As COVID-19 vaccines begin to rollout across Queensland, we spoke with Infectious Diseases Physicians Dr Trent Yarwood and Dr Naomi Runnegar to get their expert opinions on the available vaccines and find out what it's been like working as infectious disease physicians and co-chairing the newly established Statewide Clinical Infection Network during the pandemic.

Emily Ragus is an Emergency Nurse who worked at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital for 15 years and with LifeFlight Australia as a Retrieval Nurse before moving to New York City to study a Diploma of International Humanitarian Assistance at Fordham University.

Emily is currently deployed to South East Asia as a Health Delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross. Last year she was awarded the prestigious Sir John Monash Scholarship to study gender-based violence during humanitarian disasters.

Professor John Fraser is an intensive care specialist at the Critical Care Research Group at the Prince Charles Hospital and Director of Intensive Care at St Andrew's War Memorial Hospital in Brisbane. During COVID-19, John led The COVID Consortium to support intensivists across the world responding to the pandemic. The consortium grew to a group of ICU specialists from 54 countries and almost 400 hospitals.

Dr Mark Little recently returned from deployment to Papua New Guinea where he led an Australian Medical Assistance Team (AUSMAT) to assist with the country's COVID-19 health response. An emergency physician at Cairns Hospital, Mark spoke with he Queensland Clinical Senate about his experience in PNG during the pandemic and how he adjusts after deployments to humanitarian disasters in our region. We spoke with Mark via phone.

This NAIDOC Week, we speak with Haylene Grogan about the highlights of her first 12 months as Queensland's first Chief Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Officer, what we can all do to show leadership and embrace the opportunity to drive health equity across the system, and why her dad is her inspiration.

Professor Keith McNeil spoke to the Senate about his role as Queensland Health's first Chief Clinical Information Officer and how that role has changed during the response to COVID-19. And he shares the key areas where digital technologies can continue to support positive changes in how care is delivered after the pandemic.

In this International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, the Queensland Clinical Senate sat down with the state's Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer, Adjunct Professor Shelley Nowlan, the Director of Nursing and Co-Chair of the Division of Surgery at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Sean Birgan, and Townsville University Hospital's Midwifery Unit Manager of the Birth Suite, Sari Holland, to find out what it means to them.

Dr Jillann Farmer hails from Rockhampton in Queensland's north and started her medical career with Queensland Health. She spent the past 7 years in New York as the United Nations' Medical Director. Recently appointed as the Deputy Director-General of Clinical Excellence Queensland, we spoke to Dr Farmer just after she started her new position with Queensland Health - in June 2020 - about her experience with the UN and what has brought her home.

Dr Robyn Littlewood has been at the helm of Health and Wellbeing Queensland since November 2019. Tasked with reducing the state's obesity and chronic disease rates, Robyn spoke with the Queensland Clinical Senate about how she plans to do that and her goal for Queenslanders for the next 10 years.

Roslyn Wharton-Boland has been appointed as the first Aboriginal member of the Queensland Clinical Senate Executive. Roslyn is the Nurse Unit Manager of Community Health at the Woorabinda Multipurpose Health Service in Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service and a lecturer in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health at the University of Queensland. She spoke with the Senate about what it means to be a nurse during the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, her career so far, and why she is so passionate about inspiring other young Aboriginal people to pursue their dreams.