Peter Vickerman is a Professor in infectious disease modelling. His research focuses on using modelling and epidemiological analyses to assess the transmission of infectious diseases and impact/cost-effectiveness of prevention measures amongst different populations, especially among groups particularly vulnerable to HIV and HCV in low- and middle-income countries.

Carol El-Hayek is an epidemiologist and informatician with over a decade's experience managing BBV/STI surveillance systems and evaluating health promotion programs. Carol has recently completed a PhD exploring the use of machine learning to enhance the methods used to analyze clinical data for surveillance purposes.

Ravi Goyal, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego. Dr. Goyal’s research interests lie at the intersection of statistics, network science, and public health. His research contributions have been the development of statistical methods and their application to design and assess the impact of public health interventions.

Martin Kåberg (MK) is a Senior Consultant of Psychiatry/Addiction Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Stockholm Center for Dependency Disorders. MK is the medical supervisor for the Stockholm Needle and Syringe Programs. MK is a senior researcher at Karolinska Instititutet, Department of Global Public Health, Stockholm, Sweden.

Dr. Akiyama is a clinician-investigator at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. In addition to providing care to people with HCV, HIV, and substance use disorders, Dr. Akiyama conducts research on models of care in resource limited settings with an emphasis on people who use drugs and the criminal legal system.

I am an infectious disease mathematical modeller interested in global health, especially in low- and middle-income countries. My recent modelling work has focussed on developing dynamic transmission models to evaluate the impact and cost-effectiveness of interventions for HCV and HIV epidemics in the general population and people who inject drugs.

Sarah Sousa Tran is a Clinical Research Analyst at the Viral Hepatitis Care Network at University Health Network’s Toronto Centre for Liver Disease in Toronto, Canada. She has worked on several hepatitis C research studies, as well as outreach initiatives, testing community members for HCV through POC testing.

Martha Papadopoulou is a nurse and a PhD candidate at the Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her main research focuses on populations at risk for HCV and HIV/AIDS. She served as the head nurse of a study, which explored the feasibility and impact of a public health system Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) intervention in the recently emerging HIV epidemic in Athens