Joanna Tai is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University. Her research in assessment focuses on inclusion and diversity, feedback literacies, developing evaluative judgement, and student experiences across the university and workplace. She is currently undertaking funded projects on feedback literacy (Australian Research Council) and inclusive assessment (Australian Collaborative Education Network; Council of Australasian University Leaders in Learning and Teaching). Joanna is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Health Professions Education, and the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction. She has a background in medicine and health professions education.

Dr Sarira El-Den is a Senior Lecturer, Pharmacist and Master Mental Health First Aid Instructor at The University of Sydney School of Pharmacy. Sarira is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and has led and contributed to projects that have received $6.7 million AUD in funding, primarily focusing on mental health education, psychometric testing of measurement instruments and primary care services, and often involving collaboration and co-design with people with lived experience of mental illness. Sarira was the Education Representative of the Australasian Pharmaceutical Science Association from 2018-2023 and has since become Secretary of the organization. Sarira has won multiple awards at conferences and for her teaching, and has been recognized by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia as the NSW Early Career Pharmacist of Year (2022), and by the International Pharmaceutical Federation as a FIPWISE (Women in Science and Education) Rising Star (2022) and as a co-recipient of The Mental Health Services of Australia and New Zealand Award for Education, Training or Workforce Development (2023).

Dr Makhala Khammy started out as a cardiovascular pharmacologist, obtaining her PhD at the University of Melbourne. Her postdoctoral research investigated the complex and integrated mechanisms that regulate vascular tone and contribute to blood pressure elevation. Driven by an interest in teaching, she returned to the University of Melbourne to take on a Teaching and Research role in the Department of Pharmacology. As of 2021, she is a Teaching Focused Academic in the Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology. She is passionate about improving student engagement and the student learning experience and believes this can be aided in part by including experiential learning opportunities that encourage student agency within teaching programs, and fostering inclusive and collaborative learning environments that nurture a culture of inquiry and curiosity. A curiosity with emerging pedagogical approaches and technologies motivates her to explore, develop, and implement new strategies to enhance teaching and learning in pharmacology education.

Professor Anya Maan-Yuh Lin obtained her B.Sc. in Pharmacy and M.Sc. in Pharmacology at the National Taiwan University, Taiwan, ROC. She pursued her Ph.D. in Neuropharmacology at the University of Colorado, Health Science Center, U.S.A.. In 2016, she founded the Department of Pharmacy, a 6-year pharmacy program in National Yang Ming University (which was changed to National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in 2021). Currently, she is the Dean/ Professor of the College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan starting from August 1, 2022. Professor Lin has completed research projects from National Science and Technology Councils (NSTC) and published more than 80 SCI research papers in the international well-known journals (English). In addition, she has received education projects from Department of Education to promote pharmaceutical professions and STEM education. Professor Lin is the immediate past President of the Society of Taiwan Women in Science and Technology (TWiST). She organized WOMEN@NYCU to promote the network of the female faculties/scientists in the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Furthermore, she advocated the work-life balance for women scientists in the public hearing of Legislative Yuan, Taiwan. Moreover, she was invited to share “STEM is our CHOICE” in INWES and APEC webinars (USA).