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

Before moving to Australia in 2009, Alison worked at the Royal College of Nursing in executive leadership, education and research roles. She has published over 300 peer reviewed articles and in 2014 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 on knowledge translation.

Her contribution to nursing and health service research continue to be recognised internationally. Honours include, Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science (2015); Honorary Doctorate from Malmo University (2013); Fellowship of the American Nurses Association (2011). Earlier awards include the Florence Nightingale Leadership Award in 2004; Distinguished Graduate of the Year from the University of Ulster in 2002, a Florence Nightingale Travel Award in 1999 (The Edith Cavell Travel Fellowship) and a Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in 1991.

Alison is an Adjunct Professor at Aalborg University, Denmark and a Visiting Professor at Oxford Brookes University and QUT. She is also an Associate Research Fellow of Green Templeton College, University of Oxford. In 2017 she was appointed to the Board of the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care.

Since early 2015 Jane Mussared has been the Chief Executive of COTA SA, an organisation promoting the rights, needs and aspirations of older South Australians.

Jane was previously the executive responsible for People and Innovation with an aged care provider and before that the Manager of the State Government Office for the Ageing.

Jane is also on the Board of the Maggie Beer Foundation and the Deputy Chair of Cirkidz.

Jane is a past Winner of the SA Innovation Award in the Telstra Business Women’s Awards and of a Sanicare Overseas study Scholarship. Jane has a Masters’ Degree in Social Work (majoring in social policy and research) from the University of Michigan.

Julie Ratcliffe is the Mathew Flinders Professor of Health Economics in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University.

She is also the inaugural Health and Social Care Economics Theme lead for the newly established Caring Futures Institute. Professor Ratcliffe has recently led a program of work for the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety to investigate the general public’s preferences for quality of care and future funding of Australia’s aged care system. 

She is the lead investigator for an Australian Research Council funded project to develop a suite of new quality of life instruments for aged care working with provider organisations and older Australians spanning five Australian states and territories. She holds Honorary Professorial appointments at the School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield and the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow. 

Professor Ratcliffe is health and social care economics expert member of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) Council on Economic Policy, and an invited international expert member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Expert Advisory Group for the Development of Social Care Economic Evaluation Methods for NICE Social Care Guidelines.

Lyn has an extensive background in tertiary, secondary and primary healthcare in South Australia and New South Wales, commencing her career as a Registered Nurse in 1990 and specialising in Critical Care Nursing.  

Lyn has held executive roles in both New South Wales and South Australia and has extensive experience working in partnership with hospital services, primary health care, state government agencies, non-government organisations, universities and the private sector. 

As Chief Executive of Wellbeing SA, Lyn is committed to improving the physical, social and mental wellbeing of all South Australians.