Dr. Jintanat Ananworanich is Associate Director of Therapeutics Research at the U.S. Military HIV Research Program in Maryland, USA, and co-Director of the SEARCH unit at the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. She is Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Amsterdam and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

Dave O'Connor is a UW Medical Foundation Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His laboratory studies the interplay of RNA virus pathogenesis, cellular immunity, and host genomics. He is currently a Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where he is on sabbatical at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity along with his wife and colleague Prof. Shelby O'Connor and their 10 year old son Eli."

Dr Chris Lemoh is an Infectious Diseases and General Physician who specialises in the health of people from refugee and migrant communities. His PhD thesis was on HIV in African communities in Victoria.

As Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific, Eamonn Murphy supports countries across the region in achieving the goals outlined in the 2016 United Nations Political Declaration on Ending AIDS. He leads and facilitates a joint United Nations response to support countries and their HIV programmes, which includes strengthening the links between governments, civil society, the United Nations system and development partners. Mr Murphy was previously the UNAIDS Country Director in Myanmar, where he supported Myanmar’s significant scale-up of services and helped to create an enabling environment and overcome legislative obstacles. Prior to that, he served in Viet Nam as UNAIDS Country Director, where he was honoured with the Order of Friendship by the President in 2010, UNAIDS headquarters as Director of Governance, United Nations System and Donor Relations, and as the UNAIDS Country Coordinator in Myanmar. Before joining the United Nations, Mr Murphy held a number of senior positions with the Australian Government, including Director for Health Sectors with AusAID in the Foreign Ministry, as well as Assistant Secretary for Communicable Diseases and Environmental Health and Director of the National AIDS Programme for the Commonwealth Health Department.