Dr Jaelea Skehan OAM (Australia)
Chair
Dr Jaelea Skehan OAM is an internationally respected leader in the prevention of mental ill-health and suicide. She is a psychologist, researcher, facilitator and policy adviser. Jaelea is the Director of Everymind, an Australian-based institute, she holds a conjoint appointment with the College of Health, Medicine and Wellbeing at the University of Newcastle and is an affiliated researcher with the Hunter Medical Research Institute and Manna Institute.
Jaelea has supported the development of government and industry strategies and policies at a state, national and international level. Between 2019 and 2020 she led the National Suicide Prevention Taskforce and engaged across governments to prepare Final Advice for the Australian Prime Minister on Suicide Prevention. In 2020, Jaelea was awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for services to community mental health and wellbeing and in 2014 was announced as one of Australia's 100 Women of Influence.
Jaelea is committed to innovation, harnessing the voice of lived experience and supporting greater uptake of prevention evidence. She enjoys working in partnership with others and developing the next generation of leaders in mental health and suicide prevention. She has been a member of Movember’s Global Men’s Health Advisory Committee since 2019 and was appointed as Chair in 2024.
Professor Matt Englar-Carlson (USA)
Matt Englar-Carlson, PhD is a professor and department chair in counseling and the director of the Center for Boys and Men at California State University, Fullerton. His work focuses on healthy/prosocial forms of masculinities, social justice and diversity issues in psychological training and practice, and psychotherapy with boys and men. As a member of the APA Task Force for Boys in School, he is committed to educating teachers and parents about healthy boyhood.
Matt is the co-creator with of the Positive Psychology Positive Masculinities (PPPM) model- the original framework of positive and healthy masculinities. It adopts a strength-based approach to accentuate healthy masculinities in boys and men in school and community settings. He was a core author of the APA Guidelines for Professional Psychological Practice with Boys and Men. He is the clinical advisor for the men’s mental health app, Mental. As a clinician, he has worked children, adults, and families in school, community, and university mental health settings.
Professor Derek Griffith (USA)
Dr Derek M. Griffith is a Founding Co-Director of the Racial Justice Institute, Founder and Director of the Center for Men’s Health Equity, Member of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Professor of Health Management & Policy and Oncology at Georgetown University. He also serves as the Chair of Global Action on Men’s Health – a global men’s health advocacy organization.
Trained in psychology and public health, Derek’s program of research focuses on developing anti-racism approaches to achieve racial, ethnic, and gender equity in health. His research has explored how notions of manhood, trustworthiness, intersectionality, and individual tailoring can be incorporated into community-based and policy strategies to promote health and well-being. He is a contributor to and editor of three books and the author of over 170 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He has been the principal investigator of research grants from the American Cancer Society, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and several institutes within the National Institutes of Health. Derek serves on the editorial boards of several public health and men's health journals. Recently, he received a citation from the president of the American Psychological Association, “For his extraordinary leadership in addressing the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation and specifically for African American and Latino men”.
Dr Peter Levesque (Canada)
Peter is past President of the Institute for Knowledge Mobilization Ottawa. He holds a PhD in Population Health from the University of Ottawa and has 20 years of experience working with governments, research institutes, and professional associations on issues of knowledge mobilization, including exchange, management, social media, transfer and translation.
Peter’s career has included serving as Deputy-Director of Knowledge Products and Mobilization at the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, as Knowledge Exchange Specialist at the Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and as Chair of KMb at Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation. His early career included success as an entrepreneur and community developer. Peter is an experienced speaker, facilitator, and writer on knowledge mobilization, education, innovation, community and other complex social issues.
Associate Professor Jacqui Macdonald (Australia)
Jacqui Macdonald, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Psychology at Deakin University, Australia. Her research draws on longitudinal studies of development across the lifespan with a particular focus on lifecourse trajectories of boys to fathers. She leads the Lifecourse Sciences Theme within Deakin’s Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED) and the Men and Parenting Pathways (MAPP) longitudinal study that investigates men’s mental health and wellbeing and how it affects and is affected by family life. She leads the Australian Medical Research Future Fund project, 1 in 10 men: Informing prevention of and treatment for paternal mental health problems.
Jacqui is convenor of the Australian Fatherhood Research Consortium, a founding member of the Australian Men and Boys Health Alliance, and a scientific advisor to the Australian Longitudinal Study of Male Health. She is an honorary fellow with both the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne.
Professor Steven Roberts (Australia)
Steven Roberts is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Head of School of Education, Culture and Society, Faculty of Education, Monash University. Steven is a sociologist with research expertise in youth to adulthood transitions and also in change and continuity in contemporary masculinity.
Steven’s research on these themes spans across a range of issues and includes boys and men’s engagement with risky drinking; sexting; emotionality; computer gaming; violence and sexual harassment; domestic labour; compulsory and post-compulsory education; employment; gender transformation programs. Steven is also a Board Director of Respect Victoria.
William Roberts (United Kingdom)
William Roberts is the Chief Executive of the Royal Society for Public Health, the worlds oldest public health body. Previously William has been a senior leader in the National Health Service, UK across roles in public health, commissioning, strategy, transformation and planning. He is a registered nurse who has worked in both hospital and community services, and as a nurse specialist in tuberculosis and HIV.
William is a Non-Executive Director of Housing 21 and a Non- Executive Director of POBL, a Welsh housing and care provider and was previously Deputy Chair at Terrence Higgins Trust. He brings a wealth of experience across public health and inequalities from the healthcare, charity sector, social care, housing, local government and further education.
Travis Garone (Australia)
Movember Board Member
Travis is a Creative and Brand Consultant with over 30 years’ experience and has been named in the Qantas Most Influential Australians List. While being the Co-Founder and Brand Creator of Movember, Travis has also founded a number of highly successful companies, from his global creative agency Urchin, to cult street wear and skate brand Doomsday. Travis has performed many roles across famous brands such as YETI, Tony Hawk, DC, Quiksilver, Roxy, Fosters, CUB, Corona, Carlsberg, Asahi, Kronenbourg 1664, Millers, F1 and the World Surfing Tour. Travis has both a strategic, business and creative mind and has been working on special projects with market leading brands his entire career.
Dr. Rob Moodie, (Australia)
Movember Board Member
Rob trained as a medical doctor, working as a clinician in rural Australia and in Africa before moving into public health, focusing on HIV/AIDS for the Victorian Department of Health, the World Health Organisation, the Burnet Centre and the Joint UN Program on AIDS (UNAIDS). He is currently Professor of Public Health at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health.
Rob has worked for numerous not-for profit organisations including Save the Children Fund and Médecins Sans Frontières. He has a keen interest in the prevention of non-communicable diseases, health promotion and health inequalities. Rob has chaired the National Preventative Health Taskforce and the Federal Minister’s Men’s Health Reference Group — the only Federal body that has ever existed focusing on men’s health.
Dr. Judy Y Chu (United States)
Past Chair
Judy is a Lecturer in Human Biology and Affiliate of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University, where she teaches a course on Boys' Psychosocial Development. Judy’s research focuses on boys’ gender socialization during early childhood and adolescence, highlights boys’ relational strengths, and aims to support boys’ healthy resistance against social norms that hinder their ability to be fully present and genuinely engaged in their relationships. Judy is the author of When Boys Become Boys: Development, Relationships, and Masculinity (NYU Press, 2014) and co-editor of Adolescent Boys: Exploring Diverse Cultures of Boyhood (NYU Press, 2004). She appeared in and developed curricula for The Representation Project’s film, The Mask You Live In. She is an editorial board member of Men and Masculinities, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, and Boyhood Studies.
