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.

Rani is a Biripi woman from the mid-north coast of NSW and a Research Fellow with the University of Queensland, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. She is currently working with the ATLAS Indigenous Primary Care Surveillance and Research Network, focusing on sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses. As an early career researcher, Rani possesses an evolving research profile and is passionate about data transparency, Indigenous data sovereignty and governance, and meaningful real-world application. Through her work, Rani is committed to fostering culturally sensitive collaborations, inclusive health solutions, and advancing health equity within Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

Josh Hanson is a general and infectious diseases physician based in Cairns. He has an interest in the management of infectious diseases in remote and resource poor settings.

Dr Alisa Pedrana is a principal research fellow and public health practitioner at the Burnet Institute. Her work combines BBV/STIs epidemiology and surveillance, program evaluation and implementation science to design evidence-based interventions and improve health service delivery for key populations. She currently leads the Eliminate Hepatitis C Australia Partnership, a national collaboration of >75 stakeholders that is partnering to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030.

Erin is a Principal Research Technician with the University of Queensland Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and coordinates the Strategies for Hepatitis C Testing and Treatment in Aboriginal Communities that Lead to Elimination (SCALE-C) Study. Erin has over fifteen years of experience in public health in Australia and internationally.

Dr Genevieve Martin is a clinician-researcher currently undertaking specialist clinical training in Infectious Diseases in Darwin, and is working as a Senior Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research. Dr Martin is interested in furthering our understanding of immune responses to viral infections including hepatitis B and HIV.

Faith Bassett is an experienced clinical nurse at Cairns Sexual Health Service who worked as the Clinical Nurse Consultant on the Cairns Hep C Free project in 2023.

Dr Alyssa Fitzpatrick is an Infectious Diseases Physician based in Adelaide, Australia. She has an interest in tropical medicine and obstetric and perinatal infectious disease, and recently completed her last six months of registrar training at the Royal Darwin Hospital in 2023.