Table 2.

Expert testimony provided to the community juries)

	Expertise	Expert area	Data provided	Events where presented
Talk 1	Molecular biology and diagnostic methods	Molecular Biosciences	• the basic characteristics and biological processes of microbial life and the microbiome • previous and current techniques used to identify and understand microbial processes and host/pathogen interactions • how microbial whole genome sequencing (WGS) works and the nature of the information it can provide	• Western Sydney (Jury#1) • Wollongong (Jury#2) • Tamworth (Jury#3) • Eastern Sydney (Jury#4)
Talk 2	Epidemiology and public health protection	Epidemiology & Communicable Disease Control	• the goals of outbreak investigations, infectious disease surveillance and public health research • why each of these domains of public health practice are important to population health • current systems, protocols, and legal controls employed in outbreak investigations, infectious disease surveillance and public health research in NSW, Australia	• Western Sydney (Jury#1) • Wollongong (Jury#2) • Tamworth (Jury#3) • Eastern Sydney (Jury#4)
Talk 3	Public health microbiology	Microbiology, Health Informatics & Infectious diseases	• the value of microbial genomic data and how WGS can be used to investigate, control and prevent infectious disease outbreaks • the potential public health benefits and ethical risks of using WGS to enhance communicable disease surveillance	• Western Sydney (Jury#1) • Wollongong (Jury#2) • Tamworth (Jury#3) • Eastern Sydney (Jury#4)
Talk 4	Data linkage, data security and communicable disease control practices	Infectious diseases, Data security, Big Data, & Data analytics	• potential benefits and risks of healthcare use of Big Data, data analytics and data linkage technologies • reasons to be concerned about data linkage, data security and data quality in communicable disease control and prevention practices	• Tamworth (Jury#3) • Eastern Sydney (Jury#4)
Talk 5	Bioethics, Public health ethics	Research Ethics & Health technology assessment	• current systems and best practices for health research involving data linkage (de-identification and linkage processes; models for participant consent) • ethical issues in using Big Data and Big Data analytics to enhance infectious disease control and prevention	• Wollongong (Jury#2) • Tamworth (Jury#3) • Eastern Sydney (Jury#4)