Dr. Danielle Martin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM), University of Toronto. DFCM is the largest academic department of family medicine in the world and home to the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care. Dr. Martin is an active family physician and a respected leader in Canadian medicine. In 2006, her first year in practice, she helped launch Canadian Doctors for Medicare, the voice for Canadian physicians who believe in “a high quality, equitable, sustainable health system built on the best available evidence as the highest expression of Canadians caring for one another”. Danielle’s policy, clinical and academic expertise, combined with her commitment to health equity, have made her a highly regarded health system leader. She holds a Masters of Public Policy from the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto and teaches health policy and health system leadership to trainees from undergraduate to PhD level. In 2018 she led a team to produce the paper ‘Canada’s universal health-care system: achieving its potential’, a core paper for a special issue of The Lancet on Canada’s health systems. In March 2014, Dr. Martin’s presentation to a United States Senate Subcommittee about the Canadian health care system brought her international acclaim and has been viewed by over 30 million people across the globe. Her national bestselling book ‘Better Now: 6 Big Ideas to Improve the Health of all Canadians’, was released in 2017 and is used by students and lay people across Canada who want to learn more about Canada’s health system. Dr. Martin spent eight years as a senior hospital executive, most recently as Executive Vice President and Lead Medical Executive at Women’s College Hospital (WCH), where she was also medical lead of the hospital’s COVID-19 pandemic response. At WCH, she also led the establishment of Women’s Virtual, Canada’s first virtual hospital. The recipient of many awards and accolades, in 2019 Dr. Martin became the youngest physician ever to receive the F.N.G. Starr Award, the highest honour available to Canadian Medical Association members.

Assoc Prof Low Lian Leng is currently Director, SingHealth Centre for Population Health Research and Implementation, Medical Director at Outram Community Hospital, and Director, Population Health and Integrated Care Office, Singapore General Hospital. A/Prof Low is a Senior Consultant family physician and has research interests in social and behavioural determinants of health and artificial intelligence, especially in chronic disease management. He has also published widely on implementation and evaluation of integrated care models. He was awarded the HPHSR Clinician Scientist Award by the National Medical Research Council in 2022 and has received more than $7M in competitive research funding as PI or Co-PI.

Professor Enrico Coiera is Foundation Professor in Medical Informatics, Macquarie University. Trained in medicine with a computer science phD in Artificial Intelligence (AI), he has a research background in industry and academia, with a strong international research reputation. Professor Coiera spent 10 years at the prestigious Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories, Bristol, UK where he led numerous health technology projects and oversaw the development and trial of multiple e-Health interventions. Professor Coiera is Lead Investigator on the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Digital Health and holds a NHMRC Leadership Investigator grant. In 2015, he was awarded the François Grémy Award by the International Medical Informatics Associations and he was named the Australian Field Leader in Medical Informatics in 2021. In 2017, he was of ~100 scientists worldwide elected as Foundation Member of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. Professor Coiera was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2018, and a Member of the International Academy of Quality and Safety in Healthcare in 2020. He founded and leads the Australian Alliance for AI in Healthcare. His textbook Guide to Health Informatics 3rd edition is widely used internationally. He has >350 publications, >23,000 citations in Google Scholar.

Dr Catherine Pendrey is a general practitioner, educator and epidemiology scholar who is interested in addressing the nexus between health, equity and environmental sustainability. She has over 15 years’ experience working to address the health impacts of climate change, spanning advocacy, research, education and policy. Catherine is the current Chair of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Climate and Environmental Medicine Specific Interest Group and a Director of the Climate and Health Alliance in Australia. She has previously served as a member of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific and is an active contributor to the WONCA Working Party on Planetary Health. Currently based in Melbourne, Catherine previously worked as a general practitioner in Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations in Australia’s remote Northern Territory. She strongly believes that universal access to high quality primary care is essential to ensure a healthy and sustainable future.

Prof Gerald Koh is Head and Clinical Director of the Future Primary Care programme in MOH Office of Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) where his area of focus is primary care transformation using tele-health, novel diagnostic technologies and new models of care, including Healthier SG. He works with stakeholders from public polyclinics and private general practitioners to ensure that solutions which empower patients and providers to improve quality of care can be rapidly prototyped and tested. He is also Professor at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH) and Joint Professor, Dean’s Office and Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore; and Honorary Senior Consultant, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital. A family physician by training, he obtained his Masters in Medicine (Family Medicine) (NUS) in 2000, Fellowship in Family Medicine (College of Family Physicians Singapore) in 2003 and PhD in Family Medicine from Western University (Canada) in 2012. Prior to joining MOHT, he was Leader of the Health Systems and Behavioural Sciences Domain in SSHSPH and received the NUS Outstanding Educator Award in 2016. In 2021, he was recognised as among the Top 2% of Scientists Worldwide based on a study by Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford University. He is currently Principal Investigator of the NUHS Research Centre Grant’s Telehealth Core. His current research interests include tele-health, primary care, post-stroke rehabilitation, community geriatrics, health services research and medical education through service.

Professor Jane Gunn AO is a distinguished academic general practitioner, inaugural Chair of Primary Care Research and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at The University of Melbourne. Her leadership has raised the profile and rigour of primary care research in Australia. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. Professor Gunn focusses on bridging the research-practice gap and she has played a key role in transforming healthcare, starting with her work in shared maternity care (1992-2003), and cervical screening (1999-2006). She has led award-winning programs spanning medical and nursing student training. Since 2003 she has the led the Diagnosis, Management and Outcomes of Depression in Primary Care (diamond) longitudinal study to develop models of care to transform primary mental health care, focusing on depression and multimorbidity. She has been awarded over $74m in research funding and published more than 260 scholarly works. Jane has current and past service as a Director on primary care, hospital and medical research institute boards. She has served two terms on the NHMRC Research Committee and is current member of NHMRC Council. Professor Gunn’s diamond research program has twice been included in the NHMRC Ten of the Best collection, most recently in 2020. In 2020 Jane was instrumental in guiding the University of Melbourne through the COVID-19 pandemic as the Chief Public Health Adviser on the University’s governance team for the pandemic response. Qualifications: MBBS, University of Melbourne (1987); Diploma in Obstetrics, Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists (1991), Fellow Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (1994); PhD, University of Melbourne (1998); Fellow, Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences (2016).