Dr. Allison Carter is NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Head of the Sexual Health and Reproductive Equity Research Group at the Kirby Institute. Her research program aims to strengthen responses to gender, social justice, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.

Rebecca leads national engagement, partnerships, and communications for sexual and reproductive health initiatives. She is the Strategic Engagement and Communications Lead at Sexual and Reproductive Health Australia, working across national campaigns, stakeholder engagement, and policy communications to strengthen collaboration and improve equitable access to care.

Sarah is Head of Marketing, Media and Advocacy at Sexual Health Victoria. With more than 20 years of marketing experience and a Master of Marketing, she specialises in behavioural and social marketing, leading integrated health campaigns across digital, social, media, advocacy, and community channels to drive engagement and positive behaviour change.

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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. 

James MacGibbon (he/him) is a social and behavioural scientist at UNSW's Centre for Social Research in Health researching sexual health and wellbeing among gay, bi+ and queer people, and men who have sex with men.

Natasha is a Monash University research assistant, within the Genital Microbiota and Mycoplasma Group at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. She completed her honours degree at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, developing a CRISPR-based diagnostic for Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Her work centers on applying molecular approaches to advance urogenital health.

Hein is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on oropharyngeal gonorrhoea epidemiology, including testing, treatment, and antimicrobial resistance, using ACCESS sentinel surveillance data in collaboration with the Burnet Institute. He has four years of experience as a medical doctor at sexual health clinics in Myanmar.