Louisa Degenhardt is a UNSW Scientia Professor, NHMRC Senior Principal Research Fellow and Deputy Director at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) at UNSW. Louisa conducts diverse epidemiological studies including data linkage studies focusing upon people with extra-medical or dependent opioid use or chronic pain, analysis of large-scale community and clinical surveys, and cohorts of young people. She is currently CI on a NHMRC Program Grant focussed on drug dependence and viral hepatitis in people who use drugs.

Professor Margaret Hellard AM is a Deputy Director at the Burnet Institute. Margaret’s principal research interests are in preventing the transmission and improving the management of blood borne viruses, with the ultimate aim to end the AIDS epidemic and eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat.

Dr. Norah Palmateer joined Glasgow Caledonian University as a Senior Research Fellow in 2016. Previously, she worked at Health Protection Scotland, principally on the epidemiology of HCV among people who inject drugs. She is an author of over 30 academic papers related to injecting drug use and blood-borne viruses.

George Kamkamidze is a medical doctor practicing in immunology and infectious diseases. He received PhD in immunology and was post-doctoral fellow in molecular virology at Wadsworth center, NY. His research is mostly focused on viral hepatitis and HIV in different risk groups, including PWID. Dr. Kamkamidze is professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at Georgian-American University and director of clinic NeoLab, providing HCV treatment services, including to PWID.

Sigurdur Olafsson is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Iceland Faculty of Medicine and Director of Hepatology in the Division of Gastroenterology, Landspitali – The National University Hospital of Iceland. Dr. Olafsson currently leads a nationwide hepatitis C treatment program in Iceland.

Dr Kari Lancaster is a Senior Research Fellow and Scientia Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW, and an Honorary Associate Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Kari’s research concentrates on ‘evidence-making’ practices and critical approaches to implementation science in health.