Emmanuel Fortier is a psychiatry resident at University of Ottawa and a doctoral candidate at Université de Montréal. His research activities are conducted at the CHUM Research Centre (Montréal) and focus on the epidemiology of drug injecting and HCV. He is supervised by Prof. Julie Bruneau and Prof. Jason Grebely.

Adelina is a PhD candidate studying epidemiology and public health at the University of Montreal. Her research focus is the epidemiology of HCV transmission among people who inject drugs and the impact of prevention strategies in this population group.

Hannah Fraser has been working on dynamic transmission modelling of HCV and HIV among key populations for the past 5 years, particularly focussing on what scale-up of interventions is needed to achieve HCV elimination among PWID.

Medical Doctor with a clinical background in HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis, have more than 10 years of the professional experience in conducting research among key populations, monitoring and evaluation of the public health interventions focused on HIV and viral hepatitis prevention, treatment and care for KP.

Marie Jauffret-Roustide is a Sociologist, Research Fellow at Inserm in France. Her research focuses mainly on harm reduction policies including HCV, migration, and gender issues in drug policies; as well as users' involvement in harm reduction. She has coordinated evaluative intervention studies among vulnerable populations, using a community-based research approach.

Alexandra Almeida holds bachelors and master’s degrees from top universities in Brazil in applied statistics. She recently completed her PhD in Epidemiology and is a PhD student in Substance Use in SDSU. Since 2015 she has worked as a statistician at FIOCRUZ and has taught courses in biostatistics.