Head of The Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery (inc. Sydney Nursing School) & Dean,  Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney.

Professor Alison Kitson is the inaugural Vice President and Executive Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University, South Australia. Prior to this appointment she was Dean and Head of School at Adelaide Nursing School at the University of Adelaide.

Alison was the Foundation Director for the Caring Futures Institute, in which she currently leads the Knowledge Translation Enabling Theme. She has published over 300 peer reviewed articles and is a sought-after expert in the techniques and methodologies for effective knowledge translation. In 2014 she was acknowledged in the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Thomas Reuters) list of high cite world researchers for her work in this area.

Her contribution to nursing and health service research continues to be recognised nationally and internationally. Honours include Fellowships of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science (2016); the American Academy of Nursing (2009) and the Royal College of Nursing (1991). Alison has received an Honorary Doctorate from Malmo University (2013), is an Adjunct Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and at Queensland University of Technology. She is a Visiting Professor at University College Dublin, an Honorary Professor at Oxford Brookes University and an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford.

Additionally, Alison is the Chair of the Interim Board for Aged Care Centre for Growth and Translational Research and the SA/NT Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science Fellowship Selection Committee and serves on the editorial board of several prestigious Journals.

Director, Rosemary Bryant AO Research Centre, Professor of Cancer Nursing, University of South Australia

Marion brings more than 30 years’ experience in health care; she does not have a traditional academic background, but one that has been embedded in direct health service delivery, strategy, implementation science and translational research. She has worked in various roles including executive positions in SA across the public, private and not-for-profit sector. She has a public health and acute health service background, and is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Law (honours). 

In 2020 Marion was a finalist in the SA Telstra Business Women’s Awards and in 2015 was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship and Leslie Fleming Fellowship focused on supporting survivors of cancer. 

The team at RBRC are leading national and international research into Nursing and Midwifery workforce and wellbeing during Covid-19 with the plan to support health system interventions to establish workforce wellbeing programs.

Director and Professor of Cancer Nursing, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University

Stronger together: bridging acute and primary care in cancer rehabilitation

Celeste is a registered midwife who has worked in the profession both publicly and privately for the last nine years in various roles such as birthing, postnatal, fertility and pregnancy care. Celeste works as a telephone counsellor for the Nurse and Midwife Support line and as a senior clinician providing counselling for the Nurse and Midwife Health Program of Victoria.    

Celeste has a strong passion and interest in health and wellbeing for nurses and midwives; particularly  around the topics of sleep, nutrition, and stress.