Associate Professor Cheryl Carcel is the Head of the Brain Health Program at The George Institute for Global Health. She also works part-time as a clinical neurologist. Cheryl is an NHMRC Emerging Leader Fellow, an Australian and New Zealand Stroke Organisation Emerging Stroke Clinician and Scientist and a World Heart Federation Emerging Leader in Stroke. Her research focuses on health equity, in particular working on sex and gender differences, women’s brain health and policies encouraging disaggregation of data by sex and gender.

Dr Inken Martin is head of the Snow Fellowship Program at the Snow Medical Research Foundation, which funds long-term high-risk transformational science across Australia. She is an experienced biomedical scientist with an MD/PhD from the University of Freiburg, Germany, and clinical and research training at Heidelberg University (Germany), the University of California at Berkeley (USA), and UNSW. Before joining Snow Medical she was a senior scientist at the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute in Sydney where she established a zebrafish cardiac genetics research program with focus on human dilated cardiomyopathy. In addition, she manages her husband’s specialist surgical practice and their three teenage daughters.