Farzaneh Vakili is a PhD student in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Montreal under the supervision of Dr. Julie Bruneau and Dr. Sarah Larney. Her research broadly concentrates on the social determinants of health among people who inject drugs and blood-borne viral infections among this population.

PhD on time series with work experience on environmental health, Campylobacter and weather, vaccine effectiveness and impact against invasive pneumococcal disease and prevalence estimation of opiate and crack cocaine use and injecting.

Sharon Hutchinson is a Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health at Glasgow Caledonian University and Honorary Consultant with Public Health Scotland. Her research focusses on the evaluation of interventions to prevent blood-borne viruses and related harms among people who inject drugs. Her work has particularly helped to inform and evaluate Scotland’s elimination strategy on Hepatitis C. With UK partners, she co-led the NIHR research project “Evaluating the Population Impact of hepatitis C direct-acting antiviral Treatment as prevention for People who inject drugs” (EPIToPe).

Associate Professor Behzad Hajarizadeh is a clinical epidemiologist in the Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales. His main areas of research include epidemiology and clinical management of viral hepatitis, particularly in prison, and among people who inject drugs.

Sarah Larney is a Professor at the Burnet Institute, Melbourne, Australia. She primarily works on the epidemiology and prevention of drug-related harms including overdose, hepatitis C and HIV, but is also engaged with critical social sciences scholarship aiming to problematise current epidemiological methods.

I graduated from Yerevan State Medical University in 1988. I have about 35 years of medical work experience now. For the last 15 years, I have been working at the Penitentiary Medical Centre as an Infectious Diseases Doctor. Since 2019, I have been the Head of the Infectious Diseases Department.

Sofia Bartlett obtained a PhD from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and completed postdoctoral training at the University of British Columbia, gaining multidisciplinary expertise spanning basic science, infectious disease epidemiology, and public health practice. Her work prioritizes community-based and participatory research approaches that maximize the potential for policy and program impact, while advancing the rights and dignity of people impacted by sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections.