Paula is the Hep B PAST partnership project manager and a PhD scholar focusing on improving outcomes for hepatocellular carcinoma in Australia’s First Nations Peoples.

George Garambaka Gurruwiwi is a Yolngu man and clan leader and has been a Community Based Researcher for 15 years.

David Carter is a Scientia Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice at UNSW. He is an Australian lawyer and expert in the field of medical and health law, applying his legal expertise and research to understand law as a factor in the cause, distribution and prevention of disease and injury while advancing the fair treatment of those living with communicable disease. David currently leads the Health+Law Research Partnership which aims to improve access to justice and quality of life for those living with Hepatitis B or HIV in Australia by removing legal barriers to testing and treatment. He serves as a board member of the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre and is Chair of the Ramsay Health Care Human Research Ethics Committee

Ele has been practicing harm reduction in life and work for over 20 years. She began in 2001 as a peer worker in Melbourne, and since then has worked in Australia, China and Viet Nam. Between 2009 and 2015, Ele was the International Program Manager at AIVL, supporting the development of peer-led drug user organisations including the Asian, Indonesian, Vietnamese and Myanmar networks of people who use drugs. Ele returned to AIVL in early 2023 after coordinating overdose response training, pharmacotherapy support, and needle syringe outreach programs in Melbourne. She is now the AIVL Deputy CEO where she advocates for a future in which people who use drugs are not criminalised or stigmatised.