorino
Pino Migliorino is the new Chairperson of the Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia.

Professionally Pino leads Cultural Perspectives and CIRCA Research and is a recognised expert in researching and communicating with diverse cultural and linguistic audiences. This role involved managing over 80 large government and private sector advertising and communications campaigns as well as numerous multilingual research projects, and policy specific consultancies.

Pino retains a strong health and ageing focus in his professional practice and was engaged to develop a framework for cultural competency in health communications for the National Health and Medical Research Council. This consultancy is typical of many other consultancy projects undertaken requiring a strong intellectual capacity, an empathy with people from diverse backgrounds and a capacity to work with and through community structures and stakeholders.

Prior to entering the private sector Pino held a number of important sectoral positions including Principal Policy Officer, NSW Ethnic Affairs Commission, NSW Regional Co-ordinator, Office of Multicultural Affairs, and Executive Officer, Ethnic Communities Council of NSW.

Pino has been widely published in the multicultural area, has a BA from the University of Sydney, a Diploma of Education from the Sydney Institute of Education, is a Qualified Practicing Market Researcher (QPMR), and is a member of the Public Relations Institute of Australia.

Sally Redman
Professor Redman is CEO of the Sax Institute. The Sax Institute is funded by
NSW Health to increase the impact of public health and health services research on policy and practice.  It is responsible for the 45 and Up Study, Australia’s largest study on health and ageing, and has developed innovative approaches to increasing the use of evidence by policy agencies.

Professor Redman was previously the inaugural Director of the National Breast Cancer Centre, funded by Australia’s federal government to improve evidence-based care & outcomes for women with breast cancer. 
She received the Centenary Medal, for service to the health and welfare of Australian women diagnosed with breast cancer, 2003. Professor Redman is a public health researcher with an interest in evaluating programs designed to improve health and health care. She has over 150 publications in peer review journals.

Peter Strange
Peter Strange has worked as a Registered Nurse for the past 20 years working in rural communities.  Peter is presently employed by Bendigo Community Health Services in the division of Health Promotion as Nurse Practitioner (Men’s Health).

Peter currently works with men on a clinical basis firstly through the Men’s Health Clinic and secondly through a Mobile Men’s Clinic which engages men in the work place and in isolated rural communities. Health promotion and education form a major part of his work.

Gavin Turrell
Gavin Turrell is a Principal Research Fellow in the School of Public Health at Queensland University of Technology and is supported by a NHMRC Senior Research Fellowship. Previously he was appointed on an NHMRC/National Heart Foundation Career Development Award, and prior to this, he was an NHMRC Post Doctoral (Public Health) Research Fellow. His primary research interests are in social epidemiology, with a particular focus on the social determinants of health and health inequalities. His research is mainly population-based and examines how social and economic factors (measured at the individual, group, and area levels) influence health and health-related behaviours. His work is increasingly focusing on ways to reduce health inequalities through public policy, health policy, health promotion, and other intervention strategies.

Mark Wenitong
Dr Mark Wenitong is former President and a founding member of the Australian Indigenous Doctors Association and is also the Senior Medical Officer, Apunupima Cape York Health Council, Cairns, North Queensland.  He is a member of several national health committees and has key interests in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health policy, workforce, male health and chronic diseases.  He has also been actively involved with Andrology Australia as Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander male health reference group for the past eight years. 

Michael Wright

Michael is an Aboriginal man, from Western Australia. He is a Yuat Nyungar, his mother’s and grandmother’s booja (country) is located less than 100 kilometres north of Perth, in the area known as the Victoria Plains, which includes the townships of Mogumber and New Norcia. He has worked across the spectrum of health as a practitioner, policy officer and researcher. He has recently completed a PhD at the School of Public Health, Curtin University, and his research involved exploring the
experiences of care giving for Aboriginal people in the context of serious mental illness. His research interests include
mental health, men’s health, racism and Aboriginal history.