Rosanna Peeling is Professor and Chair of Diagnostics Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Director of the International Diagnostic Centre (IDC) and Professor at the Department of Medical Microbiology at the University of Manitoba, Canada. Trained as a medical microbiologist, she previously held positions as the Chief of the Canadian National Laboratory for Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Research Coordinator and Head of Diagnostics Research at the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases in Geneva. Her research focuses on defining unmet diagnostic needs and facilitating test development, evaluation and implementation. She established the IDC to advocate the value of diagnostics, foster innovation, and accelerate access to quality-assured diagnostics. She has served on WHO guideline development groups for HIV, Hepatitis, dengue and as a member of many expert advisory committees, including the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on In Vitro Diagnostics (SAGE IVD), the Global Validation Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV, Syphilis and Hepatitis B, the Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Innovation Fund, the European Horizon 2020 and UK Longitude Prize for AMR, the US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine’s Committee on Public Health Interventions and Countermeasures for Advancing Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Response, the G20 Summit Task Force advisory group and the Africa CDC Laboratory Working Group. Prof Peeling was awarded the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s George MacDonald Medal for outstanding contribution to tropical medicine in 2014 and made an Honorary Fellow of the Society in 2021.

Dr Lorraine Anderson is the Medical Director at Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services where her primary role is in clinical governance for the ACCHO sector in the Kimberley region. Lorraine is proudly linked through her father to the Palawa people of Tasmania. Lorraine gained her primary degree in Medicine at The University of Auckland in New Zealand, followed by post graduate qualifications in Public Health, Child Health, Palliative Medicine and General Practice. She has also been involved in research, medical education and business development in health (private, public and NGO sectors). Lorraine is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practice. She has been working in Aboriginal health and remote rural practice in the Pilbara, Indian Ocean Territories and now the Kimberley for the past 15 years. Lorraine sits on the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Protection AHPPC Subcommittee, CDNA, national and state POCT Meetings and the National RHD expert working group. With a passion for bringing as much investigation, diagnosis and treatment to the patient in rural and remote areas.

Dr Lise Lafferty is a Research Fellow at UNSW Sydney with positions at Centre for Social Research in Health and The Kirby Institute. Her research interests include lived experiences of people living with chronic illnesses (with a focus on people in prison living with HCV) and addressing barriers to care.

Lindi heads research groups both at the Burnet Institute and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. The primary focus of her work is to understand the socio-behavioural and biological risk factors for HIV acquisition and adverse reproductive outcomes in women and to develop tools to reduce this risk.