Professor Marion Eckert is the Foundation Director of the Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre (RBRC) and Professor of Health Innovation and Enterprise at the University of South Australia. With over 30 years of experience across clinical, executive, and academic roles, she has led RBRC since 2016. A non-traditional academic, she focuses on translational research, workforce wellbeing, and health innovation. Professor Eckert founded the Australasian Nursing and Midwifery Clinical Trials Network and the Outstanding Workforce Leaders (OWL) Research Program. Under her leadership, RBRC has become a nationally recognised centre of excellence, recently named the Commonwealth Centre for Digital Health and recipient of the HESTA Outstanding Organisation Award. She holds an adjunct professorship at Flinders University and is currently completing a Bachelor of Law (Honours). Her recognition includes the 2024 Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame and the prestigious Churchill Fellowship.

Associate Professor Jacqui Pich is the Deputy Head of School Teaching and Learning for the School of Nursing and Midwifery at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Jacqui has significant experience in the teaching and learning space and in curriculum development. She was awarded a national citation for outstanding contributions to student learning in 2022 and a UTS Teaching and Learning award in 2024. She also works closely with industry and was one of the chief investigators on a review on the training and education conducted in South Western Sydney Local Health District. Her body of research is focused on violence in nursing and she is considered an expert in her field. She continues to work closely with professional nursing organisations on this topic and is especially interested in the link between violence to nurses and the impact on patient safety.

Eileen is a Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, School of Nursing. She is an experienced critical care nurse and ICU research nurse. She is passionate about nursing care, how healthcare impacts upon the planet and preparing nurses to be able to work in a changing climate. She was a faculty facilitator for the first New Zealand Planetary Health Report Card and is working with the pre-registration education team to integrate planetary health into the pre-registration nursing curriculum.