Bridget is a survey researcher. After spending 15 years designing social surveys and analysing data at Statistics New Zealand, Bridget joined the Ministry of Health in 2012. Bridget leads the dissemination of the Sexual and Reproductive Health statistics from the 2014/15 Health Survey.

Associate Professor Seib is a Group Leader at the Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University (Gold Coast). Her research is currently focused on understanding the processes involved in host colonisation and disease, with the aim to identify therapeutic targets of bacterial pathogens including Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

Asha Persson is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney. She does qualitative research on cultural and lived aspects of HIV, focusing on previously hidden or under-researched populations within the Australian epidemic, including heterosexuals, perinatally-infected children, straight-identified MSM, and HIV serodiscordant couples.