Jasmine Kirk is a Registered Midwife and Federal Professional Officer of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation.

Alison Weatherstone is a contemporary dual qualified Midwife, completing a postgraduate diploma of Midwifery at Curtin University in Western Australia and Master of Primary Maternity Care at Griffith University. With lived experience across Western Australia, Victoria, Queensland and Kenya, she has a special interest in rural and remote midwifery. She is Chief Midwife at ACM.

Dr Samantha Thomas is sonographer in obstetric and general ultrasound and has a PhD in communicating adverse findings to pregnant patients.

Bonney Corbin (she/they) is Chair of the Australian Women’s Health Alliance, is a member of the National Women's Health Advisory Council, and is Director of Advocacy at MSI Asia Pacific. Bonney works with national and regional change makers to increase health equity, supporting evidence-based policy reforms alongside evolving models of care.

Amanda Bowles is a collaborative and inspiring leader focused on solution based strategies. Never satisfied with the status quo, Bowles used her personal experience of loss to ensure Bears Of Hope is the leader in engagement and support services for bereaved parents in Australia.

Dr Nicole Highet is the Founder and Executive Director of the Centre of Perinatal Excellence (COPE) and Chair of the 2023 National Perinatal Mental Health Guideline Expert Committee. Nicole founded COPE in 2013 to build a more sustainable, inclusive, and measurable approach to perinatal mental health in Australia. COPE has a dedicated focus on reducing the challenges faced by hopeful, expectant and new parents and supporting professionals in the identification, referral, and treatment of perinatal mental health conditions.

Dr Kristine Barnden trained as an Obstetrician and Gynaecologist in Tasmania, Victoria and South Australia. Her primary clinical focus is women’s ultrasound and high-risk antenatal care. She works in Hobart at the Royal Hobart Hospital and Women’s Imaging. Dr Barnden has a longstanding interest in the role of the environment, and the physical, nutritional, and emotional health of parents, in influencing pregnancy outcomes. She is an active member of Doctors for the Environment Australia and represents the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG) on the Climate Change and Health Multi College Advisory Committee and worked with RANZCOG to develop an information resource on air pollution and pregnancy.

Dr Alexandra Bonner is a member of the EPNV, a multidisciplinary network of clinicians working in Early Pregnancy units within Victorian Hospitals with a focus on sharing clinical experience and expertise in optimizing outcomes for patients experiencing miscarriage, ectopic and molar pregnancy. Alex is an Obstetrician Gynaecologist at Barwon Health, University Hospital Geelong, where she is the Clinical Lead for their Early Pregnancy Assessment Service.

Melissa King founded Miscarriage Information Support Service (MISS) in April 2012, after the loss of her baby to miscarriage, and finding it difficult to find sensitive support, a miscarriage specific service and pregnancy loss resources after this experience. She has a Master of Counselling, Graduate Diploma in Applied Psychology, Bachelor of Arts (Psychology), and a Diploma of Business (Frontline Management) and currently serves as the President of MISS.

Frances Bilbao is an experienced health sector leader, private practice owner, Director and Clinical Psychologist. She was the 2020-2021 Allied Health Awards Psychologist of the Year for her establishment and operation of Mums Matter Psychology, a perinatal psychology practice with a social conscience. Bilbao is a full member of the APS where she is the National Convenor of the Perinatal and Infant Psychology Interest group and Fellow of the College of Clinical Psychologists.

Julie Borninkhof is a passionate and recognised not-for-profit, for-purpose leader who has been with PANDA since 2019. Berkinhoff is a Clinical Psychologist who has worked across primary and tertiary settings, namely with people from vulnerable and diverse communities. She is passionate about ensuring that people’s lived experience informs the development of progressive systems and responsive services.

Sam Payne is CEO and Co-Founder of The Pink Elephants Support Network, a national charity that provides the latest resources, information, and peer support for anyone impacted by early pregnancy loss. Payne is driven to ensure no one faces the journey of early pregnancy loss alone and that every bereaved parent receives the support, empathy, and understanding they deserve.

Dr Nisha Khot is Board Director and Vice-President Elect of RANZCOG. She is clinical director of obstetrics and gynaecology at Peninsula Health in Melbourne. She trained in India and the UK before moving to Australia. In her previous role, she was the clinical director of Bacchus Marsh hospital and led the cultural transformation of the maternity unit. She is also board director of Rural Doctors Association of Victoria (RDAV) and Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health (MCWH). She chairs the Specialist International Medical Graduates Committee and the Gender Equity and Diversity Working Group. She is also an examiner for both Fellowship and Advanced Diploma examinations.

Keren Ludski is the CEO of Red Nose. She has a degree in psychology and has thirty years of clinical and business experience. She has spent the last 18 years as Director of Peace of Mind counselling service in Melbourne providing counselling, supervision and education, specialising in the area of grief and loss. Ludski is also skilled in business, having founded and operated Australian gourmet biscuit company, Kez’s Kitchen, in 1991.

Dr Cate Bailey is a Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics at the University of Melbourne. Her research focusses on economic evaluation in the health and social care sector, specifically for women, children, and caregivers across the life course, as well as quality-of-life tools for evaluation for children and caregivers.

Prof Shaun Brennecke is the University of Melbourne Dunbar Hooper Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a member of the Senior Medical Staff at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Among his various clinical roles at the hospital, he has provided care and support for couples attending the hospital’s Recurrent Miscarriage Clinic for many years.

Cherisse Buzzacott is an Arrernte woman, midwife and mother from Alice Springs. She is the Chair of the Rhodanthe Lipsett Indigenous Midwifery Charitable Fund, a pioneer in the Birthing on Country movement and the Head of Health at Children’s Ground.

After an extensive public policy career, Mary Crooks became the Executive Director of the Victorian Women’s Trust at the end of 1996. She has designed and led ground-breaking community engagement initiatives, such as the Purple Sage Project and Our Watermark Australia. In June 2012, Crooks was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia, for her distinguished services to public policy and advocacy for the advancement of women.

Anna Draffin is a senior leader in the government, nonprofit and private sectors with a focus on policy and investment to drive structural reform and economic and social returns. She brings clear insight from a range of industries that have faced transformation and market uncertainties. She was appointed CEO of PIJI in March 2020, having served as strategic advisor to the board since August 2019.

Clemmie Due is an Associate Professor in Psychology at The University of Adelaide. Her main research expertise lies in the area of cross-cultural psychology, in which she has a particular focus on both grief and support needs following perinatal loss. Her work in this area has focussed on a range of groups who are under-represented in perinatal loss literature to date, especially culturally and linguistically diverse families, people with refugee backgrounds, and men.

Senior Research Associate at UNSW MRC, Director at The Still Nest. Having had her own experience of early miscarriage, Dr El-Assaad is now leading a clinical study investigating the role of the microbiome in early pregnancy loss. She is the Director of The Still Nest, a place of solace for families who have lost babies. She leads various events around this space and is driven to raise awareness around the nuanced challenges pregnancy loss presents in diverse communities. She is the host of The Still Nest Podcast, exploring early pregnancy loss in diverse communities.

Dr Lynore Geia is a Bwgcolman woman, an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander woman from Palm Island, North Queensland. Dr Geia is Professor of Nursing and Midwifery at Edith Cowan University and a veteran registered nurse and midwife. Her work as a health professional has spanned over four decades and is inherently connected with her Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander identity and community leadership, working with families across the life span. Her PhD research was on the intergenerational strength of child rearing practices of Palm Island families.

Associate Professor Green is a reproductive biologist who is a Group Leader at the University of Melbourne, the Deputy Scientific Director Research at Monash IVF, and a Fellow of the Society for Reproductive Biology. He has greater than 20 years of experience using assisted reproductive technologies to identify how environmental factors, especially emerging contaminants and endocrine disrupting chemicals, impact hormone concentrations, as well as sperm, egg and embryo development that underpin the growing incidence of infertility and reproductive disorders in humans and wildlife.

Dr Karin Hammarberg is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. She also works with the Victorian Assisted Reproductive Treatment Authority (VARTA) in a research and research translation role. Dr Hammarberg is a Registered Nurse with 20 years experience as clinical co-ordinator of IVF programs.

Dee McCormack is a Senior Obstetric Consultant / Clinical Academic in the Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide. She trained in Cape Town, South Africa, and worked in Saudi Arabia for a few years. She has been at the WCH since 2005, and her research interest is in Recurrent Miscarriages. She completed a PhD on recurrent miscarriages in 2020. She currently runs recurrent miscarriage clinics in WCH.

Dr Vijay Roach is the former Chair of the Council of Presidents of Medical Colleges and a Visiting Medical Officer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in both public and private practice in Sydney. Vijay is also a past President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG). Dr Roach has a long-standing commitment to social justice and equity, medical education, and health policy. He is a passionate advocate for the importance of kindness and compassion in health care.

Professor Sarah Robertson is Professor of Reproductive Immunology and NHMRC Investigator Fellow in the Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide. Her research is at the international forefront of immune regulation of fertility and pregnancy, and understanding the immune factors that contribute to causing recurrent pregnancy loss.

Dr Sarah Simons is an Emergency Medicine doctor in Naarm/Melbourne with a postgraduate MSc in Global Public Health from University College London. She has a clinical and academic interest in Social Emergency Medicine with a particular focus on gendered healthcare considerations & marginalised communities in the ED setting (such as people affected by hidden homelessness and varying forms of family violence) and how these social vulnerabilities affect healthcare in the emergency setting.

Dr Emma Symes is a clinical psychologist with experience in perinatal and infant mental health. Emma has worked in both the public and private mental health sectors over the past 20 years. She was senior clinical psychologist at the Centre for Women’s Mental Health, the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne. Symes currently operates a private practice in Melbourne, supporting families during the perinatal period.

Prof Meredith Temple-Smith is Deputy Head of Department and Director of Research Training in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne. Dr Temple-Smith co-leads the Miscarriage Australia research program with Dr Jade Bilardi. Her research interests include social research into miscarriage support, sexual health, marginalized groups and primary care settings.

Dr Amita Tuteja is a Senior Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and doctoral candidate at the University of Melbourne with a passion to improve reproductive health services particularly for women from refugee backgrounds.

Prof Beverley Vollenhoven is a Reproductive Endocrinologist and Infertility specialist. She is Head of Gynaecology at Monash Health, Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Carl Wood Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Monash University, and a clinician at Monash IVF.