Eric Chow is an STI epidemiologist and the Unit Head at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on STI epidemiology, prevention, antimicrobial resistance and novel interventions.

Callum is an Epidemiologist at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR), working primarily on STI surveillance. Callum also works half-time doing field epidemiology training in Papua New Guinea alongside colleagues in Australia.

Elenor is an epidemiologist focusing on sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses at the Communicable Diseases Branch at Health Protection NSW.

Sara Bell is a second-year PhD student at The University of Queensland's Centre for Clinical Research. Her research focuses on the utility of rapid molecular antimicrobial resistance diagnostics and genomics to strengthen clinical management and surveillance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and other sexually transmissible infections in Australia.

Dr Dorothy Machalek is a Senior Research Fellow at the Kirby Institute. She holds a Doctorate in epidemiology and a Master of Public Health from the University of New South Wales. Her research focuses on the development and implementation of novel public health surveillance systems for infectious diseases.

Dr Emma Sweeney is a microbiologist whose research focuses on molecular diagnosis and characterisation of sexually transmitted infections. Her primary focus is the development of novel diagnostics for individualised treatment of Mycoplasma genitalium.