AI & Public Health Conference 2026

Prof. Enrico Coiera

Director
Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation​

Trained in medicine and with a computer science PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Professor Coiera has a 35-year research background spanning industry and academia with a strong international research reputation for his work on clinical AI and decision support. Professor Coiera is the founder of The Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAAiH).

Dr Laura Espinosa

Expert Epidemic Intelligence
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control

Dr Espinosa is an Epidemic Intelligence Expert at ECDC and a graduated PhD from EPFL Digital Epidemiology Lab in Switzerland. She is a public health veterinarian with further specialisation in digital technologies.
 
She has focused her career on public health from an international perspective. She has been involved in ECDC activities in the past 10 years related to several public health events of international concern.
 
In the past years, she has broadened her expertise on artificial intelligence and the implementation of machine learning and deep learning in public health, and on the leverage of social media for public health functions. She is currently leading the digitalisation of early detection of threats through artificial intelligence and other technologies at ECDC.

Dr Julie Ayre

Senior Research Fellow
Sydney Health Literacy Lab, University of Sydney

Dr Ayre is an NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow (2023-2027) at the Sydney Health Literacy Lab, University of Sydney. Her research focuses on using digital technology to support health literacy initiatives in the healthcare workforce and the community. She has a strong track record with >80 publications in high quality national and international journals (e.g. npj Digital Medicine, MJA). Dr Ayre sits on the Scientific Advisory Team for the Australian Government’s National Health Literacy Framework.

Distinguished Professor Craig Olsson

Deakin Distinguished Professor and Director
Deakin Lifespan Institute

Deakin Distinguished Professor and Director, Deakin Lifespan Institute, Faculty of Health/School of Psychology
NHMRC Leadership Fellow: Lifecourse Epidemiology 
Scientific Director: The Australian Temperament Project Generation 3 Study
The Victorian Adolescent and Intergenerational Health Cohort Study
Founding Scientific Convener: MCRI LifeCourse Initiative
National Convenor: The Australian Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY) Longitudinal Studies Network.

Fields of Research:

• Applied and developmental psychology

• Social determinants of health

• Behavioural epidemiology

• Social epidemiology

• Epidemiology

• Child and adolescent development

• Psychology of ageing

Prof. Clair Sullivan

Director, Queensland Digital Health Centre
The University of Queensland

Professor Clair Sullivan is an internationally recognised clinical informatician, clinician and research leader driving digital health transformation in Queensland and globally. She is Director of the Queensland Digital Health Centre at The University of Queensland and Clinical Director for Community Diabetes at Metro North Health. A specialist endocrinologist, she holds a Research Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Leeds and has held senior leadership roles across government and academia since 2014.

Professor Sullivan has generated more than $70M in research funding and currently leads over $35M in active grants, including 6 MRFF projects (3 as CIA), 4 NHMRC projects and 3 ARC Linkage projects (1 as CIA). She leads a $110M+ research centre and is ranked in the top 1% globally in Medical Informatics, with over 150 publications.

Her work spans research, clinical practice and policy, with a strong track record of translating digital innovation into real-world impact. Through her leadership, she continues to shape national and international approaches to digital health, influencing how healthcare systems are designed, delivered and sustained into the future.

Ms Amanda Cattermole PSM

Chief Executive Officer
Australian Digital Health Agency

Ms Amanda Cattermole PSM is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Digital Health Agency, a role she commenced in September 2020.

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Auspiced by the governments of Australia, the Agency is the steward for digital enablement of Australia’s health system, with a lead role in coordinating national engagement, delivery and adoption of digital health to enable person-centred, connected healthcare.

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Amanda has previously held senior roles in Commonwealth entities, including Treasury, the former Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and Services Australia.

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She has also held senior State government roles in the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services and the Western Australian Department of Indigenous Affairs. In her earlier career Amanda worked as a lawyer in Victoria, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

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Amanda holds a Bachelor of Laws, a Bachelor of Commerce, a Master of Laws and a Master of Business Administration. In 2013, she received the Public Service Medal for outstanding public service leading reform in providing housing for Indigenous people in remote communities and the National Gambling Reform laws.