Deborah is Deputy Director of the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory at the Doherty Institute. She is a graduate of the University of Glasgow Medical School, a member of the Royal College of Physicians and a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists. She holds a PhD from the University of Auckland, and is an NHMRC Early Career Fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Melbourne. Her research focus is on the application of microbial genomics to public health, with a particular focus on antimicrobial-resistant organisms.

Dr Ishikawa is a coordinator of HIV/hepatitis/STI unit, WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific. Her responsibilities include provision of coordination and technical support to countries on development of national strategies and implementation of WHO recommendations on HIV, viral hepatitis and STI and elimination of mother-to-child transmission.

Kane Race is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. His work has explored embodied engagements with medicine across various different contexts and cultures of consumption: HIV; sexual practice; drug use (both licit and illicit), exercise, and social media/digital culture. He is the author of Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs (Duke University Press, 2009); Plastic Water: the social and material life of bottled water (with G. Hawkins & E. Potter, MIT Press, 2015) and The Gay Science: Intimate experiments with the problem of HIV (Routledge, 2018)