Dr. Iskandar Azwa is an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases and the Clinical Lead for the HIV service in the Infectious Diseases Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya, Kuala Lumpur. He is also the Director of the Centre of Excellence for Research in Infectious Diseases & AIDS (CERIA), Faculty of Medicine, University Malaya. His research interests include HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation research, HIV resistance and evaluation of novel HIV treatment strategies in resource-limited settings. He is the site Principal Investigator (PI) for several international collaborative HIV clinical trials that have shaped HIV guidelines both locally and globally. Much of his recent work has focused on increasing community access to HIV prevention biomedical interventions and implementation differentiated service delivery models of HIV care and prevention, including m-health and pharmacy-led service delivery models. He has been a member of several WHO guidelines development groups on HIV treatment and prevention since 2020.

Michelle Tobin is an Aboriginal woman of the Yorta Yorta Nation and a descendant of the Stolen Generation. She is a mother to two daughters and 6 grandchildren and lives on the Central Coast NSW with her partner of 20 years. She has lived with HIV for over 36 years, lost her husband to HIV in 1992 and experienced many levels of stigma and discrimination. This drove Michelle to become a passionate, vocal advocate for HIV issues. Michelle worked with the HIV Speakers Bureau for many years and served on several state-and national-level HIV boards and committees. She sits on the Board of the Anwernekenhe National HIV Alliance. (The ANA) as the representative living with HIV and is a community member and Convener of the Positive Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Network (PATSIN). Michelle is a director on the board of NAPWHA and a member of the National Association of People with HIV Australia’s Femme Fatales network and one of two women across Australia who advocate for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people living with HIV. She represents the positive voice of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, especially women, on several advisory committees. Recently completed a Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Health Promotion -Social Emotional Wellbeing at Sydney University and worked with Positive Life NSW in developing The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Living With or at Risk of HIV Health Co-Designed Project is a needs assessment of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) community of NSW, regarding and with consideration to: accessing and engaging with services (including health and social determinants of health-related services); accessing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and antiretroviral medication (ART); lifestyle choices, including transience; rates of incarceration/custody; and public health orders.

Dr Geraldine Fela is an award-winning historian and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University. Her research traverses histories of gender and sexuality, labour, social movements and medicine.

A candid, forward-looking panel reimagining contraceptive counselling at the time of abortion care through a reproductive justice lens. This panel brings together clinical and lived experience perspectives to consider what it looks like to centre agency at every step of the consultation

Carrie (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne exploring person-centred abortion care for the Australian context. Her work takes a reproductive justice approach to understanding the needs, preferences, and values of abortion seekers regarding high quality care and interrogates how power can undermine its provision.

Dr Karen Freilich (she/her) is a General Practitioner and a Sexual Medicine Specialist at Monash Health's Sexual Medicine & Therapy Clinic. Karen has completed a Masters of Reproductive and Sexual Health Research in London (LSHTM) and completed training through European Society of Sexual Medicine (ESSM) School in Budapest. In 2022, Karen was awarded the RACGP Australian Registrar of the Year Award. Karen was an Academic GP Registrar at Monash University and currently lectures and tutors Sexual Health through University of Melbourne's Medical School.

Hannah Bambra is a writer, abortion peer support and reproductive health advocate.

Sarah Newbold is a counsellor, social worker, consultant, and writer with more than 20 years’ experience. She is passionate about abortion access, reproductive justice, and supporting people to make informed decisions about their bodies, relationships, and futures. Her work spans sexual and reproductive health, trauma and the relational impacts of emerging technologies.

Cath Bateman is the Abortion, Contraception and Sexual Health Nurse Practitioner Candidate at the Latrobe Sexual and Reproductive Health Hub in Gippsland Victoria. Working across three sites Cath provides nurse-led consultations on all things SRH in the primary health environment. Working with a dedicated, if somewhat brown-beaten bunch of fabulous GPs, Cath provides early medical abortion, contraception, STI screening and treatment and much more with a community health approach - meaning that services are exclusively bulk billed because sexual and reproductive health and rights is a community concern as well as an individual need. A dedicated community health comrade, Cath has worked in nursing in community health or community organisations since 2008 when she got her first job with YWCA Victoria during the Victorian Abortion Law Reform process.