Mr Louis Macgregor is a PhD student under Prof Peter Vickerman, focusing on epidemiology of HIV and HCV in the MSM community.

Dr Phillip Read is the director of the Kirketon Road Centre, a primary health care facility in Sydney involved in the prevention treatment and care of hepatitis C among people who inject drugs, sex workers and at-risk young people.

Ayorinde Soipe holds a master’s degree in Epidemiology from Brown University School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island. He had his medical education in Lagos State University College of Medicine, Nigeria. He has been working on pharmacotherapy, substance use, and infectious disease research projects over the years, and he is here to present a recent work from the Rhode Island Prescription Drug Study cohort.

Prof. Grebely's training and research is based in the field of epidemiology, with a specific focus on clinical epidemiology. Jason has a BSc in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and a PhD in Pharmacology and Therapeutics, both from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, under the supervision of Gregory Dore, where he now remains as a Senior Lecturer.

Dr. Solomon is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Chairman of the YR Gaitonde Centre for AIDS Research and Education. He is a clinician and epidemiologist whose work is focused on improving access to HIV and HCV care among people who inject drugs.