Speakers

Professor Andrew May

Social Historian and Professor of Australian History, School of Historical & Philosophical Studies, the University of Melbourne

Prof Andrew J. May is a social historian and Professor of Australian History in the School of Historical & Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne where he has been a Faculty member since 2000. He has published widely on the social experience of the Australian city, including Melbourne Street Life (1998), Espresso! Melbourne Coffee Stories (2001), Federation Square (2003, with Norman Day), and as principal editor of The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (2005).

As facilitator of the Melbourne History Workshop, he oversees a studio-based research collaboratory in the History Program which taps the pooled expertise of staff, research higher degree students and affiliates in order to provide innovative and rigorously-applied historical research, postgraduate training, industry collaboration and community-facing projects. He has further interest in aspects of colonialism in India, his key contribution to the scholarship being Welsh Missionaries and British Imperialism: The Empire of Clouds in North-East India (2012).

Professor Anne Cust

Cancer Epidemiologist, and Deputy Director of the Daffodil Centre

Professor Anne Cust is a cancer epidemiologist whose research is primarily focused on the prevention and early detection of melanoma and other skin cancers. She is interim Director of the Daffodil Centre and is a Faculty member of the Melanoma Institute Australia. She is Chair of the Cancer Council National Skin Cancer Committee, Chair of the NSW Skin Cancer Prevention Advisory Committee, and a Past-President of the Australasian Epidemiological Association. She is leading an Australian government-funded Roadmap for a National Targeted Skin Cancer Screening Program.

Recommended Readings 

• Personalized melanoma risk assessments and tailored prevention advice: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial in Australian general practice - PubMed
• Implementing systematic melanoma risk assessment and risk‐tailored surveillance in a skin cancer focussed dermatology clinic: A qualitative study of feasibility and acceptability to patients and clinic staff - Smith - 2024 - Cancer Medicine - Wiley Online Library
• RACGP - Skin cancer prevention in Australia
• Scan Your Skin – We all have skin & we all live under the sun
• Skin cancer resources for health professionals - SunSmart
• Sun-Exposure-Summit-Position-Statement_V1.11.pdf