Kelly Hosking is a registered nurse and has completed a Master of Public Health. She has worked both Internationally and in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island communities in public health and primary health care. She currently works with Remote Primary Health Care Branch, NT, as the Continuous Quality Improvement Facilitator.

Kathryn Stewart is the Hepatitis B Program Manager at Hepatitis Australia, where she has worked since 2015. Most recently, she has been instrumental in developing and implementing the national Hepatitis B Community Education Project (HBCEP). The HBCEP is the first systematic community education response to hepatitis B in Australia.

Dr Tanya Applegate leads the research laboratory team in the Viral Hepatitis and Clinical Research Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney and. Tanya’s interests include HCV translational research, focusing on the development and implementation of molecular diagnostics to improve HCV health care among marginalised populations and resource limited settings.

Jenny oversees coordination of surveillance projects within the Viral Hepatitis Epidemiology and Prevention Program at the Kirby Institute. Her current Australian projects include the Australian NSP Survey, the NSW NSP Enhanced Data Collection and the NSP National Minimum Data Collection.

Evan obtained his PhD a the University of New South Wales in Sydney looking at HCV transmission and treatment among people who inject drugs. He is is now working as a postdoctoral fellow in the Viral Hepatitis research Program at the Kirby Institute in Sydney.

Jake joined the Centre for Social Research in Health (CSRH) following nearly a decade working in harm reduction services in Sydney’s Kings Cross. He has a longstanding interest in the potential of qualitative research to challenge the stigmatising and pathologising accounts commonplace within conventional explanations of injecting drug use.