Dheeraj Nurani Venkatachalam is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne with a background in microbiology. His work focuses on diagnostics for sexually transmitted infections, including development of CRISPR-based point-of-care tests for rapid, accurate detection and improving clinical management of genital ulcerative diseases.

Jack is a sexual health registrar, originally from the UK, who has been practising in Australia since 2025.

Kate Maddaford is a research nurse co-ordinator with a Master of Public Health at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. Kate co-ordinates multiple projects involving gonorrhoea and HPV, with a specific focus on novel interventions for gonorrhoea prevention.

Ryan is a Sexual Health Medicine Advanced Trainee working in Naarm at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. He is an HIV and Hepatitis B s100 prescriber with a keen interest in all things sexual health, HIV, research and education.

Lenka is a Senior Research Fellow at MSHC, Monash University. As Deputy Head and lead epidemiologist in the Genital Microbiota and Mycoplasma group, she integrates epidemiological, microbiological and clinical research to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes at the individual and population level, with impacts on guidelines and clinical practice.

Dr Kay Htaik is a sexual health physician at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and a PhD candidate. Her research focuses on improving diagnosis, management and cure of Mycoplasma genitalium.

Ella is a PhD student at the Frazer Institute, the University of Queensland. For the past two years as an honours student, then research assistant, she has investigated flow cytometry and RNA sequencing as paths towards developing novel viability diagnostics under the guidance of Drs Emma Sweeney and Emily Bryan.