Keynote Speakers

International Speaker	Biography
	Anne Philpott Anne is a public health professional, pleasure propagandist and 'guerrilla girl' of HIV prevention. She founded ’The Pleasure Project’ in 2004, in frustration of endless AIDS meetings where no one talked about people’s motivations for having sex. The Pleasure Project forges connections between the worlds of public health, academia, and the media and is globally recognised as the agency that has championed putting pleasure into safer sex education. They have influenced many agencies to deliver more effective and relevant sex education and are now working with the World Association of Sexual Health to launch a declaration of pleasure. Anne is published widely in health journals and the media, and as a speaker at international conferences, promoting pleasure in sex education and as the ultimate indicator of female empowerment. The Pleasure Project was awarded the Phil Harvey ‘Prize for Passion in Reproductive Health’ in 2016. Anne developed her passion for sexual and public health, through working on prevention of teenage pregnancy in the UK, domestic violence refuges in London and through increasing use of female condoms globally by 60%. Alongside her work with The Pleasure Project, Anne is a senior health advisor for the UK Government and headed the regional Ebola team. She is responsible for creating WISH, the UK Governments largest ever international sexual health programme and spearheaded their work on ensuring the health portfolio expanded to include nutrition. She is speaking in her personal capacity.
	Chris Beyrer Chris Beyrer MD, MPH, is the inaugural Desmond M. Tutu Professor in Public Health and Human Rights at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is a Professor of Epidemiology, International Health, Health Behavior and Society, Nursing and Medicine at Johns Hopkins. He serves as Director of the Johns Hopkins Training Program in HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Science and as Founding Director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He is the Associate Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) and of the University’s Center for Global Health. Dr. Beyrer has extensive experience in conducting international collaborative research and he has spent much of his career focusing on health and human rights. He was President of the International AIDS Society from 2014-16 and was elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine in 2014.
	Claudia Escourt Claudia Estcourt is Professor of Sexual Health & HIV at Glasgow Caledonian University and Honorary Professor at UCL, and a consultant physician in Sexual Health & HIV at NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, UK and Central & North West London NHS Trust. She is specialist adviser to the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland. Her research addresses three major public health priorities: 1) Self-managed, digital healthcare, focussing on development and evaluation of complex online clinical care pathways within sexual health & HIV medicine, 2) HIV PrEP public health programmes, clinical service development, evaluation and monitoring; 3) Preventing transmission of STIs & reducing undiagnosed HIV by increasing effectiveness of partner notification strategies, developing tailored interventions for those at highest risk, focussing on both young heterosexuals & men who have sex with men (lustrum.org.uk).
	Francois Venter Professor WD Francois Venter, MD, FCP, PhD is the Divisional Head of Ezintsha at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, where he received most of his training. He has an active interest in public sector access to HIV services, and his work involves health systems research that directly translates into national programmes, most recently involving dolutegravir and TAF. He leads multiple antiretroviral treatment optimisation studies and is currently working on new first and second line antiretroviral options, patient linkage-to-care interventions, and self-testing projects. He has led large PEPFAR-funded HIV programmes in South Africa, focusing on different populations such as men, women, children, young people, truckers, sex workers and LGBTI. For the last 20 years, he has been an advisor to bodies such as the South African government, Southern African HIV Clinicians Society, UNAIDS and WHO, including contributing to international, regional and national HIV guidelines. He has been involved in several human rights cases involving HIV within the Southern African region and has an active interest in medical ethics.
	Nittaya Phanuphak Nittaya Phanuphak, MD, PhD is the Chief of PREVENTION at the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. She has deep interest in the use of Key Population-Led Health Services (KPLHS) approach to enhance access to HIV testing, prevention and treatment among key populations (KP). To ensure domestic funding towards KPLHS sustainability, she currently oversees the establishment of a national platform to build capacity, certify and legalize KP lay providers to provide HIV and STI services in Thailand. The Tangerine Clinic in Bangkok is one of the most successful KPLHS examples established in 2015. This trans-led clinic has provided integrated hormone and sexual health services to more than 3,500 transgender clients over a 4-year period. The model is being expanded to community-based organizations, as well as public and private clinics, in a few countries in South-East Asia. Dr Phanuphak has served as the Asia Pacific representative in the IAS Governing Council since 2018.
	Terryann Clark Dr Terryann Clark PhD, MPH, RN (Ngāpuhi) is part-time Associate Professor at the School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, New Zealand, and part-time public health promotion advocate as the Child and Youth Friendly Cities coordinator for Whangarei City. Terryann led the Youth’12 national youth health and wellbeing survey, is co-lead of the Youth’19 Rangatahi Smart Survey and has been a founding member of the Adolescent Health Research Group since 1998. She was previously a sexual health nurse, sexual health advisor and helped establish the Auckland Peer Sexuality Support Programme. She has worked extensively as an Adolescent Nurse Specialist in various roles and as an academic. She has written over 80 publications, 25 reports and has led several national research projects related to youth health, and Māori health. Her major research interests are: youth health, indigenous health, mental health, sexual health, advocacy, and healthy youth development with a strong focus on addressing inequity for Māori whanau.