Neville Board is Victoria’s Chief Digital Health Officer and heads the Digital Health Branch. The Branch conducts health sector planning and assurance. The Team is implementing unique patient identification across Victorian health services, and connecting health services to the My Health Record system. The Branch is implementing the digital elements of the Mental Health and Pathology Reforms programs in Victoria, and operates Victoria’s health service cyber security and ICT operational assurance programs. He chairs the Australian Digital Health Agency Jurisdictional Advisory Committee. Prior to coming to Victoria in 2018, Mr Board headed the eHealth and Medication Safety program at the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. He also convened the WHO clinical practice working group for the Global Patient Safety Challenge Medication without Harm. Mr Board is a registered nurse and has worked in clinical, management, and informatics roles. He has published on hospital in the home, use of data in health care, short stay surgery and post-acute care.

Kevin is a digital health futurist, healthcare innovator and an inter-disciplinary cyberpharmacist researcher. His work includes e-databases/data mining, telehealth/mHealth, artificial intelligence-based prediction of side-effects, virtual reality, serious games, 3D-printing, and quality evaluations of healthcare innovations. He has over 100 publications. His work has attained various international awards and media features.

Michael Liem, PhD, is a lecturer at the Department of Public Health, La Trobe University. He also has a BSc in Biology and MSc in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. His PhD was focused on the applications of exosomes in cancer progression and resulted in 9 publications. His research experiences have been in the domains of cancer OMICs, rapid monitoring of disease progression and drug response, and targeted therapies through lipid nanoparticles. He has taught both undergraduates and postgraduates. His interests are in the application of genomics, bioinformatics, nanoparticles, regenerative and precision medicine in enhancing health-related outcomes

Scott McGrath, PhD, FAMIA is a project manager for ACTIVATE at CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) Health, located within the University of California Berkeley. His research focuses best practices for technology integration and testing, workflow documentation, implementation planning, and data analysis of results from the program. Dr. McGrath is also the current chair of the AMIA Working Group Steering committee and an Ex-Officio AMIA board member.

Dr Katherine Kim is a health informatics researcher specializing in digital health, participatory methods, and community engagement. She is Co-Director of ACTIVATE, a community-co-designed platform for equitable and sustainable digital health implemented in underserved and rural communities, and Chair of the American Medical Informatics Association Consumer Health Informatics Working Group.

Olivia Metcalf, PhD is a senior research fellow and behavioural scientist at the University of Melbourne, and an emerging international expert in novel interventions for the treatment of posttraumatic mental health conditions. Her program of research focuses on digital health, including leveraging smartphone, wearable, sensor, and other digital technology to better assess and treat physical and mental health conditions in vulnerable populations.