Professor Pingyu Zhou is Head of the STD Clinic at Xinhua Hospital, Jiaotong University, and Director of the Shanghai STD Quality Control Center. She specializes in syphilis clinical and basic research, and Neisseria gonorrhoeae antibiotic resistance. Currently, she is Director of IUSTI-AP and a WHO expert on HIV and STIs.

Jason is an academic sexual health specialist and health economist based at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. His research focuses on economic evaluations and strategies to improve access to sexual health services. He is advisor to WHO working towards the elimination of HIV/STIs as a public health threat.

Professor Jane Hocking is an epidemiologist and implementation researcher whose research interests include the epidemiology and control of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sexual health and the implementation and evaluation of primary care interventions.

Associate Professor Laura Tarzia is co-lead of the Sexual and Family Violence (SAFE) research program within the Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne. Her work draws on the voices of victim/survivors to increase understanding about the context and dynamics of sexual and reproductive violence that can be applied in practice to strengthen trauma-and-violence informed responses in health settings.

Dimie Ogoina is a Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases and an infectious diseases physician. He was listed in Nature’s top 10 scientists in 2022 and recognized as one of Time's 100 most influential persons in 2023 for his groundbreaking research on mpox and contributions to health equity.