Daisy is a Senior Evaluation Officer with a background in alcohol and other drugs and post-prison support. She is passionate about partnering with priority populations to enhance health and wellbeing through evidence-based services, which are tailored to local needs.

Tina Goodwin is a strong Pakana Women and has been working for her Palawa Community for the past 25 years as an AHW in many roles and in the past 2 years has been the Statewide AOD Coordinator for the Aboriginal Community in Lutruwita. Tina comes from the Burgess, Maynard, Mansell, Brown Family from Cape Barren Island and family impacted from the stolen generation. Tina prides herself as a strong trusted community member, born and raised in the Palawa Community. Tina supports the Aboriginal Community in their pathways to address AOD addictions, with Culturally Safe options and supports statewide, Tina is based in Nipaluna at the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, with AOD supports across Lutruwita. Tina also supports many Palawa Community in the prison system, with already build and trusteed relationships that she can support with accessing AOD programs. Tina is extremely passionate and uses her voice to advocate and improve the lives of all her community. Tina is a mother of 3 adult children and a grandmother to 4 strong robust grandsons, and love getting away on country with her husband Snowy.

Dr Sophia Schroeder is a qualitative researcher with expertise in qualitative and mixed methods research and using social theory to address barriers to wellbeing among marginalised groups. She is a postdoctoral Research Officer at Burnet Institute working on Disease Elimination projects in Australia and Internationally.

Dr Kingsland is a Program Manager with Hunter New England Population Health and a Senior Research Fellow with the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Newcastle. Her work focusses on translating effective interventions into routine practice at the population level.

Sarah is the Manager of the Sexual Health & Blood Borne Viruses Projects Team in South Eastern Sydney Local Health District. Over the past 17 years Sarah has held various leadership, health promotion and clinical roles within the HIV, sexual health and viral hepatitis sector.

Willis Ng is a Hepatitis B Project Officer at Hepatitis NSW, specializing in community engagement and point-of-care testing for hepatitis B in migrant populations. With a background in biomedical science, he is dedicated to advancing Australia’s progress toward hepatitis B elimination through collaboration and culturally informed healthcare solutions.

Dr Nicole Allard is a post-doctoral researcher and epidemiologist at WHO Collaborating Centre for viral hepatitis, a senior lecturer at University of Melbourne and a general practitioner at cohealth.

In undertaking role of Research Lead with AIVL Jess draws on her lived experience and 15years plus of working across a variety of community controlled health and social settings, and providing specialist functions spanning research, evaluation, policy, advocacy, grant writing, new program and model of care development and documentation etc.