Kamo started the decentralization of HIV, HCV, and syphilis testing in Armenia at the NCID and managed the IBBS Survey among KPs in 2021. He currently leads the CUTTS project at MdM, making Armenia one of the first countries that started studies on LDSS/N and HCV Models of Care.

Susie McLean is the technical lead on HIV prevention, including harm reduction, at the Global Fund for AIDS. TB and Malaria, providing advice on the Global Fund’s investments in HIV prevention and harm reduction in over 100 countries. Susie has many years of experience in the design and delivery of community-based HIV prevention and harm reduction programs in many countries around the world.

Mat Southwell runs a volunteer peer-to-peer needle and syringe programme with his peers in Bath UK. He delivers community-led technical support to those pioneering harm reduction with people who use and inject drugs around the world through his community company Coact.

Gauri Khanna works at Unitaid as a Monitoring and Evaluation Manager. Gauri discovered her passion for public health during her field survey in India for her doctoral programme where she discovered the plight of women in a village 200km outside the capital city of Delhi with strict cultural and social norms and for whom there were no health care services within driving i.e. tractor distance. Gauri has spent her career in public health working in HIV and co-morbidities, TB, Malaria and most recently in Maternal and Child health. She is a part of the HepC project team at Unitaid.

Annie is a Project Lead with INPUD. She has a PhD in drug policy and has worked with several drug user-led organisations in Australia. She has living experience of drug use and has spent over 3 decades advocating for the health, rights and dignity of people who use drugs globally.