Month: February 2026

Professor Timothy Carey1 1CQUniversity Abstract: While the importance of control in areas such as the social determinants of health is widely acknowledged, the science explaining and describing control is less well known. The science of control provides a refreshing approach to understanding behaviour...

Prof. Jill Klein1 1Medical Education, Melbourne Medical School. Professor of Marketing at Melbourne Business School Abstract: While humans possess remarkable capabilities, we are also deeply fallible. Perfection is an illusion; biases that shape our judgments and the limits of our cognitive capacity...

Ms Alison Lemoh1, Professor Karin Thursky1, Professor Mei Krishnasamy1, Ms Jenny Motiani1 , Doctor Lisa  Guccione1 1Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre | National Centre for Infections in Cancer (PhD) University Of Melbourne Abstract: Background Sepsis causes one in five global deaths. In...

Mrs Laura Berry1 1TRUE Reproductive Health , Cairns, Australia Biography: Laura Berry is a Nurse Practitioner at TRUE Reproductive Health and Clinical Coordinator for the Torres and Cape Sexual & Reproductive Health Team. She has spent most of her career...

Ms Cherie Bennett1,2,3,4 1ASHM, Sydney, Australia, 2Sydney Sexual Health Centre , Sydney , Australia , 3The Kirby Institute – University of New South Wales , Kensignton , Australia , 4University of Wollongong , Wollongong , Australia Biography: Cherie Bennett is...

Mrs Haley Hodgson1 1Avenüplus, Maclean, Australia Biography: Haley Hodgson is a Registered Nurse, Nurse Practitioner Candidate, and healthcare executive based in rural New South Wales. She is the founder and Director of multiple integrated health services, including a nurse-led access...

Ms Philippa (Pip) Bird1, Ms Megan Chidgey2 1Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services, Broome, Australia, 2Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services, Broome, Australia Biography: Registered Nurse from New Zealand with 45 years nursing experience mainly in Primary Care Clinics. I have been working in...

Mrs Nichole Callan1, MS Mary Small1 1Little Wings, Bankstown, Australia, 2Western NSW LHD, Warren, Australia Biography: Nichole Callan is a Registered Nurse and Child Family Health Nurse, proud Gomeroi woman from Baradine, NSW, with over 30 years' experience in rural...

Mr Rob Manning1 1Manageabilty Healthcare Solutuions, Darwin, Australia Biography: Rob Manning is an experienced healthcare leader with extensive expertise in remote and Indigenous health. Rob has been a Nurse since 1986, started working as a midwife in 1990 and from...