Claudia M. Gold, MD is a paediatrician and writer who practiced paediatrics for 20 years and now specializes in early relational health. She has over three decades of clinical experience in a wide variety of communities and currently works in a volunteer clinic for uninsured families and as a consultant to a program for pregnant and parenting women struggling with substance use. She was on the faculty of the UMass fellowship in Early Relational Health for ten years.

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Dinah Thomasset is a passionate advocate and expert in maternal mental health, peer support, and early childhood development, with a career spanning over two decades across Australia, France, and the UK. Her extensive experience in the not-for-profit, government, and corporate sectors has equipped her with a unique ability to navigate and influence diverse environments.

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Inaugural Pro Vice Chancellor, Ngangk Yira Institute for Change, and Director of the Yorga, Maaman and Koolanga Research and Advocacy Centre, Murdoch University. AM., PhD., RN., Midwife, Fellow CATSINaM. Matrilineally descended from the Nyikina people of the Kimberley, Prof Marriott, AM has extensive senior University leadership experience, and maintains her professional connection with nursing and midwifery. She champions the translation of codesigned maternal, early childhood and youth research outcomes into national policy and practice to emphasise the strengthening of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander family futures through transformational research. As PVC for the Ngangk Yira Institute for Change, she has drawn together a passionate team of Aboriginal and non-indigenous researchers for meaningful research partnerships with Elders and members from Aboriginal communities across Western Australia. Rhonda’s Birthing on Noongar Boodjar project was voted ’10 of the Best’ by NHMRC and she has very recently been presented with the Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue Leadership Award at the 2024 CATSINaM Conference which she was honored to receive.

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