Dr Kari Vallury is a Senior Research Manager with the AIHW where she is working with the Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit to develop Australia's first national SRH Monitoring Framework and Data Strategy. Kari has over 14 years’ experience working on sexual and reproductive health and rights research, evaluation and policy across community, academic and multilateral organisations. Her research focuses on abortion stigma, evaluation of abortion stigma interventions, and reproductive coercion and abuse.

Deanna is the Head of the Sexual and Reproductive Health Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. She has been with the AIHW for nearly 20 years, and has a Bachelor’s Degree with Honours in Public Health.

Professor James Ward is a Pitjantjatjara and Narungga man, an infectious diseases epidemiologist and a national leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research. He is currently the Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at The University of Queensland. Holding various roles over the last 25 years in Aboriginal public health policy for both government and non-government organisations, in urban regional and remote communities he has built a national program of research in the epidemiology and prevention of infectious diseases, with a particular focus on STIs, HIV and viral hepatitis in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Erin McBride is a Sexual Health Nurse and Public Health Officer based in Gimuy (Cairns), Queensland. Committed to equity and culturally safe care, Erin works alongside consumers to translate lived experiences into meaningful improvements in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) service delivery. Advocate, activist, and innovator, Erin divides her time between Queensland Health and True Relationships and Reproductive Health. She serves as the Clinical Lead for the Pregnancy Options and Culture project, co-chairs the Queensland Termination of Pregnancy Working Group and leads several initiatives at True, including the Menopause Network and the Under 25 STI Project.

Dr Skye McGregor is an epidemiologist whose work focuses on surveillance and prevention of sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses. She leads production of the national sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses annual surveillance reports for Australia. These reports provide a comprehensive analysis of HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia. Over the past 10 years Skye has also been involved in a number of important research projects at the Kirby Institute, including a cluster randomised trial of best practice STI care in remote Aboriginal communities, a community-based HIV knowledge and attitudes survey in culturally and linguistically diverse groups, a government-funded evaluation of the Australian HPV vaccination program, and a World Health Organization funded review of the global epidemiology and diseases associations of HTLV-1.