Professor Dudgeon is from the Bardi people of the Kimberley. She was the first qualified Indigenous psychologist. She is well known for her leadership in Indigenous higher education and was Head of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University for 19 years. Currently she is a research fellow and an associate professor at the University of Western Australia. She is actively involved with the Aboriginal community, having an ongoing commitment to social justice for Indigenous people.

Professor Dudgeon was the Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health Advisory Group and is currently Co-chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Advisory Group, Chair of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Leadership in Mental Health group and a member of the National Mental Health Commission.

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Winthrop Professor Jill Milroy is a Palyku woman whose country is in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. She is Dean of the School of Indigenous Studies at UWA, which under her leadership has been highly successful in developing preparatory and support programs for Indigenous students in professional degrees including Law and Medicine. The success of these programs has been recognised by two national teaching excellence awards.

Professor Milroy taught Aboriginal history for 15 years and has significant expertise in Indigenous curriculum development across a range of disciplines including health, landscape design, education and law. She is currently working on a project to design Indigenous curriculum in Engineering. The key focus of her research is in Aboriginal story systems and she creates and tells stories with her mother Gladys Milroy, a Palyku Elder.

The basis of their work is the rights of Aboriginal children to be born into stories. Professor Milroy's more than 30 years experience in Indigenous higher education has included serving on a number of national advisory bodies, committees and reviews. She has been a strong advocate within the national higher education arena for the formal recognition and resourcing of Indigenous knowledge systems. In 2011 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in recognition of her services to Indigenous education.

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Associate Professor Walker has been involved in research, evaluation and education with Aboriginal communities building local capacity within both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal organisations for thirty years. Roz is a senior researcher with both the University of Western Australia and the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research and a Principal Investigator on the Institute Faculty. She is a Chief Investigator in several national ARC grants as well as in the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence Grant, Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing at the Institute. Roz also serves on a number of high level steering committees and national Indigenous networks.

Her key areas of interest include developing transformative and decolonising strategies at individual, organisational and community levels as well as promoting system level change. She has worked in Aboriginal education in teaching, curriculum development, academic coordination, research and evaluation. She has extensive experience in translating research into policy and practice and community-based participatory action research methods and ethics to achieve health related outcomes. Roz has taught extensively at undergraduate and graduate levels in Aboriginal community management and development and early years education in remote areas.

Roz co-edited both the first and second editions of the Working Together Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice and led the highly effective communication and dissemination strategy for the book which saw over 50,000 hard copies and 50,000 downloads of the first edition disseminated to mental health practitioners and students throughout Australia. Roz has published widely in Aboriginal maternal and child health and mental health and wellbeing and co-led the Close the Gap paper examining Effective Strategies for Indigenous Mental Health and Wellbeing.

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