Program Track Committees

Clinical Management

**Matt Golden**
*Chair*
Professor, UW Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and Director of a the UW and Public Health, Seattle & King County (PHSKC)

**Kit Fairley**
*Member*
Director of the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre and Professor of Public Health at Monash University

**William M. Geisler**
*Member*
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Division of Infectious Diseases

**David Lewis**
*Member*
Director at the Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, and Conjoint Professor at the Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney

**Erica Plummer**
*Member*
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Central Clinical School, Monash University

**Sara Whitburn**
*Member*
GP, Senior Medical Educator Clinical Education Manager Sexual Health Victoria

Prevention and Behavioural Science

**Rebbeca Guy**
*Chair*
Professor in Epidemiology at the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW

**John Saunders**
*Member*
The Clinical Champion for the National Chlamydia Screening Programme, Public Health England

**Weiming Tang**
*Member*
Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

**Allison Carter**
*ECR*
Senior Lecturer and Sexual Health and Reproductive Equity Research Group Leader, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney

**Maria Eugenia Escobar**
*Member*
Gynecologist- Ped Adolescent Gyn-Reproductive Gynecology Endocrinologist, IUSTI EXCO member, and Pass President Argentinian Society for the Study of Ob Gyn Infections and STIs

**Darrell Tan**
*Member*
Clinician-Scientist, Division of Infectious Diseases, St. Michael's Hospital, and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

**Benjamin Doyle**
*Member*
Pou Whakahaere Senior Māori Advisor at Burnett Foundation Aotearoa

Basic and Laboratory Science

**Magnus Unemo**
*Chair*
Director of the global WHO Collaborating Centre for STIs, Örebro, Sweden. Professor at Örebro University, Sweden and Honorary Professor at University College London, UK

**Gerald Murray**
*Chair*
Molecular microbiologist at the University of Melbourne, based at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Victoria, Australia

**Fabian Kong**
*ECR*
Deputy Head, Sexual Health Unit at the University of Melbourne

**Michael Marks**
*Member*
Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases & General Internal Medicine at the Department of Clinical ResearchLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

**Helen Fifer**
*Member*
Consultant Microbiologist at the Blood Safety, Hepatitis, STI & HIV Division UK Health Security Agency

**Emma Sweeney**
*ECR*
Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland

**Yonatan Grad**
*Member*
Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

**Jørgen Skov Jensen**
*Member*
Consultant physician at Statens Serum Institut (SSI), and Copenhagen Denmark

Epidemiology and Surveillance

**Jane Hocking**
*Chair*
Professor of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne

**Lenka Vodstrcil**
*Chair*
Senior Research Fellow and the principal epidemiologist in the Genital Microbiota and Mycoplasma Group at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Central Clinical School, Monash University.

**Lisa Manhart**
*Member*
Professor of Epidemiology & Global Health at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA

**Laith J. Abu-Raddad**
*Member*
Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the Weill Cornell Medicine – Qatar, Cornell University

**Kyle Bernstein**
*Member*
Chief, Public Health Workforce Branch at the Division of Workforce Development, CDC

**Francis Ndowa**
*Member*
Director and Physician (Specialist Dermato-venereologist) at the Skin & Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic in Harare, Zimbabwe

**Gwenda Hughes**
*Member*
Deputy director for Research at the Centre for Epidemic Preparedness and Response, UK

Social research, community and policy

**Kath Albury**
*Chair*
Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, and an Associate Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society at Swinburne University of Technology

**Daniel Grace**
*Member*
Associate Professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, and the Canada Research Chair in Sexual and Gender Minority Health

**Benjamin Riley**
*Member*
Policy and Public Affairs Manager at ASHM

**Sheena Callaghan** 
*Member*
Education Lead at True Relationships & Reproductive Health

**Lucy Watson**
*Member*
ASHM Policy And Development Officer at the ACON

"An interpretation of the layers of occupation of First Nations People (Gumbaynggirr/Bundjalung Naions) and their symbiotic relationship with flora and fauna on the mighty Clarence River"
Artwork: "Bindarray" - River by Deborah Taylor

We acknowledge that the conference is being held the traditional lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuing connection to land, water, and community and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. ASHM acknowledges Sovereignty in this country has never been ceded. It always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.