Alya Hazfiarini is a PhD candidate and research assistant in the Gender and Women's Health Unit at Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne. She is passionate about equal access to women's sexual and reproductive health rights. She has a Master of Public Health from the University of Melbourne and experience in maternal health research projects in rural areas of Indonesia before coming to Australia. As a research assistant, she supports a range of global women's health research projects aiming to improve women's access to respectful, equitable and high quality maternity care.

Meghan Bohren is a Professor and Head of the Gender and Women’s Health Unit, at the School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne. She leads primary mixed-methods, implementation research, and systematic reviews related to improving women’s experiences with pregnancy and childbirth care, and works primarily with groups who are disadvantaged by systems of power. Prof Bohren has a particular interest in using innovative qualitative research methods to bring community and health worker voices to public health and clinical guideline development.

Professor Caroline Homer AO is Deputy Director, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne and Emeritus Professor of Midwifery in the Faculty of Health at the University of Technology Sydney. She is the Chair of the Australian’s National Health and Medical Research Council, Deputy Chair of the Australian Medical Advisory Board for the Medical Research Future Fund and Chair of WHO’s Strategic Technical Advisory Committee for Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (STAGE). Caroline has been part of WHO guideline panels for many years including the recent postnatal care guidelines.

Caroline has led research and development in midwifery, maternal and newborn health for more than 25 years in Australia and across the Asia-Pacific region. She has been a key contributor to multiple State of the World’s Midwifery reports since 2014 and was a lead researcher on the Lancet Series on Midwifery. She works closely with WHO and UNFPA on strengthening midwifery.

She also holds honorary professorial roles at Deakin, Monash, Cardiff, King’s College London and the University of Melbourne.

Professor Tari Turner is Director of the Australian Living Evidence Collaboration, leading development of living guidelines, and a Professor (Research) at Cochrane Australia.

Tari leads research developing and evaluating innovative methods for evidence synthesis, including living systematic reviews and living guidelines & novel methods for assessment of pre-clinical evidence in vaccine development; and translating synthesised evidence into improved healthcare practice and policy.

Tari’s passion is supporting evidence-based decision-making to ensure the best possible outcomes, particularly for women and children in low resource settings. She enjoys designing, finding, synthesising and communicating research, and she loves seeing research actually make a difference.

She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from Monash University, a Master of Business from Swinburne University, a Post Graduate Certificate in Biostatistics from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Biomedical Science from Monash University.

Rana Islamiah Zahroh is a Research Fellow at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne. She uses mixed-methods research on ensuring women can exercise their rights during pregnancy and labour, focusing on improving women’s engagement in maternity care and ensuring timely access to life-saving interventions. Her work ranges from exploring childbirth decision-making to improving access to essential interventions for preterm birth.

Istiani Nur Chasanah is a midwife with a Diploma III from the Yogyakarta Midwifery Academy. She has 9 years of midwifery experience in integrated antenatal, intranatal, and postnatal care. She also currently serves on the Family Support Team established by the National Population and Family Planning Board (BKKBN) to accelerate efforts to reduce stunting. In addition to her clinical duties, Isti has been involved in several part-time maternal health research.

Professor Detty Siti Nurdiati is a lecturer, researcher and consultant for fetomaternal medicine at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) and Dr Sardjito Hospital, Indonesia.

Her research interests and lecture topics include obstetric and gynaecology, reproductive health, and nutrition and evidence based medicine.

Detty holds a B.Med from UGM and a Master’s degree and PhD in Public Health from Umea University, Sweden.

Dr. Fitriana Ekawati is a family medicine specialist from Indonesia with an extensive background in primary care and health systems research. She holds Master and PhD from the University of Melbourne, where her doctoral research focused on developing primary care–based clinical pathways for the management of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and a master’s degree examining patient experiences in primary healthcare within Indonesia’s Universal Health Coverage (JKN) system. Her academic and professional interests encompass maternal, women's and adolescent health, primary care strengthening, patient-centered care, and the development of evidence-informed policies and service models to support integrated and equitable healthcare delivery.