Nittaya Phanuphak is Executive Director at the Institute of HIV Research and Innovation (IHRI) in Bangkok, Thailand. She has deep interest in Key Population-Led Health Services (KPLHS) which empower lay providers who are members of key population communities to perform HIV/STI testing and dispense PrEP/PEP, ART and STI treatment to their peers. She currently works towards national accreditation and domestic financing systems for lay providers in order to expand KPLHS and ensure its sustainability. Beyond the integrated HIV, STI, and hepatitis services delivered in KPLHS, she strongly advocates for gradual additions of substance use, mental health, stigma and discrimination reduction, and human rights/legal support services into the model. During the last mile to ending HIV in Thailand, she has now focused seriously on the tangible actions to eliminate intersectional and multi-level stigma and discrimination through the use of a country-wide Undetectable equals Untransmittable (U=U) implementation strategies. She has been the International AIDS Society (IAS) Governing Council Representative of Asia and the Pacific Islands since 2018. She is also the Deputy Editor of the Journal of the International AIDS Society (JIAS) and the Joint Editor of Sexual Health.

Dr. Manabe is a Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases within the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of the Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases. She is dedicated to accelerating infectious disease diagnostic development, innovation, and access to increase diagnostic certainty and targeted treatment to improve global health. She also holds joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Departments of International Health and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and is the Associate Director of Global Health Research and Innovation within the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health. Her research has focused on infectious disease diagnostics for STI’s, HIV, TB, and respiratory viruses (COVID-19, influenza) and their impact on patient-centered outcomes. Dr. Manabe is an author of more than 250 peer-reviewed publications. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty in 1999 after completing her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins Hospital. From 2007-2012, she was seconded to the Infectious Diseases Institute where she was the Head of Research and holds an honorary appointment at Makerere University College of Health Sciences.

Angela Kelly-Hanku is Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research and a Scientia associate professor in the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity in Society, Faculty of Medicine at UNSW Sydney, Australia where she leads the Global Health Equity and Justice Research Group. She has a background in the social sciences and public health and works at the intersection between biomedical technologies, culture, sexuality, gender, health and well-being. With colleagues, she has undertaken pioneering qualitative and participatory research in Papua New Guinea on a wide range of sexual, reproductive and maternal health issues and led and supported the implementation and evaluation of a number of timely and innovative and pioneering point-of-care testing programs in the field of HIV, STIs, HPV and TB. Angela is committed to working in a collaborative and empowering way with the communities she serves in her research, most notably young people, pregnant women and girls, people living with HIV, people who sell and exchange sex, sexuality diverse men and transgender people.