Professor Michael Kidd AM is Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Principal Medical Advisor with the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care, where he is leading Australia’s national primary care response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Nick Medland is a clinical epidemiologist researching the tracking the community impact of clinical interventions on infectious diseases transmission, including HIV and sexually transmitted infection. He is a consultant physician in HIV and sexual health. He is the recipient of an Australian Government NHMRC early career research fellowship with the Surveillance, Evaluation and Research Program at the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW.

Darryl O’Donnell is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations. AFAO leads Australia’s national effort to end HIV transmission and strengthens civil society responses to HIV in Asia and the Pacific. He has 30 years’ experience working in HIV community, research and public sector roles. He holds an Adjunct appointment as Professor at the University of NSW.

Scott is currently serving as Board Director and President of the National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA.org.au) and Director of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO.org.au). Former journalist. Former Brand Manager. Skilled in policy, strategy, public relations, media, marketing and finance. Committed to accountable governance, policy that works, intelligent advocacy, corporate-social responsibility and community.

Marsha Rosengarten is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of ‘HIV Interventions: Biomedicine and the Traffic in Information and Flesh,’ co-author with Mike Michael of ‘Innovation and Biomedicine: Ethics, Evidence and Expectation in HIV’ and co-editor with Alex Wilkie and Martin Savransky of ‘Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures’

Dr. Aadia Rana is an Infectious Diseases physician and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama-Birmingham Heersink School of Medicine, and co-director of the UAB Center for AIDS Research Ending HIV in Alabama Scientific Working Group. Her research focuses on disparities in access and adherence to medical treatment among people with HIV, outcomes of women with HIV, and implementation of combination biomedical/behavioral interventions to improve treatment adherence.

Kane Race (BA (Hons), LLB, PhD, FAHA) is Professor of Gender & Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. He was diagnosed HIV positive in 1996. He began to investigate people’s experiences with HAART at the National Centre in HIV Social Research in 1997. Among his books are Pleasure Consuming Medicine: the queer politics of drugs (2009) and The Gay Science: intimate experiments with the problem of HIV (2018).