Norah Palmateer is a Reader in Public Health at Glasgow Caledonian University and holds an honorary appointment with Public Health Scotland. Her research relates primarily to the epidemiology and prevention of blood-borne viruses and other infections associated with injecting drug use.

I am a first-year epidemiology student in the joint doctoral program at UC San Diego and San Diego State University. My research interests include infectious disease and health economic modeling.

Dr Joanne Carson is cross-disciplinary infectious disease and data science researcher interested in precision medicine, big data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI).

Shane is a PhD candidate at the Kirby Institute, examining viral hepatitis elimination strategies and treatment outcomes through analysis of population-level data. His research aims to monitor progress towards viral hepatitis elimination, particularly among marginalised communities in Australia. Shane is particularly interested in identifying underserved populations to accelerate elimination efforts.

Olga Anagnostou, MD,MPH, Organisation Against Drugs (OKANA)

Carla Treloar is Scientia Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW, Sydney Australia. Carla has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers. She is co Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Drug Policy and served as senior editor for qualitative research for Addiction from 2018-2024.

Dr Basoulis has worked as an Infectious Diseases specialist attending physician at Laiko General Hospital for the past 7 years.

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.