SPEAKERS

Jeff Angel Director, Total Environment Centre, Sydney
	Jeff Angel is Director of the Total Environment Centre, based in Sydney. The Total Environment Centre has undertaken a number of successful campaigns towards sustainable cities, including on air pollution, public transport, water conservation and recycling and sustainability targets. Jeff was Chair of Green Games Watch 2000, which provided community input to the green Olympics and he is a member of the Urban Sustainability Council that initially developed the BASIX law. BASIX is a NSW Government initiative that ensures new homes are designed and built to use less potable water and produce fewer greenhouse gas emissions.
Colin Berryman, Program Coordinator, Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils Ltd (WSROC)
	Colin Berryman has worked with NGOs and local government for the past 18 years. He is currently with the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils as Program Coordinator: Health, Housing and the Built Environment. This position supports WSROC Member Councils in advocacy and developing policy and procedures. WSROC recognises the need for greater integration of local government work across the areas of health, housing and the built environment. Colin’s expertise is in communication, partnership development, research and policy analysis, focusing on social issues most relevant to local government.
Tony Capon, Medical Officer for Health, Sydney West Area Health Service
	Tony Capon is Medical Officer for Health with the Sydney West Area Health Service. He completed his medical studies at the University of Queensland in 1983. He subsequently undertook doctoral research in molecular parasitology at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research. An NHMRC Australian Applied Health Sciences Fellowship followed, to do post-doctoral research in communicable disease control at the Menzies School of Health Research in Darwin. Since 1991 Tony has been working as a specialist public health physician in western Sydney. He has particular interests in the development of cities and human health outcomes.
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Simon Corbell, Minister for Health, Minister for Planning, ACT Legislative Assembly
	Simon Corbell MLA has been a Labor member of the ACT Legislative Assembly since 1997 and a minister since 2001. Simon’s activities in health, public transport and planning policy have been extensive. He has been successful in gaining new investment for ACTION’s green bus fleet, “One Fare Anywhere” and “Xpresso” services. As Minister for Planning he has overseen the establishment of the ACT Planning and Land Authority and the Land Development Agency and the appointment of a Chief Planner for the ACT. The establishment of key policy frameworks to guide the future growth of Canberra through the Canberra Spatial Plan and Sustainable Transport Plan are some of his key achievements. Simon is leading the development of a reform package for the ACT’s development assessment and planning process that will result in a simpler, faster and more effective system. This is the most significant reform of the ACT’s planning system since self-government.
Paul Cozens Principal Policy Officer, Designing Out Crime Unit, Office of Crime Prevention, Perth
	Paul Cozens is a Designing Out Crime researcher, practitioner and policy advisor. He has a First Class BA (Hons) Degree in “Sustainable Environments” and a PhD in “Crime and Design” (both at the University of Glamorgan, UK). He has conducted Designing Out Crime projects in residential, retail, commercial, leisure and public transport settings and has published extensively on the subjects of designing out crime, lighting, CCTV and creating sustainable urban communities. Paul is an internationally–accredited Advanced Certified Designing Out Crime Practitioner and member of the International Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design Association.
Jane Dixon Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health (NCEPH), ANU
	Jane Dixon is a public health social scientist at NCEPH. She has made scholarly contributions to three fields: professional community practice, health equity and food systems. Between 1998-2001, Jane coordinated the Health Inequalities Research Collaboration, where she co-edited The Social Origins of Health and Well-being (CUP 2001). Her more recent co-edited book Community Practices in Australia (Pearson 2003) uses case studies to focus on the changing relationships and emergent partnerships between civil society, the market and the state. Jane’s current research focuses on the socio-cultural trends underlying the rise in obesity and this is the subject of another two co-edited books The Seven Deadly Sins of Obesity (in preparation) and The Weight of Modernity (under research). Throughout her career, she has sought to build bridges between the academy, civil society and government. Jane currently sits on the ACT Government’s Healthy Weight Coordination Committee and she is a Director of Australia 21, a research organisation concerned with Australia’s future.
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Ruth Durack Director, Urban Design Centre of Western Australia
	Ruth Durack is Director of the Urban Design Centre of Western Australia, a collaboration of The University of Western Australia, Curtin University and State government, that focuses academic and professional resources on the design of urban places in WA. Ruth is a graduate of the Architecture school at UWA, holds Masters degrees in architecture, planning and urban design from the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania, and is a Loeb Fellow of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. She practiced as an urban design consultant for many years with the international firm of Wallace Roberts & Todd, based in Philadelphia and San Francisco, and has taught studios and seminars in urban design at Temple, Drexel, Kent State and the University of Pennsylvania. Before returning to Perth in 2004, Ruth was the Director of the Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio, an organisation with a similar mission to the new Urban Design Centre in WA.
Rob Dyball Lecturer, Human Ecology Program, School of Resources, Environment and Society, ANU
	Robert Dyball obtained his PhD from the Australian National University (ANU). His thesis involved the application of dynamic systems thinking to the conceptual structure of Human Ecology in order to create a powerful means of understanding the characteristic changes in human-ecological situations. Robert lectures in the Human Ecology Program at the ANU, with courses in Human Ecology, Urban Ecology, Sustainable Systems and Ecology and Social Change. Robert’s current research is on furthering the application of dynamic systems thinking in Human Ecology and in understanding socio-biophysical interactions more generally.
Barney Foran Visiting Fellow, Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, ANU
	Barney Foran is currently a visiting fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the ANU. During the last decade he developed and led a CSIRO futures group which ran the numbers on Australia’s long term resource, environmental and technology options out to 2100. The group has now completed major studies on Australia’s human population (Future Dilemmas), marine fisheries (Fish Futures to 2050), land and water (Decision Points) and biomass energy (Beyond 2025). His most recent whole economy work is the study Balancing Act: A Triple Bottom Line Analysis of the Australian Economy, released in May 2005 in collaboration with the University of Sydney. Barney has now given up his day job to concentrate on a synthesis of his last decade of Australian futures work, with an emphasis on solutions for the linked issues of oil depletion, greenhouse emissions and economic productivity.
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Lawrence Frank Bombadier Chairholder in Sustainable Transportation, University of British Columbia
	Lawrence Frank specialises in the interaction between land use, travel behavior, air quality, and health, and in the synergy between public and active forms of transport. He has co-authored numerous papers and two books in the past two years on these topics: Health and Community Design, The Impacts of The Built Environment on Physical Activity and Urban Sprawl and Public Health. In June of 2004, his study Obesity Relationships with Community Design, Physical Activity, and Time Spent in Cars was released documenting for the first time relationships between travel habits, neighborhood design characteristics, and the odds of being obese. In 2005 he led another study documenting that residents of the most walkable areas of the Atlanta region are 2.4 times more likely to get recommended levels of physical activity than residents of the most sprawling areas of that region. Lawrence has been a pioneer in exploring how the physical environment impacts our quality of life and is a “pracademic” who believes in the importance of translating research into action; and works closely with local government officials and developers who make transportation investments and land use decisions.
Steve Garlick Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast & Adj. Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
	Steve Garlick has more than 20 years experience in the field of regional development. He was a senior executive in the Commonwealth Government for around 12 years and was one of the architects of the former Government’s regional development policy and strategy released in the Working Nation white paper. Steve has been a professor at Southern Cross University and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies in the UK. He is currently a Professor of Regional Engagement at the University of Sunshine Coast and an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne. His research interests are in the fields of regional and community development, higher education, and institutional performance assessment. He is currently working with the OECD on an international project evaluating the contribution of higher education to regional development. In his spare time Steve is the president of a large native animal caring organisation in NSW and on his property near Canberra cares for injured and orphaned wildlife.
Billie Giles–Corti Professor of Population Health & NHMRC/NHF Career Development Award Fellow, UWA
	Billie Giles–Corti is a leader in health promotion research and practice nationally and recognised internationally for her research on the impact of the built environment on health. Since the mid-90s, she has led a multi–disciplinary team of researchers at The University of Western Australia, examining the role of physical activity and the environment. She is also co-investigator on research in Melbourne and Brisbane examining the impact of the environment on children and its effects on people living in lower socio–economic areas. She is a member of the WA Premier’s Physical Activity Taskforce, a Board member of the Heart Foundation’s WA Division and Chair of its Cardiovascular Health Committee. In 1998 and 2003, she was the principal author of a review of priorities for the Western Australian Health Promotion Foundation (Healthway). Nationally, she is a Member of the National Heart Foundation’s Fellowships and Scholarships committee and its National Physical Activity Committee. In 1999, she was a co–author of Australia’s National Guidelines on Physical Activity and in 2004, was a co–author of a review of evidence of the impact of the built environment on physical activity.
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Brendan Gleeson Professor of Urban Policy & Management, Griffith University & Advisor, OECD Urban Research Program
	Brendan Gleeson joined Griffith University in 2003, having previously been Deputy Director of the Urban Frontiers Program, University of Western Sydney. His research interests include urban planning and governance, urban social policy, disability studies, and environmental theory and policy. He is co-author (with Nicholas Low) of Justice, Society and Nature: an Exploration of Political Ecology (1998) which received the prestigious Harold and Margaret Sprout award in 1999 from the International Studies Association. He has also co-edited three books with Nicholas Low on aspects of urban and environmental policy. Professor Gleeson’s urban social policy interests were reflected in his 1999 book, Geographies of Disability. His next book, Australian Heartlands: Making Space for Hope in the Suburbs, will be published shortly by Allen & Unwin. Professor Gleeson has worked professionally in a range of countries, including Britain, Germany, New Zealand, the USA and Australia. In early 2002, Gleeson was appointed by the ACT government to act as a key adviser on a major restructuring of the territory’s planning and land development administration. He is currently a member of the ACT Planning and Land Council.
Renata Howe Faculty of Arts, Deakin University
	Renate Howe is a sessional member of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Planning and Environment Division and of Planning Panels Victoria. She is also a member of the Victorian Heritage Council and of the Victorian Environment and Planning Law Association. Her academic research and publications have focused on linking research and public policy especially in relation to the strategic planning of cities. She is a board member of the Institute of Public History at Monash University and a research associate at the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University. Recently, Renate has been Chief Investigater for an ARC-funded project studying the influence of urban activists on the development of Melbourne in the 1960s and 1970s and has contributed to a history of working mothers in Australia, Double Shift, to be published by Circa press in October.
Allen Kearns Deputy Chief, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
	Allen Kearns is Deputy Chief of CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, based in Canberra, where he has been working since 1995. He is an environmental scientist with strong interests in urban and industrial ecology. His current science and business interests are in developing practical applications of ecological knowledge that improve the prospects for sustainability in natural, agricultural, urban, coastal and industrial ecosystems. Prior to joining CSIRO, Allen worked for 13 years as an environmental scientist with the international consulting company, Dames & Moore. He ran consulting practices for the company in Australia, California and France working on a wide range of natural resource management and infrastructure development projects, particularly for the mining, oil and gas industries. Before joining Dames & Moore, Allen worked on groundwater contamination research at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley and on marine pollution research at the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville. He is a Chartered Chemist and originally educated in Agricultural Science at the University of Sydney.
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Stephanie Knox Planning for Health and Wellbeing Project, Planning Institute of Australia (Vic Division)
	Stephanie Knox is an urban, regional and social planner. She currently manages the Planning for Health and Wellbeing Project Office for the Planning Institute of Australia (Victoria). This project is a partnership between the PIA and the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation – a part time appointment, to promote greater awareness of health matters to the planning profession. She is also planning consultant to the National Heart Foundation (Victorian Division) on the Supportive Environments for Physical Activity Project (SEPA) Review. In 2004 she developed and taught a new unit in the postgraduate program at RMIT University, “Integrating Health and Planning” and has also taught at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University. Stephanie has extensive experience in a wide range of planning specialties, particularly planning for health and wellbeing, social planning, community safety, community consultation, strategic planning and project management. She has worked at all levels of government and in private consultancy, in Australia and overseas.
Pieta Laut Executive Director, Secretariat, Public Health Association of Australia
	Pieta Laut has worked at or with all levels of government in a variety of fields including urban and regional planning, environmental assessment and public health. While with the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Pieta was involved in the development of the Public Health Outcome Funding Agreements and the setting up of the National Public Health Partnership. After 23 years of working in governmental instrumentalities, Pieta left the Commonwealth to become the Executive Director of the Public Health Association of Australia, where she actively participates in policy development and advocacy as well as the administration of the Association.
Geoff Lawler Director, Sustainability & Innovation, City of Melbourne
	Geoff Lawler is one of six Directors reporting to the Chief Executive of the City of Melbourne. He is a member of the City of Melbourne’s Corporate Management Team and is responsible for the performance of the Sustainability & Innovation Division. The Division’s purpose is to understand and influence the making of Melbourne as a thriving and sustainable city. This includes: research and monitoring of city performance and futures; strategic city planning; fostering innovative and sustainable business growth and trade; developing local responses to critical global, national and regional environmental issues affecting the city; and shaping and managing Council's regulations governing urban development, construction and public health. Geoff is a member of the Victorian Sustainability Advisory Council. Geoff joined the City of Melbourne in 1996 after 17 years working for the Victorian Public Service in a variety of heritage and urban planning roles.
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Ian Lowe Emeritus Professor, School of Science, Griffith University
	Ian Lowe AO is an emeritus professor at Brisbane’s Griffith University and President of the Australian Conservation Foundation. He directed the Commission for the Future in 1988 and chaired the advisory council that produced the first report on the state of the Australian environment in 1996. In 2000 Ian received the Queensland Premier’s Millennium Award for Excellence in Science and the Australian Prime Minster’s Environmental Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement. He wrote a weekly column for New Scientist for 13 years and received the 2002 Eureka Prize for promotion of science and technology.
Phil McManus Senior Lecturer, School of Geosciences, University of Sydney
	Phil McManus is a senior lecturer in the School of Geosciences at The University of Sydney. He has academic qualifications in urban and regional planning, environmental studies and geography. Phil’s research interests include sustainable cities, industrial ecology and eco-industrial parks, the geography of animals and media representations of environmental issues. He is the co-editor of two books and the author of Vortex Cities to Sustainable Cities: Australia’s Urban Challenge (UNSW Press, 2005).
Tony McMichael Professor and Director, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health (NCEPH), ANU
	Tony McMichael has over 30 years of experience in epidemiological research, with a particular emphasis on studying environmental influences on disease risk. He played a pioneering role in the development of the concepts and methods relevant to studying the health impacts (esp. infectious disease risks) of global climate and other environmental changes. This has included: authoring/editing a methods textbook (Cambridge Univ Press) and one review volume (WHO and UN agencies); chairing the assessment of health impacts for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); and playing a similar role in the international Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) Project. His most recent book is Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures, Cambridge University Press (2001). He is co-directing a national multi-centre study of the roles of solar ultraviolet radiation and early-life viral infections in the causation of multiple sclerosis. He is also participating in an international project on The Future of Nutrition Science, seeking a convergence of population health criteria (for disease prevention) and ecologically sustainable methods of food production.
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Susan P. Mercado Programme Coordinator, Cities and Health program, WHO Centre for Health Development, (WKC) Kobe, Japan
	Susan P. Mercado is a public health professional with international experience in programme management and policy development. She is currently Team Leader for Urbanization and Health Equity at the World Health Organization Centre for Health Development (WHO Kobe Centre – WKC). She served as Acting Regional Adviser for Health Promotion of WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific in Manila 2001–2004 and was in charge of technical assistance and programme support for health promotion, Healthy Cities, health-promoting schools, tourism and health and ageing and health with Ministries of Health in 36 countries. Dr Mercado’s current task in WKC is to manage the Centre’s core project on urbanization and health equity that seeks to develop public health methodologies for reducing health inequity in urban settings through health governance. Dr Mercado served in the Philippine Government for several years and was Undersecretary (Deputy Minister) of the Department of Health from 1998 to 2001. Dr Mercado is a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) and holds a Master of Public Health degree (MPH) from the University of the Philippines.
Glenn Mitchell Lecturer, History Program, Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong
	Glenn Mitchell is a senior lecturer in the School of History & Politics at the University of Wollongong. He is the convenor of the History Program. After completing his doctoral thesis, Company, community and governmental attitudes and their consequences to pollution at Port Kembla, with special reference to the Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Company, 1900-1970, he worked as a senior policy adviser on migrant health for the NSW Health Department. He has been a consultant to the NSW Departments of Local Government and Youth and Community Services as well as the Office of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He is currently one of a team of historians writing the Official Sesqicentenary History of the NSW Parliament. He has won the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to Teaching and Learning on two occasions. His research interests include environmental history and the history of public health.
Wendy Morris Director, Urban Design and Planning, Ecologically Sustainable Design P/L
	Wendy Morris is a Director of Ecologically Sustainable Design (ESD), an urban design and planning consultancy specialising in New Urbanism, sustainable growth management and mixed use development. ESD is also known for its enquiry–by–design participatory processes, which actively involve communities in their future. Based in Melbourne, ESD practises across Australia and internationally. New Urbanism produces walkable, mixed use, public transport–friendly urban environments that are highly supportive of physical and mental health. Wendy works on both urban revitalisation and greenfields urban extension projects and strategies. For many years she has promoted the integral link between urban design and the potential for active living and social wellbeing. Wendy has an extensive knowledge of New Urbanist projects across Australia, New Zealand, North America and the UK. Prior to joining ESD she worked in the Victorian Department of Planning.
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Barry Newell Visiting Fellow, Department of Engineering, ANU
	Barry Newell has a background in mathematics, astronomy and astrophysics, dynamical systems theory, and operations research. He began his career in astronomy and astrophysics in 1969 at Yale University where he studied the advanced phases of stellar evolution. His astronomical work in later years was carried out at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, and then at Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Australia. During the last 22 years Barry has gained extensive experience in mathematics education and in industrial process improvement and management. He is currently engaged in a study of the metaphorical nature of basic mathematical and dynamical concepts and their use in the construction of theory and practice in integrative research, systems thinking, and education. His principal aim in this work is to establish ways to build improved understandings of the dynamics of human activity systems and of the roles of designers, managers, and players in such systems.
Peter Newman Director, Institute for Sustainability & Technology Policy, Murdoch University
	Peter Newman is the Professor of City Policy and Director of the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Policy, at Murdoch University. He is Chair of the Western Australian Sustainability Roundtable advising the Premier on how to implement their Sustainability Strategy. Peter’s book with Jeff Kenworthy Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence was launched in the White House in 1999 and his 2001 co-authored book is called Back on Track: Rethinking Australian and New Zealand Transport. In 2004 he was made a Sustainability Commissioner in NSW.
Paul O’Brien Project Director & Deputy General Manager, Delfin Lend Lease, NSW
	Paul O’Brien has a background in town planning and urban design, with his studies carried out in Adelaide, Brisbane and Melbourne. He has 14 years experience in the ‘communities business’ working on over ten major projects across six cities in Australia. The most recent community is Nelson’s Ridge in Sydney’s West. This 1600 dwelling community set up over the past three years, encompasses many dimensions of healthy communities within its design. The next dimension to this is the work currently being carried out on the Bonnyrigg Public Housing PPP bid. This sees the healthy communities’ dimension taken to another level altogether and truly challenges our thinking.
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Howard Pender Director, Australian Ethical Investment
	Howard Pender received a university medal in economics from the Australian National University. He worked at the Commonwealth Treasury and then as Senior Economist at Bankers Trust in Sydney. From 1992 to 1997 he was a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for International and Public Law at the Australian National University. During that time he wrote The Joy of Tax published by the Australian Tax Research Foundation which deals with long term tax design issues in Australia. Howard is currently an Executive Director of Australian Ethical Investment Ltd, Australia’s premier “green” funds management company. He has also been a Director of two other ASX listed companies.
Katrina Proust Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Resource & Environmental Studies, ANU
	Katrina Proust has degrees in Archaeology, Law and European Languages. She completed her PhD in resource management and environmental science at the ANU in 2004. Katrina has experience in legal practice in New South Wales, international science collaboration with the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board, heritage conservation and historic site preservation. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the ANU Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies. Her research addresses two interconnected issues that bear on attempts to improve the way in which we learn in and about complex systems. The first is the need for policy makers to understand the feedback dynamics of human-environment relationships. The second is the need for applied historians to engage with the policy-making community to develop an historical perspective that can reveal feedback behaviour. She is currently working on a dynamical study of Canberra’s water supply-and-demand system.
Beverly Raphael Professor of Population Mental Health & Disasters, University of Western Sydney
	Beverly Raphael is also Director, Centre for Scientific and Collaborative Investigation of Mental Health Adversities (SCIMHA), University of Western Sydney and Emeritus Professor in Psychiatry from the University of Queensland. She has been involved in the development of national mental health policy in Australia and is responsible for mental health policy and program development in New South Wales. As an internationally–recognised expert in the area of trauma, grief and disasters, and more recently, response to terrorism and its mental health correlates and consequences, she was involved in planning for the Sydney Olympics and the response to the Bali Bombing. She has led the development of prevention and public health approaches to mental health and the implications of these for disasters and terrorism and has responsibility for coordinating national mental health responses to these events in Australia. She is chair of the National Working Party for Mental Health Aspects for Terrorism and Disaster and is the current chair of the National Mental Health Disaster Taskforce which co-ordinated the National Mental Health response to the South East Asia Tsunami disaster. She is a consultant to WHO and other international groups.
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Sue Robinson Executive General Manager, NSW Urban Taskforce
	Sue Robinson is Executive General Manager of the NSW Urban Taskforce, a property development industry group founded in 1999. She is responsible for government relations and advocacy, media and public relations and a broad range of member services. Sue Robinson was appointed to the NSW Urban Taskforce in 2002 after working as a senior executive in local government in NSW. Sue has extensive urban planning and public policy experience in NSW and Victoria. Her qualifications include an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, a Master of Planning from UTS Sydney, plus a Bachelor of Arts (Geography) from the University of Melbourne.
Tom Snow Executive Director, Canberra International Airport
	Tom Snow is Executive Director of Canberra International Airport and is responsible for environmental and sustainability issues on the airport and in the early implementation of future development opportunities. Tom was the Green Star Accredited Professional responsible for Australia’s first Green Star rated building and regularly lectures on how to make commercial sense out of building green. After finishing his Rhodes Scholarship where he completed a Masters in Sustainable Development Economics at Oxford University, Tom worked at the United Nations in New York setting long–term sustainable economic development policy for both the United Nations and its agencies in implementing the UN’s Millennium Development Goals. Tom’s particular role at the United Nations was in analysing transport infrastructure — detailing where market failures had occurred, causing development to be either unsustainable, or causing development in itself to stall — and outlining potential policy solutions. Tom is also a commercial pilot.
Lyndall Strazdins Research Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health (NCEPH), ANU
	Lyndall Strazdins is a research fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, a consortium member of the 10 year Australian Longitudinal Study of Children (Growing Up in Australia- LSAC), and international consultant to the New Zealand Longitudinal Study of Children. Her research and publications have focused on contemporary work and family life, including; work at unsociable times and parent and child wellbeing; employed mothers, time pressure and musculoskeletal pain; job insecurity and adult mental health; and the impact of poor quality jobs (e.g., jobs involving very high demands, low autonomy, insecurity, unsociable hours, and few family friendly provisions) on parent wellbeing, family functioning and children. Lyndall has been responsible for developing the work, family and health component of the LSAC, the work and health module for the ANU’s Path Through Life cohort study (PATH), and the work and health module of the Wellcome Trust funded Thai Cohort Study at ANU, which will compare work, health and family issues in the Thai labour market and Australia.
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Boyd Swinburn Professor of Population Health, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University
	Boyd Swinburn is Professor of Population Health at the Centre for Physical Activity and Nutrition Research at Deakin University in Melbourne. He originally trained as an endocrinologist in Auckland before starting his research career in diabetes and nutrition metabolism with the National Institutes of Health in the US. Upon returning to New Zealand, he became more drawn into public health research, particularly in his role as Medical Director of the National Heart Foundation. Boyd’s major research interest is now centred on obesity prevention particularly in children and adolescents. He has developed and supported a number of community-based demonstration projects in the Barwon-South West region of Victoria and these are linked to similar projects in Auckland, Fiji and Tonga. Through his work with the World Health Organization and the International Obesity Task Force, he is also contributing to global efforts to promote obesity prevention at a global level. He also established Deakin University as a WHO Collaborating Centre for Obesity Prevention.
Lorrae van Kerkhoff Research Fellow, National Centre For Epidemiology & Population Health (NCEPH), ANU
	Lorrae van Kerkhoff has broad interests including the role of language in the development of new conceptual areas; informal learning as a part of professional research practice; and the interplay between large socio-political forces such as globalisation and the knowledge economy on research oriented to public management, particularly in relation to public health and sustainability. She spent 2005 with Harvard’s Center for International Development, supported by a Fulbright post-doctoral fellowship and a Land and Water Australia Travelling Fellowship. While there she investigated how funding mechanisms connect science and politics in the treatment and prevention of malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. Lorrae completed her doctorate in 2002 from The Australian National University where she examined the concept of integrated research, and how it is being understood and implemented by two Australian environment sector Cooperative Research Centres.

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