Dr Mihaela Ivan MD MSc, FAFPHM Dr Mihaela Ivan is a Senior Medical Advisor with the Department of Health, Victoria. Dr Ivan is a public health physician and medical epidemiologist with extensive experience in communicable disease prevention and control and plays a leading role in BBV/STI public health response.

Laura Matthews is an Honours student at the University of Melbourne School of Population and Global Health under the supervision of Dr Lenka Vodstrcil and Professor Catriona Bradshaw. She works as a Research Assistant in genital microbiome and Mycoplasma genitalium studies at Monash University and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre.

Dr Kay Htaik is a sexual health physician at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and a PhD candidate at Monash University.

Dr Vodstrcil is a Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Head of the Genital Microbiota and Mycoplasma Group at Monash University and MSHC. Dr Vodstrcil’s translational research program aims to improve treatment and control of STIs, and management of bacterial vaginosis to restore an optimal vaginal microbiota associated with reproductive health.

Sarah is a sexual health and infectious diseases trainee working in Fremantle, WA. At the end of her ID training and the start of her sexual health training journey, she is particularly enthusiastic about the intersection of the two specialties - diagnosis, microbiology, and optimal treatment of STIs.