Jeanne Ellard is a social science researcher with over fifteen years of experience in the fields of blood-borne viruses, drug use and chronic illness. She has worked in both the university and community sector.

Steven is a 3rd year PhD candidate at the Kirby Institute. He is a sociologist who currently works across many aspects of gay men's relationships, in particular serodiscordant couples and HIV prevention.

ASHA PERSSON is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW. She conducts qualitative research on cultural and lived aspects of HIV, with focus on under-researched populations within the epidemic, including heterosexuals, children growing up with HIV, straight-identified MSM, and couples with mixed HIV status.

A/Professor Garrett Prestage has been involved in gay community research and advocacy since the 1970s. He has investigated HIV behavioural risk through multiple studies of gay men’s sexual health, since the 1980s. He has strong relationships with gay community organisations and his work informs policy and programmatic responses.

Phillip Keen is the Coordinator of the NSW HIV Prevention Partnership Project

Johann Kolstee and Stefanie Vaccher are co presenters and are both PhD students at the Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, in the HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program.

Max Niggl has been Living Positive Victoria’s Positive Speakers Bureau since 1999. Max has presented at many conferences on the crucial importance of PLHIV speakers personal narratives challenging stigma and discrimination in the community. He has trained HIV positive speakers in other Australian States, Papua New Guinea and Bali.