Wayne is the Scientific and Business Manager at NRL. As a medical scientist, he is an expert in the standardisation, monitoring and control of infectious disease testing, consulting for World Health Organization, IAEC, European Medicines Agency and Standards Australia.

Wayne is the Scientific and Business Manager at NRL. As a medical scientist, he is an expert in the standardisation, monitoring and control of infectious disease testing, consulting for World Health Organization, IAEC, European Medicines Agency and Standards Australia.

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.

Anne-Maree McDougall is a Lead Accreditation Specialist with (NATA) National Association of Testing Authorities, Australia. Anne-Maree has extensive experience in the accreditation of point of care facilities. Her background, as a medical scientist, prior to joining NATA in 2013, was in both laboratory testing and management roles. These roles involved participation in the acquiring and maintaining of accreditation and certification for teaching hospital laboratories.

Darryl O’Donnell is the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations. AFAO leads Australia’s national effort to end HIV transmission and strengthens civil society responses to HIV in Asia and the Pacific. He has 30 years’ experience working in HIV community, research and public sector roles. He holds an Adjunct appointment as Professor at the University of NSW.

Dr Joss O’Loan is a General Practitioner at Medeco Inala which was awarded RACGP General Practice of the Year 2018. He is also the co-founder and Director of the not for profit organisation, Kombi Clinic, which is a Hepatitis C outreach model of care delivered from 1975 Yellow Kombi Van.

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.

Dean Whiting joined Pathology Technology in March 2019. He brings his skills and experience from more than 35 years in the Pathology field. Dean is a trained Clinical Biochemist, working for 15 years in large Pathology laboratories. For the past 20 years Dean has worked in almost all Pathology disciplines and almost all roles, from Technical Specialist to General Manager. Dean is passionate about communicating the benefits IVD technology delivers to patients, doctors and the healthcare economy in Australia