Dr Belinda Hengel is an early career researcher at the Kirby Institute UNSW. Her focus is on reducing the impact of infectious diseases in populations at risk. Belinda has experience in public health interventions, including molecular point-of-care testing in remote communities and optimizing health service delivery.

Medical graduation (2009), medical residency in Family and Community Medicine (2013), master's degree in Public Health (2018), and an ongoing Infectious Disease PhD. Worked in Primary Health Care and since 2019, acting as technical consultant in the Department of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, and STIs at Ministry of Health of Brazil.

Nicola Low is an epidemiologist and public health specialist. Her research includes evaluation of screening interventions to prevent bacterial STIs and their complications, estimation of the burden of STIs, STIs in pregnancy, and diagnostics for antimicrobial-resistant STIs

Lotte Werner graduated with a master’s degree in Epidemiology from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. After joining the Public Health Service of Amsterdam for an internship as part of her master’s, she began her career as a junior researcher in the field of STIs.

Laith Abu-Raddad is a Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar of Cornell University. He has worked on COVID-19, HIV and other STIs, hepatitis C virus, diabetes, and SARS. He has led multiple high-impact studies published in journals including NEJM, Science, Lancet journals, JAMA, among others.

Nicola Low is an infectious disease epidemiologist with a background in genitourinary medicine and public health. Her main research interests are in the evaluation of screening interventions for the prevention of bacterial STIs, estimation of the burden of STIs and diagnostics for antimicrobial-resistant STIs

Sara Bell is a second-year Ph.D. student at The University of Queensland's Centre for Clinical Research. Her research focuses on the utility of molecular diagnostics and genomics to strengthen clinical management, public health programs, and surveillance of sexually transmissible infections in Australia.