Dr Esther Willing (Ngāti Toarangatira, Ngāti Koata, Ngā Ruahine) is a Senior Lecturer in Hauora Māori at Kōhatu – Centre for Hauora Māori at the University of Otago in Dunedin. Her research has focused on understanding how health policy and health services can improve Māori health outcomes and eliminate health inequities between Māori and non-Māori New Zealanders. Much of her research and teaching focuses on te Tiriti o Waitangi and how te Tiriti could be used as a foundation for equitable outcomes in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Bridget Burdett is a Principal Researcher at MRCagney, based in Hamilton. She works on transport research, policy, and practice for a variety of government, university, and private sector clients around New Zealand. Bridget is a Chartered Engineer in transport with a doctorate in cognitive psychology, and is Vice Chair of Engineering New Zealand's Transportation Group. Bridget regularly presents on inclusive access and road safety to audiences of transport professionals and community, with a focus on challenging us all to think about what ‘best practice’ means for the people we work with, and those we serve.

A paediatrician and public health physician by training, Shanthi is a Professor of Public Health at the University of Auckland and Senior Researcher at Counties Manukau Health (Population Health Directorate and Kidz First Hospital). Her internationally recognized research focuses on transport and health, injury prevention, trauma care and disability. Her work is motivated by the challenging gaps between the rhetoric and reality of community wellbeing from an equity perspective. As she sees it, this has much to do with who is at the table and who is out of sight and out of mind. She has published widely and serves on multiple national and international advisory boards. She and her work with national and international collaborators have been recognised with the Te Manāia Leadership Award for Injury Prevention and the Prince Michael International Road Safety Award.

Karen Witten is a geographer and psychologist with research interests in neighbourhood design and how housing, transport, amenity access and social environments influence the everyday mobility, health and wellbeing of residents. She is a Professor of Public Health at the SHORE & Whariki Research Centre, Massey University, Auckland.

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