Professor Suzanne Fraser, Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
Professor Suzanne Fraser is Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University and visiting professorial fellow in the Centre for Social Research in Health at UNSW. Her research focuses on the social and political dimensions of health, including sexual health, BBVs and illicit drug use.
THEME: Social, political & cultural aspects.
William C. Miller, MD, PhD, MPH, Senior Associate Dean for Research, Professor, Division of Epidemiology, The Ohio State University
William (Bill) Miller, MD, PhD, MPH is Senior Associate Dean for Research and Professor, Division of Epidemiology in the College of Public Health at The Ohio State University. Prof. Miller is an infectious diseases epidemiologist. His work has included observational and interventional studies focused on a variety of areas such as partner services, spatial epidemiology, sexual and social networks, improving surveillance data, and access to services. He currently leads studies in the U.S., Vietnam, and Malawi. He currently serves as editor-in-chief for the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases and associate editor for Epidemiology.
THEME: Epidemiology, Prevention & Health Promotion.
Jessica Fields, Professor, Departments of Health & Society and Sociology, University of Toronto; Vice-Dean Faculty Affairs, University of Toronto Scarborough
Jessica Fields is Professor of Health & Society and Vice-Dean Faculty Affairs at the University of Toronto Scarborough and Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. Fields has studied teaching and learning about sexuality though school-based ethnographies of sexuality education; participatory action research with incarcerated women of color; and community-based research that draws on storytelling to understand and interrupt ordinary hostility in high schools to LGBTQ sexualities. She is currently co-PI on a Canadian Tri-Council study of risk in lives of queer and racialized young women in the wake of COVID-19. Fields is the author of Risky Lessons: Sex Education and Social Inequality (which won the 2009 ASA Race, Class, and Gender Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award) and Social Research Methods (Oxford University Press 2022), and her publications appear in journals including Harvard Educational Review, Sex Education, Sexualities, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, and Social Problems.
THEME: Social, political & cultural aspects.
David Caron, Professor of French and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Michigan USA
David Caron is Professor of French and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author of AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures (Wisconsin, 2001) and My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community (Cornell, 2009). He has also co-edited a volume of essays on Charlotte Delbo, Les revenantes (Le Mirail, 2011). His latest book, entitled The Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV (Minnesota, 2014), offers a personal look at the experience, meanings, and politics of HIV disclosure. He is currently at work on a book on the poetics of personhood in contemporary queer cinema from Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
THEME: Social, political & cultural aspects.
Professor Linda-Gail Bekker, Director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town and Chief Research Officer of the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation.
Professor Linda-Gail Bekker is Director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town and Chief Research Officer of the Desmond Tutu Health Foundation. She is a physician scientist and infectious disease specialist. Her research interests include programmatic and action research around antiretroviral roll out and TB integration, prevention of HIV in women, youth and MSM. Bekker has also recently been involved in a number of COVID19 vaccine trials and co-leads the Sisonke Phase 3B study which has seen the vaccination of 500 000 health care workers in South Africa. She has led numerous investigator-driven studies in HIV treatment, prevention and tuberculosis. She is a past president of the International AIDS Society and served as the International Co-Chair of the 9th IAS Conference and 22nd International AIDS Conference and Co-Chaired the Research 4 Prevention Conference that was held in January 2021.
THEME: Epidemiology, Prevention & Health Promotion.
Marcus Chen, Adjunct Professor, Central Clinical School Monash University, Melbourne Sexual Health Centre
Marcus Chen is Adjunct Professor at the Central Clinical School, Monash University and a specialist in sexual health medicine at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health. Marcus has published over 300 papers on sexually transmitted infections. He was Chair for the STI subcommittee of the Australian Government Ministerial Advisory Committee on Blood Born Viruses and Sexually Transmitted Infections. He is currently lead investigator on an NHMRC Partnership Project grant focused on improving testing and control of syphilis.
THEME: Clinical Management & Therapeutics.
Chris Kenyon, Head of STI Unit, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp.
Chris Kenyon is currently head of the STI Unit at the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. In addition to his post here, he works as an Infectious Diseases Physician at the University Hospital Antwerp and at the University of Cape Town. He trained as an Infectious Diseases specialist at the University of Cape Town, and has also trained in Public Health (LSHTM), politics, philosophy, economics (Oxford) and completed his PhD in Epidemiology (Uni Antwerp).
THEME: Clinical Management & Therapeutics.
Robert Monaghan, Managing Director, Monaghan Dreaming
Robert Monaghan is the Managing Director of Monaghan Dreaming; a 100% Aboriginal owned consultancy Firm. He is a descendant of the Bundjalung and Gumbaynggir Nations on his grandmother’s side, his family and extended family are from the North Coast alongside the Clarence River at Baryulgil. He has spent 25 years working within the Health sector with National, State and Local Governments working within the Aboriginal community-controlled sector. Currently Robert is involved in research projects at University of New South Wales’ (UNSW) Kirby Institute for the past 8 years in Aboriginal communities across Australia whilst completing a Master of Public Health degree and a PhD involving research in Novel initiatives to enhance Indigenous people’s engagement in health services. Robert has a diverse range of learnt and lived experiences that he attributes to working in and with communities that are passionate about the equality for Aboriginal people and culture. Throughout his career, he has been exposed to a diverse range of client groups, services models or practices, working environments and stakeholders in which has enabled me to apply high level of flexibly and proficiency in communication, innovation, management, research and technical expertise.
THEME: Epidemiology, Prevention & Health Promotion.
Dr. Beatriz Grinsztejn, Director of the STI/AIDS Clinical Research Laboratory – Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dr. Beatriz Grinsztejn is a infectious diseases physician-scientist with over three decades of experience in HIV research. Based at the Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases-Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She is the Director of the STI/AIDS Clinical Research Laboratory and principal investigator of the FIOCRUZ HIV Prevention and Therapeutic Clinical Trials Unit at FIOCRUZ.
THEME: Clinical Management & Therapeutics.
Eileen Scully, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins Division of Infectious Diseases
Eileen Scully is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins Division of Infectious Diseases. She is a physician and specialized in the care of people living with HIV and an immunologist leading a laboratory investigating the immunopathogenesis of HIV and pathways to cure.
THEME: Basic Science.
Professor James Ward, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, University of Queensland, QLD
Professor James Ward is a Pitjantjatjara and Nukunu man, an infectious diseases epidemiologist and a national leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research. He is currently the Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at The University of Queensland.
THEME: Epidemiology, Prevention & Health Promotion.