Professor Ernest Hunter
Professor Ernest Hunter is an Australian medical graduate trained in psychiatry and public health in the USA.
He has worked for the last two decades in remote Indigenous populations across northern Australia.
He is Regional Psychiatrist with Queensland Health and Adjunct Professor in the School of Population Health, University of Queensland based in Cairns.
Dr Norman Swan (Chair)
Dr Norman Swan 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.
