Dr. Tracie Afifi is a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Childhood Adversity and Resilience, a Professor in the Departments of Community Health Sciences and Psychiatry at the University of Manitoba, and a Research Scientist at the Children’s Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba.She is also an Associate Editor of Child Abuse & Neglect. Dr. Afifi’s primary research interests are in the areas of child maltreatment and mental health with a focus on resilience, intervention and prevention. She has published over 160 peer-reviewed journal publications and has 160 conference presentations at national and international conferences. To date, she has been awarded $33.5 million in research funding as Principal or Co-Investigator. Dr. Afifi is an inducted college member of the Royal Society of Canada, the 2018 recipient of the Royal-Mach-Gaensslen Prize for Mental Health Research, the 2019 recipient of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Gold Leaf Award, the 2020 Alexander Leighton Award in psychiatric epidemiology, and named Canada’s 2021 top 100 most powerful women by the WXN Diversity Council of Canada.

Paul Dufour is Principal of PaulicyWorks based in Gatineau, Quebec and Senior Fellow with the Univerty of Ottawa's Institute for Science, Society and Policy. In addition, he is a Board member the Ottawa Science Policy Network, and a mentor for the Chief Science Advisor of Canada's Youth Council. Mr Dufour served as interim executive director of the Office of the National Science Adviser to the Government of Canada. Mr Dufour was a member of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society gold medal award-winning Canadian National Committee for the International Polar Year. With over four decades of experience in policy advice, he was the lead of the Research on Knowledge Systems project with the International Development Research Centre; managed the science and technology attache network at Foreign Affairs Canada; headed the international partnerships group at Natural Resources Canada, and was advisor to several of Canada’s Ministers for Science, Research and Development. He was an Investment Committee Member of Grand Challenges Canada for global health for eight years. Mr Dufour was also research advisor for the Science Council of Canada in the early 80s and 90s. Born in Montréal, Mr. Dufour was educated at McGill, the Université de Montréal and Concordia University in the history of science and science policy. He writes regularly for various research magazines and publications, and consults on global developments in science and technology. He co-edited the Cartermill Series of books on science in Japan, Germany, the UK and Southern Europe. He is the author of the Canada Chapter for UNESCO’s 2020 (as well as those for 2015 and 2010). He is also co-editor of the book on the contributions of the Science Council of Canada to the science, technology and innovation debates as well as co-editor of selected speeches and remarks of Nobel laureate Gerhard Herzberg on The Value of Science in Society and Culture. In 2019, Mr Dufour was the first recipient of the Canadian Science Policy Centre Award for Exceptional Achievement in Science Policy.

Maud Ferrari is a Professor in the Departments of Veterinary Biomedical Science and Biology, at the University of Saskatchewan. She is a fellow of the College of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research interests lay in behavioural, cognitive and evolutionary ecology in general, along with understanding how environmental change (both natural and anthropogenic) affects the ecology of predator-prey interactions.

C. Scott Findlay is a Researcher in Residence at the Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada, and former director of the Institute of Environment at the University of Ottawa. His research interests include evolutionary game theory, the evolution of therapeutic resistance in cancer, the impacts of human activities on ecosystems, species at risk, and more recently, the relationship between law and science and the (appropriate) role scientific evidence in policy and regulatory decision-making. At the Office of the Chief Science Advisor, he leads files on impact assessment, biodiversity conservation, climate change adaptation and scientific integrity.

Dawn Kellett is a Research Scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada branch of Natural Resources Canada. Her research focuses on the tectonic evolution of mountain belts using a range of structural, metamorphic and geochronology approaches. In addition to her role as Senior Editor of FACETS, she is an associate editor for Journal of Geophysical Research - Solid Earth and the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.

Dr. David Lesbarrères is an evolutionary ecologist dedicated to evidence-based policy, preserving biodiversity and training the next generation of conservation scientists. He brings a broad general knowledge and curiosity about a breadth of conservation issues and approaches at the interface of science and policy. He currently works as a Biodiversity and Conservation Scientist for Environment Canada. His research focuses on the ecology and species diversity of amphibians and reptiles, and their associated pathogens in a OneHealth framework recognizing the importance of maintaining the healthy environment that has been cared for by generations before us.

Dr. Parminder Raina is a Professor in the Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at McMaster University. He specializes in the epidemiology of aging with emphasis on developing the interdisciplinary field of geroscience to understand the processes of aging from cell to society. He has expertise in epidemiologic modeling, systematic review methodology, injury, and knowledge transfer. Dr. Raina is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, holds a Canada Research Chair in Geroscience, and the Raymond and Margaret Labarge Chair in Research and Knowledge Application for Optimal Aging. He is the inaugural Scientific Director of the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging, and The Labarge Centre for Mobility in Aging, and is the lead principal investigator of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. He is one of the founding members of the McMaster Optimal Aging

Professor Vance L. Trudeau holds the University of Ottawa Research Chair in Neuroendocrinology and leads a team of dynamic graduate students with wide interests. His group's research is directed towards understanding how the vertebrate brain regulates anterior pituitary hormones that control sexual development and reproduction using fish and frog models. Applications of this basic research include spawning induction methods for endangered animals, among others. One of the most compelling recent discoveries is the fundamental role of a peptide called secretoneurin. We have made the proposal that it is a new reproductive hormone. The team also studies the effects of sex steroids and pollutants (pharmaceuticals, pesticides, petroleum products) on development and reproduction in fish and frogs. This concept is called endocrine disruption. This has important implications for environmental and human health because many of these hormonal systems are conserved across species. This means that what is discovered in one species, has major implications in other vertebrates, including humans.