Professor Daryl Higgins is the Director of the Institute of Child Protection Studies at Australian Catholic University. For 30 years, he has been researching child abuse prevalence, impacts, and prevention; public health approaches to protecting children; child-safe organisational strategies; and approaches to promoting child and family welfare. He was a Chief Investigator on the Australian Child Maltreatment Study, which was the first national study of the prevalence in Australia of child abuse and neglect, and its health outcomes. It demonstrated not only the high prevalence of child maltreatment in Australia, but how it increases risk of a range of mental health and health-risk behaviours across life.

Dr. Zac Seidler is a Clinical Psychologist, the Global Director of Men's Health Research at Movember and a Senior Research Fellow with Orygen at The University of Melbourne. Zac leads a large international team of highly productive of Postdoctoral Fellows, PhD Candidates, Masters & Honours Students, Project Managers & Research Assistants. Zac has devoted several years to the goal of reducing the staggering male suicide and domestic violence rates, treating and researching men’s mental health, with over 100 peer-reviewed articles published.

Emily Unity is an award-winning mental health advocate, software engineer, and creative designer. They are passionate about creating change through disrupting traditional systems and amplifying intersectional voices. Emily is informed by their intersectional lived and living experiences. This includes mental ill-health, disability, LGBTQIA+, multiculturalism, neurodivergence, homelessness, family violence, and more. For their work, Emily was recently awarded 25 Under 25, 30 Under 30, Mental Health Advocate of the Year, Youth of the Year, the Disability Leadership Award, Innovation in Protecting Children Award, Children and Youth Empowerment Award, and inducted in the inaugural cohort of the Multicultural Honor Roll.