Associate Professor Michelle Jongenelis has expertise in health promotion, intervention development and evaluation, behavioural psychology, and clinical psychology. She works across multiple and diverse health-related behaviours including alcohol and tobacco control. Michelle works as a researcher and consultant for a broad range of organisations covering the not-for-profit and government sectors. She sits on the Australian Council of Smoking and Health, and the World Federation of Public Health Associations’ Tobacco Control Working Group. Michelle is also co-convener of the Public Health Association of Australia’s Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs SIG. In 2024, Michelle was awarded TSANZ’s President’s Award. This award was given in recognition of Michelle’s work in tobacco and e-cigarette control that has advanced our understanding of the drivers of e-cigarette uptake.

Peter Gibson is a respiratory physician, clinical researcher and lead of the severe asthma service at John Hunter Hospital. Peter and his team at Hunter Medical Research Institute have been instrumental in developing the Treatable Traits model of care for airways diseases; Peter is a Chief Investigator for the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Centre of Excellence in Asthma Treatable Traits and leads the Australasian severe asthma registry. Professor Gibson’s internationally recognised innovative research includes inflammatory subtypes of asthma and cough; airway biomarkers; neurogenic mechanisms and laryngeal dysfunction in chronic cough; and multidimensional assessment and management of complex airway disorders. He has been awarded several research honours, including the 2018 ERS Gold Medal in Asthma.