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	Professor Wendy Brown Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University
	Professor Karla Canuto Public Health, College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University
	Professor David Dunstan Baker-Deakin Department of Lifestyle and Diabetes. Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute; Deakin Institute of Physical Activity and Nutrition, Deakin University
	Associate Professor Sjaan Gomersall Health and Wellbeing Centre for Research Innovation, University of Queensland
	Stephen Hodge We Ride Australia
	Peta Lucas Centre for Population Health, NSW Ministry of Health
	Peter McCue School of Population Health, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW Sydney
	Distinguished Professor Anthony Okely University of Wollongong (to January 2026); Excelsior University College
	Distinguished Professor Neville Owen School of Health Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology; Physical Activity Laboratory, Baker Heart & Diabetes Institute
	Michelle Prior Department of Transport and Major Infrastructure, Western Australia
	Deakin Distinguished Professor Jo Salmon Deakin Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition, School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University
	Professor Cathie Sherrington Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney; Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Sydney Local Health District; South Western Sydney Local Health District
	Adjunct Professor Trevor Shilton Curtin School of Population Health, Curtin University

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