Scientific Program Committee

**Catriona Bradshaw**
*IUSTI Scientific Co-Chair*
Clinician researcher and Head of Research Translation and Mentorship and The Genital Microbiota and Mycoplasma Group at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre.

**Jonathan Ross**
*IUSTI Scientific Co-Chair*
Professor of Sexual Health and HIV, Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham, UK

**Jennifer Power**
*ASRH Scientific co-chair*
Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia

**Kate Seib**
*ASRH Scientific co-chair*
Professor and Associate Director (Research), Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University, Gold Coast Australia

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

**Magnus Unemo**
*Chair -Basic and Laboratory science*
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 - Basic and Laboratory science*
Molecular microbiologist at the University of Melbourne, based at the Royal Women's Hospital, Victoria, Australia

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

**Matt Golden**
*Chair -Clinical Management*
Professor, UW Division of Allergy and Infections Disease, and Director of a the UW and Public Health, Seattle & King Country (PHSKC)

**Sarah Maunsell**
*ASHM Representive*
ASHM Sexual Health program manager

"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.