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Nicola Warren is the Head of Psychiatry and the Director of Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research (QCMHR). In 2018, she established the Neuropsychiatric Service at Metro South Health focusing on the psychiatric care of those with severe movement disorders, epilepsy and autoimmune encephalitis and continues working clinically. She has undertaken a PhD in psychiatric clinical decision making in anti-NMDAR encephalitis and has been an international and national invited speaker in the area of autoimmune encephalitis. Nicola was awarded the Australian fellowship to the World Psychiatric Association 2020 and the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists Early Career Psychiatrist in 2019.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
• Fellow of the Aus & NZ College of Psychiatrists (Certificate Consultation Liaison Psychiatry)
• Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery, James Cook University

Leticia is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Women and Girls’ Health Research Centre, School of Public Health. She is a public health researcher and nutritionist with expertise in women’s health, life course epidemiology, physical function, and chronic disease prevention. Her research focuses on understanding how biological, behavioural, and social factors across the life course influence the health of women and girls, using longitudinal and intergenerational data. Before joining UQ, she specialised in public health nutrition (2015) and paediatric nutrition and dietetics (2017), working across clinical care, community health, nutrition education, and research in Brazil. She is passionate about producing research that informs evidence-based public health policy and contributes to improving health outcomes for women across the lifespan.

Maiden name: Ellen Maree Leslie

Dr Ellen Wessel is a Research Fellow in the School of Public Health, with backgrounds in both public health and criminology. Her research interests include women's health, alcohol and other drug use, and policing.

Dr Mikaela Wheeler is a lecturer in the School of Public Health and has clinical and research expertise as a dietitian-nutritionist in residential aged care and community settings. Using mixed methods and co-design methodology, her research focuses on improving the lives of older people through system design to tackle imminent problems, including poor nutrition, social isolation, loneliness, and specialist care for people living with dementia. In her teaching, Mikaela delivers undergraduate courses in chronic disease and nutrition across the lifespan and is part of the Advocacy and Public Health teaching team in the Medical Program.

Dr Louise Wilson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with a focus on mentrual disorders and on women's use of health services over the lifecourse. Dr Wilson completed a PhD at the University of Queensland in women’s health in 2019. While doing her PhD, she worked part-time at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute doing research on cancer prevention. Prior to this, she had an extensive career in program planning and implementation in the Australian government across the health, aged care, housing and education sectors.

Dr Kate Wingrove is a Research Fellow with a PhD in Public Health Nutrition. Kate works collaboratively to inform policies and practices that promote food security, health and wellbeing, particularly in regional and remote communities.

Dr Xiaoyun Zhou is a Senior Research Fellow at the COE Centre for Indigenous Futures and Faculty of Business, Econimics and Law, The University of Queensland. She has a multidisciplinary background spanning psychology, mental health, and digital health, with a strong research focus on digital mental health interventions for children and adolescents. Dr Zhou holds a PhD in Health and Behavioural Sciences from UQ, where she developed and evaluated a culturally tailored digital mental health intervention for Chinese adolescents. Her doctoral work employed mixed methods, including a cluster randomized controlled trial, and was supported by multiple competitive awards, including the UQ Research Training Program Scholarship. Her research expertise includes both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. She has extensive experience working with large national datasets, such as Census and Medicare data, and linked datasets. She has also led several studies related to child and adolescent mental health. Dr Zhou is a member of the Australasian Institute of Digital Health (AIDH), Chinese Psychological Society (CPS) and the American Psychological Association (APA).