Julie McCrossin talks to people for a living.  She presented the radio show Life Matters on ABC Radio National for 5 years until 2005, initially with Geraldine Doogue and then as solo presenter, covering countless health, welfare and educational topics with a frequent rural focus.

Julie was also a team leader on the media quiz show Good News Week for 5 years on Network Ten and ABC TV.

Julie began working for the ABC in 1983 and she's presented many Radio National programs including Background Briefing and Arts National, as well as stints on ABC Rural Radio and 702ABC Sydney.

Currently Julie presents a travel program called Up and Away for Qantas in-flight entertainment on Radio Q, writes for the new ABC magazine Life Etc and facilitates conferences and training seminars nationally.

For over 20 years Julie has hosted hundreds of public events including the Alcohol Summit Youth Forum for the Commission for Children & Young People as part of the 2003 NSW Summit on Alcohol and the Childhood Obesity Summit for the NSW Government with Co-Chair Richard Walsh.

Julie has university qualifications in the arts, education and law and she is an Ambassador for NAPCAN (The National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect).

Professor Elizabeth Elliott (MBBS MD FRACP FRCP FRCPCH) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sydney and Consultant Paediatrician at The Children's Hospital at Westmead.

She trained in paediatric gastroenterology and her MD thesis on Oral Rehydration Therapy: a reappraisal was conducted at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children in London.  This included randomised controlled trials on oral rehydration solutions in children with gastroenteritis and use of human and animal gut perfusion models to determine the optimal composition of oral rehydration solutions.

Professor Elliott founded CEBPGAN in 2001 and is involved in running EBM courses nationally.

She has published extensively both in paediatric gastroenterology and EBM and is Senior Associate Editor of an international text titled Evidence Based Pediatrics and Child Health, first published in 2000 by BMJ Books.

Professor Elliott is also a co-author of Scientific Writing: easy when you know how (BMJ books 2002) which is also released as an e-book.

Dr Norman Swan (MBChB FRCP DCH) regularly presents Rural Health Education Foundation satellite broadcasts.

He is best-known for his wide broadcasting experience, including the award-winning Health Report, which he produces and presents for ABC Radio National - as well as his other ABC Radio and Television program hosting.

Dr Swan trained in Medicine in Scotland and in Paediatrics in London and Sydney. A broadcaster and journalist with the ABC's Science Unit since 1982, he has been Australian Producer of the Year and was awarded a Gold Citation in the United Nations Media Peace Prizes.

In 2004 Dr Swan was honoured by the Australian Academy of Science, which presented him with an Academy Medal, only the third time such an award has been made.  The Academy gave it for his outstanding contributions to science in the public domain. Around the same time, the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow made him a Fellow.

He has won an Australian Writers' Guild Award, three Walkley National Awards for Journalism and the Michael Daley Award for Science Journalism on two occasions.

In addition to his broadcasting, he edits his own newsletter, The Health Reader, published in association with Choice magazine, and has been the Australian correspondent for the Journal of the American Medical Association and the BMJ.  He has also consulted to the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Geneva.