Australian Public Health Conference 2025

Jonathan Gilmour is a Data Scientist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. His work focuses on human health impacts of climate change and the environmental impacts of AI and data centers. He is also leading federal data and informational resource preservation work with the Public Environmental Data Partners and tracking the impacts of federal policy changes at The Impact Project. He previously was a Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the Aspen Policy Academy, an advisor to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Pandemic Prevention Initiative, and a Data Infrastructure Engineer at The COVID Tracking Project at The Atlantic.

Dr Katie Woolaston believes that biodiversity conservation should be mainstreamed into all areas of governance from local, to international, as a means of mitigating the triple planetary crisis. Katie holds a Masters in Law (specialising in Human Rights & Social Justice) from the University of New South Wales, and a PhD in Environmental Law from Griffith University. Katie was an expert on the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) panel concerning Biodiversity and Pandemics, and is the Chair of the Technical Advisory Group of the 'Nature4Health' Initiative. Her first book, titled ‘Ecological Vulnerability: The Law and Governance of Human-Wildlife Relationships’ was published by Cambridge University Press in 2022, and her second, ‘The Cambridge Handbook on One Health and the Law’ will be published in 2025.