Professor Raghu Lingam is a senior clinical academic with extensive expertise in maternal and child health services research. He holds the position of Professor in Paediatric Population and Health Services Research at the University of New South Wales and serves as an Honorary Professor at Kings College London and the Black Dog Institute (NSW). Additionally, he is a Consultant Paediatrician within the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network. Professor Lingam leads the Population Child Health and Health Services Research Group at UNSW Sydney, the NSW Centre for Child Health Services Research and Innovations (CHRIS), and its national counterpart, Child Unlimited. Raghu’s research focuses on developing and evaluating large-scale child health intervention programs across various settings to enhance the health and development of children and young people. With over 140 publications and more than $49.5 million in research funding secured in the last five years, his contributions to the field are widely recognised.

Seaneen Wallace is Gunggari and Bundjalung woman who lives on Dharawal country and is the project co-Ordinator for the PEACH project. A community dietitian by background, Seaneen completed the 3 year NSW Health Aboriginal Health Population Health traineeship through Sydney Children's Hospital Network where she gained her Master of Public Health and industry experience in a range of public health areas such as epidemiology, communicable disease management and health service design and evaluation. She is passionate about improving the health outcomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people through health equity research, utilising both Western and Indigenous methodologies.

Katarina Ostojic is an Adjunct Associate Lecturer with the Population Child Health Research Group, UNSW and Research Fellow at The University of Sydney. She is a mixed-methods researcher with experience collaborating with local health districts and University research groups. Katarina is passionate about improving mental health, psychosocial functioning, and participation for people with a lived experience of chronic illness, particularly those with a physical disability. Katarina has experience working with children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, especially young people with cerebral palsy. She is passionate about investigating novel interventions to improve health outcomes, and working together with consumers, clinicians, and researchers to embed this knowledge into routine clinical care.

Jack Calderan is a talented para-athletic rower, experienced volunteer, and early-career professional. Jack lives with cerebral palsy and has been involved with the EPIC-CP young adults’ advisory group since 2021. He brings his lived experience expertise to the EPIC-CP team to ensure the research creates meaningful change for people with cerebral palsy and addresses their priorities. Jack is passionate about leading research that makes positive difference to the lives of young people with CP including the health care system, employment, and recreation.

Alunya Wilkinson is a proud Aboriginal woman from the Mid Coast and has a 13-year-old daughter with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. Alunya has been involved with the EPIC-CP parent advisory group since 2021. She brings her lived experience expertise to the EPIC-CP team to ensure the research is relevant, practical, and meaningful to families of children with cerebral palsy. Alunya is passionate about working together with researchers to better support families navigating life with children with disabilities.

Gary L. Freed MD, MPH is the Murphy professor of Pediatrics and professor of Health Policy at the University of Michigan, and Director of Research for the Office for Health Equity and Inclusion. Dr. Freed has >30 years of experience in children's health services research. He founded the first pediatric health services research center in the US. He has been the principal investigator of numerous grants on child health policy and health economics, immunizations, healthcare quality measurement, health inequities, physician behavior and the medical workforce. He is past president of the Society for Pediatric Research, the largest research society in child health. From 2013-2016 he was visiting scholar at the Royal Children’s Hospital and Professor of Population Health at Melbourne University. In 2023 he founded the Program for Equity and Child Health and the Michigan Child Health Equity Collaborative, the first collaborative in the US focused on child health equity.