Rachel is a Professor in Child and Adolescent Health, Sydney University and Adolescent Physician at the Children’s Hospital Westmead. She has spent much of the last 20 years working as a clinician and researcher in adolescent sexual and reproductive health, spanning medical, public health, psychosocial and ethical aspects of SRH in young people. Findings from her research have been translated into policy that has had a global impact on the health of young women including marginalised young people. One main area of research is adolescent risk-taking behaviour, pregnancy and parenting and sexuality. The other main stream of work concerns the effectiveness of HPV vaccines and school vaccination programs.

Dr Graham Brown is a senior research fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University and he primarily works with community based organisations focusing on building evidence for community driven responses to BBV and STI.

Angela heads the Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit at the PNG Institute of Medical Research and its a Senior Research Fellow at the Kirby Institute, UNSW. She has worked in PNG for 16 years and lived there permanently for the last 11.

Lea Narciso is the Senior Project Officer, STIs/HIV, Communicable Disease Control Branch, SA Health. In Canada, Lea worked as a health researcher in provincial and national research institutes and non-government organisations including Ontario AIDS Network, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, University of Toronto and University of Ottawa. Lea holds a Bachelor of Social Work and a Master of Health Science, Public Health with a focus on HIV and maternal and child health. Katherine Pontifex started her career as a clinician in primary health care and disability settings, in rural and metropolitan Australia and the United Kingdom. She worked for the Australian Government Department of Health for 15 years in the design, commissioning and implementation of primary health care policy and programs. She completed a Graduate Diploma in Public Health and pursued her area of interest by completing a Master of Evaluation. Katherine is now the Principal Evaluation Coordinator, Prevention and Population Health Branch, SA Health.

Rebecca Guy is an Associate Professor and Program Head with the Surveillance Evaluation and Research Program in the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW. She is an epidemiologist with expertise in surveillance and public health interventions related to HIV and sexually transmissible infections . Her research focuses on reducing the impact of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in vulnerable populations, including implementation and evaluation of testing, point-of-care testing and treatment interventions to prevent transmission of HIV and STIs in a range of settings.