Associate Professor Michael Fitzharris is the Associate Director of Regulation and In-depth Crash Investigations at the Accident Research Centre and the Injury Outcomes Research Unit. He also holds a Honorary staff position at the National Trauma Research Institute at The Alfred. He completed his PhD in psychology which examined the physical and mental health consequences (including PTSD and depression) of serious injury sustained in road crashes. From a theoretical perspective, the role personality and coping styles to stress and their relationship to health outcomes post-crash was the primary focus. Michael's research program covers the entire crash-continuum (pre-crash, crash, post-crash) and is centred on measures that prevent crashes, mitigate injury, and improve post-crash health outcomes. A/Prof Fitzharris has significant international road safety experience having been the Foundation Director of the Accident Research Centre at Monash University South Africa, Johannesburg (2008-2010). In this role he had responsibility for the development of research and capacity building programmes in the areas of road safety and acute care and trauma. This saw the development of key partnerships in South Africa, Tanzania, Botswana and in particular, Namibia through the MVA Fund where he currently supervises a PhD student examining the incidence and cost of rollover crashes. Prior to the position in Johannesburg, he was employed at The George Institute for Global Health (2007-2008) in the Critical Care and Trauma Division where the research focus was health outcomes post-trauma, pre-hospital care and the conduct of randomised controlled trials in intensive care units; he also played a key role in the establishment of a trauma registry research program in China and in the analysis of motorcycle crashes in Hyderabad, India. He has sat on a number of expert groups, including for the World Health Organisation Global Status Report on Road Safety (2007/2009), and has been involved in Make Roads Safe Decade of Action activities in Africa. He has published many reports for government and industry, as well as in the international academic literature (https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=paC2Hd8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao). Michael is a member of the Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine (AAAM) and the Australian College of Road Safety (ACRS). He is an accredited coder using the Abbreviated Injury Scale (AIS) by the AAAM.

Patrick is a senior transport planner based in Auckland, New Zealand. His interests comprise evidence-based modelling of complex interactions between human behaviour, transport system, land-use and policy to assist key transport strategies. He received a Master Degree in Spatial Development and Infrastructure Systems at ETH Zurich, majoring in traffic planning. After working for the Swiss Railways for 6 years and delivering a highly innovative transport model, Patrick moved to New Zealand. He now works with Arup NZ on co-developing and applying a nationwide agent-based, multimodal transport model with the Ministry of Transport.