Professor Deborah Williamson is a Clinical and Public Health Microbiologist, Professor / Director of Microbiology at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and the Doherty Institute, Deputy Director of the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory, and a Dame Kate Campbell Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. She is an NHMRC Investigator Grant recipient, received a L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Fellowship in 2017 and was awarded the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Frank Fenner Award in 2020.

Director of the global WHO Collaborating Centre for STIs, Örebro, Sweden. Professor at Örebro University, Sweden and Honorary Professor at University College London, UK. Main research: especially N. gonorrhoeae but also, e.g., C. trachomatis, M. genitalium, syphilis. >470 PubMed-indexed international publications and numerous international guidelines and scientific chapters.

Dr Willa Huston is Associate Dean Teaching and Learning and research group leader at the Faculty of Science, UTS. Her research is on molecular microbiology of the pathogen Chlamydia, the microbiome, and immune responses. She is interested how STI can progress into sequelae such as infertility and PID in women.

Associate Professor David Whiley is a principal research fellow at UQCCR, The University of Queensland and research scientist at Pathology Queensland. Antibiotic-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae is a particular research interest of his, including enhancing gonorrhoea antimicrobial resistance surveillance and treatment.