Professor Vlado Perkovic

Incoming Dean, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney

Vlado Perkovic has recently stepped down from the Executive Director role at The George Institute, Australia to take up the role of Dean with the Faculty of Medicine at UNSW Sydney from October 2019. He is Staff Specialist in Nephrology at the Royal North Shore Hospital. Vlado’s research focus is in clinical trials and epidemiology, in particular in preventing the progression of kidney disease and its complications. He leads several international clinical trials, and has been involved in developing Australian and global treatment guidelines. He has played a central role in the development of an affordable dialysis system, which was a Eureka Prize finalist in 2017. Vlado is the President of the Association of Australian Medical Research Institute and is on the Board of the Australian Clinical Trials Alliance. He is Chair of the International Society of Nephrology Advancing Clinical Trials (ISN-ACT) group; and is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, and the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. He serves on the Editorial Boards of a number of leading specialist and general journals, including the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, Circulation, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Professor Emily Banks

Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, ANU College of Health and Medicine

Professor Emily Banks is an epidemiologist and public health physician. Her research uses large-scale population data to identify potentially modifiable factors affecting individual and population health in different settings, to inform improvements in health and health care.  She is recognised nationally and internationally for her work on cancer, cardiovascular disease, smoking, medication safety and Aboriginal health. She currently leads the Epidemiology for Policy and Practice Group at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences and a Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford.

Professor Evelyne de Leeuw

Professor of Public Health, Director of the Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation

Evelyne is, since 2015, Professor of Public Health and Director of the Centre for Health Equity Training, Research and Evaluation (CHETRE). CHETRE is part of the University of New South Wales, South Western Sydney Local Health District (the healthcare and health promotion provider to the most diverse and most health challenged population in the Greater Sydney basin), and Ingham Institute (a charitative health research institute connecting industry, community and the profession). With CHETRE’s mission ‘to co-create intelligence for better health’ Evelyne believes she has landed her best job ever, working with people, problems, and politics for health equity. CHETRE’s stakeholders recognise ‘the best job’, too – Evelyne was appointed Director of the Healthy Urban Environments (HUE) Collaboratory, a research, development and advocacy centre across three universities (UNSW, WSU, UTS), two health districts, local governments and developers. Evelyne has several parallel jobs. She is Editor-in-Chief of the peer reviewed journal Health Promotion International (IF 2), sits on the Executive Board of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education IUHPE, advises WHO, and is the chair of the Global Scientific Committee for IUHPE2022. Much of this is driven by Evelyne’s commitment to worldwide Healthy Cities – she has been involved with the European movement since its start (1986) and did evaluations and consultations with many local governments – including in Japan, El Salvador, Korea, Kazakhstan, and The Netherlands. Work with local health policy has driven her to argue for a ‘new’ scientific discipline – health political science, bridging public health, health promotion, policy studies, administrative, and political science. Finally some metrics. More than 200 peer reviewed articles and eight books. H-index 27. 50 online lectures and videos at Vimeo.