Linda-Gail Bekker, MBChB, DTMH, DCH, FCP(SA), PhD, is Professor of medicine and deputy director of the Desmond Tutu HIV Centre at the Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town. She is also chief operating officer of the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation, a not for profit organization that works to improve the wellbeing of people from some of the poorest communities in South Africa. She is a physician scientist with a keen interest in HIV, tuberculosis and related diseases. Her doctoral work focused on the host response to tuberculosis both with and in the absence of HIV co-infection. Subsequently her research interests have expanded to include programmatic and action research around antiretroviral roll out and TB integration, prevention of HIV in women, youth and men who have sex with men. She has contributed to >250 publications emanating from the HIV Centre on topics relevant to the South African HIV and TB epidemics. In her role in the Foundation, she is passionate about community development and engagement and actively explores new and innovative ways to tackle the challenge that is HIV. She is President-Elect of the International AIDS Society and serves on a number of other national and international committees and boards.

Dr Amanda Henry is Senior Lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, and an Obstetrician at St George Public Hospital and the Royal Hospital for Women, Sydney. Amanda is a Clinical Academic and Obstetrician, with a clinical practice focussed on high-risk pregnancy at St George Hospital, Sydney. Her research focus, including her current NHMRC Early Career Fellowship, is on hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, and especially on improving long-term cardiovascular health outcomes for women after a hypertensive pregnancy. Amanda is also an active researcher and research supervisor in the areas of high-risk pregnancy, obstetric ultrasound, and clinical trials, and teaches pregnancy care to both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Amanda has a strong emphasis on collaborative research projects to drive improvements in Women’s Health, and in addition to her role with the George Institute, researches collaboratively with the Sydney Partnerships for Health Education, Research and Enterprise (SPHERE) Maternal, Newborn and Women’s Health Clinical Academic Group, the Obstetric Medicine Research Group at St George Hospital, and medical and midwifery colleagues both locally and nationally.