Alison Coughlan, BSc (Hons), MPH, is the author of The Health Hazard, a guide for people in the health and social sectors who are running on empty and need to rebuild their energy reserves. A speaker, mentor and facilitator, Alison has more than twenty-five years’ experience in the sectors she writes for, working at state, national and global level with more than seventy-five organisations as a researcher, policy maker, advocate, consultant and board director. The book draws on the lessons she learnt along the way, and on her view that burning out should never be an acceptable cost of caring work. Alison wrote alongside other authors in the Expert Author Community.