Associate Professor Applegate is a diagnostic researcher, lead of the Diagnostics Innovation Group and co-lead of RAPID 2.0, a Centre for Research Excellence for the scale up of point-of-care testing for infectious diseases at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. Tanya has over 25 years of experience in regulatory, hospital, industry, laboratory and academic environments, and her research focuses on equitable access to quality, simplified infectious disease diagnostics for people who are marginalised or living in remote or resource limited settings.

Marcus Chen is Professor at the School of Translational Medicine, Monash University, and a sexual health physician at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health. He is NHMRC Leadership Fellow and currently conducting research focused on syphilis. He established the Global Syphilis Research Alliance which is undertaking the SOS Global Study which aims to improve our understanding of syphilis transmission.

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.