Dr Kathy Jackson is the Principal Scientist at VIDRL, at the Doherty Institute. She has extensive experience with diagnosis of hepatitis viruses and is Director of a WHO Regional Reference Laboratory for Hepatitis B/D in the Western Pacific Region. Kathy has a particular interest in use of point of care tests and simplifying testing for viral hepatitis.

Dr. Feld trained in GI and Hepatology at the University of Toronto and did post-doctoral training in the Liver Diseases Branch at the National Institutes of Health in laboratory and clinical research in viral hepatitis. After completing a Masters in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, he returned to Toronto. He is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and holds the R. Phelan Chair in Translational Liver Research as a clinician-scientist at the Toronto Centre for Liver Disease in the Toronto General Hospital where he leads a large clinical and translational research program focused primarily on viral hepatitis and its complications.

Assoc Prof Jessica Howell MBBS(Hons) FRACP PhD MSc (Epi) PGDip PH is a gastroenterologist and senior research fellow in the Department of Gastroenterology, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne/ University of Melbourne and leads the Hepatitis B research group within the Disease Elimination program at Burnet Institute.

Mark Stoove is head of the Public Health Discipline at the Burnet Institute and leads research groups in HIV Prevention and Justice Health. He is an infectious diseases and behavioural epidemiologist and implementation scientist and has researched the transmission and prevention blood borne virus and sexually transmitted infection for over 20 years.