Dr Yang is the director of STI Dept of Dermatology Hospital of SMU. He has over 30 years of experience working in the field of sexual health and has been involved in the development of China's STI guidelines. His recent research includes syphilis vaccine development and STI in MSM population.

Professor Catriona Bradshaw is a clinician researcher and Head of Research Translation and Mentorship and The Genital Microbiota and Mycoplasma Group at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Central Clinical School, Monash University and Alfred Hospital. Her programme focuses on translational research to improve treatment & control of Mycoplasma genitalium.

Dr. Muzny is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her clinical and research interests focus on HIV/STIs in women, specifically vaginal infections. She is Medical Director of the UAB Vaginitis Clinic and Chair of the UAB Institutional Review Board.

Dr Janet Wilson specialises in STIs at Leeds, UK.  Her clinical and research interests are the application and cost-effectiveness of diagnostic tests for chlamydia and gonorrhoea, managing recurrent vaginal infections and infections in pregnancy. An IUSTI World Executive Committee Member since 2007, she is currently the IUSTI Past President.