Professor Catriona Bradshaw is a clinician researcher and Head of Research Translation and Mentorship and The Genital Microbiota and Mycoplasma Group at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Central Clinical School, Monash University and Alfred Hospital. Her programme focuses on translational research to improve treatment & control of M.genitalium and bacterial vaginosis, and the genital microbiota.

Dr Terryann Clark PhD, MPH, RN (Ngāpuhi) is part-time Associate Professor at the School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, and part-time public health promotion advocate as the Child and Youth Friendly Cities coordinator for Whangarei City. Terryann led the Youth’12 national youth health and wellbeing survey, is co-lead of the Youth’19 Rangatahi Smart Survey and has been a founding member of the Adolescent Health Research Group since 1998. She was previously a sexual health nurse, sexual health advisor and helped establish the Auckland Peer Sexuality Support Programme. She has worked extensively as an Adolescent Nurse Specialist in various roles and as an academic. She has written over 80 publications, 25 reports and has led several national research projects related to youth health, and Māori health. Her major research interests are: youth health, indigenous health, mental health, sexual health, advocacy, and healthy youth development with a strong focus on addressing inequity for Māori whanau.

Lisa McDaid is Professor of Social Science and Health at The University of Queensland, where she leads on health research at the Institute for Social Science Research. She retains a Professorship at the University of Glasgow and is also an Associate Director of the Centre for Research on Families and Relationships, a consortium research centre based at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Lisa has expertise in intervention development and evaluation, health improvement research, and qualitative methods. Her research has explored sexual health inequalities among young people, LGBTQ+ communities, and men and women living in socio-economically deprived areas. Lisa’s most recent research focuses on syndemics - understanding the complex interplay and co-occurrence of sexual, physical and mental health problems and the social contexts that drive these. Most importantly, she is working with communities to understand how to counter syndemics and improve health via assets and strengths-based approaches.