Hanna Lianti Afladhia is a 4th year preclinical medical student in University of Indonesia. Hanna is currently doing her research project for her undergraduate thesis, which focusing on the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic on therapy, quality of life, and mental health in patients with lung cancer in Indonesia. She is a research enthusiast–mainly in community-based research, where she is an active member of a scientific research organization in her campus and had win several research paper competitions. She has strong interests in palliative care medicine, which she aimed at enhancing quality of life and relieving sufferings among terminally ill patients, especially cancer patients.

Dr Vanessa Brunelli is a Research Fellow appointed by Queensland University of Technology. Vanessa’s postdoctoral research, a national project investigating the core supportive care components of the specialist lung cancer nurse role that appear most influential on patient experience, is supported by an inaugural Lung Foundation Australia Shine a Light on Lung Cancer Early Career Research Fellowship. Vanessa also holds the position of Nurse Researcher at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Vanessa is the Chair of the Australia and New Zealand Lung Cancer Nurses Forum (ANZ-LCNF), Co-Chair of the ANZ-LCNF Research and Education portfolios, Member on the Scientific Committee, Thoracic Oncology Group of Australasia, and Visiting Scholar of the International Centre for Community Driven Research, Geneva. Vanessa’s 20+ years as an oncology nurse drives her strong research interest in improving the disease experience for people living with lung cancer, particularly through strategic cross-sector initiatives that develop scholarly evidence to inform lung cancer nursing workforce policy and practice.