Professor Angela Dawson is a public health social scientist with expertise in maternal and reproductive health service delivery to priority populations in Australia and low and lower middle-income countries. Angela was a NHMRC Translational research fellow examining approaches to counselling women with FGM at the point of care and the recipient of the Sax prize for research impact. She has undertaken research into to the delivery of reproductive health services in humanitarian emergencies, the management and referral of women who have experienced domestic violence as well as access to abortion and emergency contraceptive pills in Australia and internationally. Angela currently leads an NHMRC Ideas grant examining the health of refugees over generations. Angela is the co-chair of the Australasian Sexual and Reproductive Health Alliance (ASRHA), Fellow of the Public Health Association of Australia, a member of the Interagency working group of reproductive health in crisis and an Associate Editor of the journal BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth.

Designation & Affiliations: MB.BS(Hons), Dr PH, MM, FAChSHM, FRACGP; Senior Visiting Fellow, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia; International Sexual Health Consultant, ASHM International 2009-ongoing; International HIV/STI Consultant, UNDP Western Pacific 2019-2022. Achievements: Immediate Past President Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine, RACP 2016-2020; Chair Med Staff Exec Council Sydney Local Health District 2017-18; Vice President, Australasian Society for HIV Medicine 2016-17; Oceania Vice Chair IUSTI Asia-Pacific 2010-2021; Director, Sexual Health, Sydney Local Health District, 1996-2019; Currently working in Australia, PNG, Timor Leste & Pacific Island Countries.

Teodora Elvira Wi, M.D., is currently the Team Lead, Sexually Transmitted Infection in the Department of Global HIV, Hepatitis and STIs Programmes, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva. In WHO HQ, she leads the development of STI guidelines, address STI antimicrobial resistance, and support countries to accelerate STI control. She has more than 25 years of experience in STI programming working directly in more than 25 countries.

Dr Lisa Vallely has more than 20 years’ experience in low-resource settings as a midwife and public health researcher. She has led community- and facility-based research in Papua New Guinea and is a chief investigator of the WANTAIM trial, a cluster randomised crossover trial among 4600 pregnant women and their newborns in PNG to evaluate antenatal point-of-care STI testing and treatment to improve birth outcomes.