Ye Zhang is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Kirby Institute. Her main research interests include technology innovation, infectious diseases prevention, sexual health and mental health.

Dr. Tashi Dendup is working as a Sr. Health Program Manager with Save the Children. He completed his PhD from the University of Wollongong, Australia, and also holds a master’s degree in Public Health. Dr. Tashi previously worked for Bhutan’s Ministry of Health for around 10 years.

Dr. Januraga is a professor at the Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University, Indonesia. His work, mainly in the HIV prevention areas, focused on developing and testing innovative strategies for improving HIV testing and treatment uptakes among key populations

Dr Virginia Macdonald is a public health professional who has worked for the WHO and other UN agencies for the past 17 years. She currently works for both the Western Pacific Regional Office as well at Headquarters for the Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programmes. The focus of her work in on HIV, viral hepatitis and STI prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care for key populations.

With 20+ years' experience in low-resource settings as a midwife and public health researcher, Lisa has led community- and facility-based research in Papua New Guinea. She has conducted research relating to access to care during pregnancy, unsafe abortion and sexually transmitted infections in pregnancy.

Arron is a penultimate year medical student at The University of Melbourne. He has an interest in reducing health inequity and is hoping to pursue a clinical career incorporating public health.

Nigel is State-wide Coordinator of the NSW DBS Project. He has a joint appointment with NSW Ministry of Health and South Eastern Sydney Local Health District. His work in Community Health, Youth Health/Cancer and Sexual Health has involved senior positions in health promotion, service development, service management and project coordination.

Based at The Peter Doherty Institute or Infection and Immunity, Jacqueline's PhD is looking at the changes to diagnostic microbiology in the post-COVID-19 era such as novel diagnostic assays including point of care tests as well as approaches to self-collection and self-testing for infectious diseases.

Dr Lenka Vodstrcil is a Senior Research Fellow and the principal epidemiologist in the Genital Microbiota and Mycoplasma Group at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. Dr Vodstrcil's translational research program aims to improve management, treatment and control of sexually transmitted infections to improve antimicrobial stewarship.

A/Prof Dr. Jason Ong is an academic sexual health specialist and health economist based at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. His research focuses on economic evaluations and demand creation strategies to improve the uptake of HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) testing and management services.