Professor Alex Broom is the Project Lead for the “Community Perspectives on the Rise of STI Resistance and Antibiotic Use” study. Alex is Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney, and Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies. His work takes a person-centred approach to health, illness and care, exploring the intersections of individual experience and social, political and economic context.

Dr Shiva Chandra is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at the University of Sydney. His research interests include wellbeing, personal life, sexuality, gender, race, digital media, and youth. More specifically, Shiva’s work examines queer attachment, and belonging, including both offline and online experiences.

Professor Carla Treloar is Scientia Professor with the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre. Carla's focus is research which advances scholarship and achieves change in clinical, policy and community programs to benefit people experiencing marginalisation and stigma. She is a primarily qualitative researcher and is grounded in the disciplines of health and social psychology, public health, health services research and health policy.

Professor Damien Ridge specialises in Health Studies at the University of Westminster, and is also a practicing psychotherapist. He has researched sexual health over many decades, and is a leading qualitative research expert on the lived experience of health conditions, having previously worked in the Health Experiences Research Group (HERG) at the University of Oxford, where he explored depression and how patients recover.

Professor Catriona Bradshaw is a clinician researcher and Head of Research Translation and Mentorship and of The Genital Microbiota and Mycoplasma Group at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Central Clinical School, Monash University and Alfred Hospital and holds an honorary appointment at the University of Melbourne. Her programme focuses on translational research to improve treatment and control of STIs, including the development and implementation of resistance and point of care diagnostics, antimicrobial resistance and stewardship in STIs, and strategies to optimise reproductive health.

Dr Michelle Peterie is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow and University of Sydney Robinson Fellow at the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, the University of Sydney. Michelle’s work concerns the impacts of social policies and practices on the wellbeing of individuals, families, and communities.

Dr Katherine Kenny is an Australian Research Council DECRA Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies at the University of Sydney. Her research draws on social theory and qualitative methods to better understand how health and illness are understood, treated, experienced, and made meaningful both in healthcare setting and in daily life.

Dr Stephanie Raymond is Centre Manager of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies, and a Research Officer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Sydney. Stephanie has a diverse professional background spanning health, communications, and the social sciences.

Professor Rebecca Guy is an Epidemiology specialist at the Kirby Institute, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW. She has expertise in surveillance and evaluation of public health interventions related to HIV and sexually transmissible infections, and also focuses on optimising antibiotic treatment of STIs and using diagnostics to improve antibiotic stewardship.

Dr Tanya Applegate is a Senior Lecturer within the Surveillance Evaluation and Research Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, a Scientific Manager of the RAPID (Research for Asia Pacific Infectious Disease) Diagnostics Centre and a Co-Director of an ARC Industry Transformation Research Hub to combat antimicrobial resistance. Tanya has also worked and studied as a laboratory research scientist for over 20 years, including within regulatory, hospital, private industry, and academic environments.

Professor Jennifer Broom is an Infectious Diseases Physician on the Sunshine Coast, Clinical Sub Dean for Griffith Medical School, and a clinician researcher who is interested in the social and cultural factors that influence infectious diseases and antimicrobial use. She collaborates with diverse partners including state and interstate health services and university partners, and brings clinical relevance and direct translation to the research programmes she participates in.

Dr Lise Lafferty is a Senior Research Fellow with a co-appointment across the Centre for Social Research in Health, and the Surveillance Evaluation and Research Program, the Kirby Institute, UNSW. Her research interests include people who inject drugs (including those in prison and in the community), blood-borne viruses (particularly hepatitis C), sexual health, and Aboriginal health.

Dr Bridget Haire is a senior research fellow at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, and an associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute. She lectures in public health and medical ethics, and has also worked in HIV and sexual and reproductive health for more than 20 years as a journalist, editor, policy analyst and advocate.