Mary has been a medical practitioner for nearly thirty years. She has worked as a primary care clinician (GP) in general community health and in Aboriginal community settings in both desert Aboriginal communities and for a long period, until recently, as the Medical Director at the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service. She has been involved in research and held roles as policy and clinical advisor in wide-ranging areas including primary care, population health, efficacy of service models, and safety and quality of health care. Mary has long-standing interests in: health equity; what it takes to support safe, high quality care; and what it takes for people to really experience effective health care.

Dr Fiona Bisshop is a GP at Holdsworth House Brisbane with many years experience in managing HIV and sexual health in high caseload practices. She is an RACGP Fellow, and also has an Honours degree in Microbiology from the University of Queensland. Fiona has a special interest in transgender medicine and is experienced in the complexities of hormone management for this group of patients. She was one of the creators of a weekend workshop in transgender health which has run in Brisbane for the last 2 years, and speaks regularly on this topic. She is an investigator for the QPrEPD demonstration project, and a member of the ASHM treatment guidelines committee.

Rachel Smith is a Registered Nurse, currently working at Sydney Sexual Health Centre and is a Peer Group Facilitator at The Gender Centre in Annandale. Rachel has been volunteering in the trans community since 2013. Her group focuses on providing a safe space, giving support, information and opportunity for peer networking for trans women and gender questioning people at all stages of transition.

Associate Professor James Ward is a Pitjantjatjara/Narungga man, and a national leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research. He is currently the Head of Infectious Diseases Research Program, Aboriginal Health, at the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute. For over two decades he has been working passionately to make a difference in Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander health outcomes through; programs, research, community led interventions and advocacy particularly in the areas of sexual health, HIV and alcohol and other drugs.