Dr Hengel is an early career researcher based with the Surveillance, Evaluation and Research Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney who has been working alongside Aboriginal communities for around 15 years, primarily focused on reducing STIs and improving reproductive and pregnancy outcomes for women.

Dr Janet Towns is a sexual health and forensic physician who has just submitted her Monash University PhD thesis: Modern Ethical Syphilology, which focussed on syphilis transmission. She works at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, where she is known as the "Syphilis Queen". She is currently enjoying not doing a PhD.