Chris Beyrer MD, MPH, is the inaugural Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a Professor of Epidemiology, International Health, Health Behavior and Society, Nursing and Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He serves as Director of the Johns Hopkins Training Program in HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Science and as Founding Director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He is the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and of the University’s Center for Global Health. Dr. Beyrer has extensive experience in conducting international collaborative research and he has spent much of his career focusing on health and human rights. He was President of the International AIDS Society from 2014-16 and was elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine in 2014.

Nittaya Phanuphak, MD, PhD, Institute of HIV Research and Innovation (IHRI). She has deep interest in the use of Key Population-Led Health Services (KPLHS) approach to enhance access to HIV testing, prevention and treatment among key populations (KP). To ensure domestic funding towards KPLHS sustainability, she currently oversees the establishment of a national platform to build capacity, certify and legalize KP lay providers to provide HIV and STI services in Thailand. The Tangerine Clinic in Bangkok is one of the most successful KPLHS examples established in 2015. This trans-led clinic has provided integrated hormone and sexual health services to more than 3,500 transgender clients over a 4-year period. The model is being expanded to community-based organizations, as well as public and private clinics, in a few countries in South-East Asia. Dr Phanuphak has served as the Asia Pacific representative in the IAS Governing Council since 2018.

Kit is the Director of Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and a Professor of Public Health at Monash University