Suzanne is a social change practitioner, experienced in co-designing health services that improve equity and accessibility. Founder of Inospire Limited and delivery partner of Protected&Proud, a contraception platform in Aotearoa NZ. With a background in SRH campaigns, she champions participatory design to reshape healthcare, empowering wāhine/women+ and underserved communities.

Dr Gizat Kassie is a Senior Research Fellow at SAHMRI Women and Kids. He is a pharmacist by training with a PhD in quality use of medicines. Gizat is passionate about addressing challenges related to medication use and health service utilisation in vulnerable populations including women, children, and older adults.

Shelly Makleff (she/her) is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health. Her research focuses on reducing abortion stigma in the health system to improve quality of care and accessibility.

Dr Michelle King-Okoye is an Academic Researcher at Rosemary Bryant Research AO Centre, University of South Australia. She has conducted research with culturally and linguistically diverse communities CALD) across various countries examining pathways to care for men and their partners impacted by prostate cancer.

Mariana is a Public Health Physician working for SHQ, an NGO offering clinical services, education, health promotion and advocacy in WA. Mariana has worked in remote WA, interstate and overseas on a range of public health programs aiming to improve equitable access to sexual and reproductive health to priority populations.

Dr Gemma Crawford has more than 20 years of experience in the practice, advocacy, leadership, policy, teaching and research of health promotion and public health. She is also on the management team for the Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Applied Research and Evaluation Network (SiREN)

Michael is undertaking a PhD at the Burnet Institute, with a focus on STI epidemiology and prevention among gay and bisexual men in the era of PrEP. Michael's research involves using sentinel surveillance data to monitor epidemiological trends in HIV and STIs and to evaluate large-scale public health interventions.