Heather Ellis is the Senior Communications and Project Coordinator for Positive Women Victoria, an HIV advocate, HIV communications specialist, published author and journalist. Diagnosed with HIV in 1995, she is a single mother of three boys. Heather reports on the latest HIV science in ‘plain language’, including breakthroughs supporting the health and wellbeing of people living with HIV. She has developed innovative HIV advocacy and capacity-building projects for women living with HIV and is presently the project lead for the Women and HIV Today audio-visual HIV education tool. Heather also chairs the Melbourne HIV Cure Consortium Community Advisory Board.

Melissa Churchill is a Professor of Neurovirology at RMIT University, Australia. Her work utilises novel techniques to define the size, nature, regulation, and impact of the HIV reservoir in the brain. She has 100+ publications including in leading journals and is a Board Member of the International Society for Neurovirology.

Dr. Morgane Brunton-O'Sullivan is a postdoctoral researcher at Burnet Institute in the Infection, Inflammation and Innate Immunity group. Her current work focuses on understanding the underlying biological mechanisms of inflammation-driven comorbidities in HIV to improve health outcomes and wellbeing.

Mr.Jiajun Sun is a final-year PhD candidate who aims at using artificial intelligence augmented tools to bridge the gaps in clinical practice.

Ashley Hirons is a post-doctoral researcher in the lab of Prof Damian Purcell at the Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne. Her research involves investigating the viral genome and expression, and host immune response, to better understand HTLV-1 pathogenesis and develop therapeutic strategies to reduce disease burden.