Keynote Speakers

Kate Dunn
Assistant Professor, York University Faculty of Health, Canada

Dr Kate Dunn is a member of Mississaugi First Nation in what is now Ontario Canada and is Assistant Professor at York University Faculty of Health where she combines Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Being Doing and Connecting with experience in Nursing, Public Health and Social Sciences. Engaging Indigenous community perspectives to co-create culturally connected awareness resources on liver wellness and hepatitis C.
Kate Seear
Professor, Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Lawyer, Deakin Law School, Deakin University, Australia

Kate Seear is a Professor, Australian Research Council Future Fellow and lawyer, based in the Deakin Law School, Deakin University. She is a leading expert on alcohol and other drug law and policy, and has written extensively about issues including harm reduction and the law; stigma and the law; and human rights and drug policy. She is the author of five books, including Law, drugs and the making of addiction: Just habits, which won the UK Socio-Legal Studies Association’s history and theory book prize. Kate is also the Deputy Chair of Victoria’s landmark Inquiry into Women’s Pain, and an invited member of the Victorian Women’s Health Advisory Council.
Su Wang, MD, MPH

Medical Director, Center for Asian Health and Viral Hepatitis Programs, Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center & Associate Professor, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, United States

Dr. Wang is the Medical Director for the Center for Asian Health and Viral Hepatitis Programs at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center and an associate professor at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in the US. She is living with hepatitis B and serves as Senior Advisor for Global Health for the Hepatitis B Foundation and was president of the World Hepatitis Alliance, a patient led NGO dedicated to harnessing the power of people living with hepatitis to achieve its elimination. Dr. Wang is a practicing internist and has led primary care–based hepatitis programs, outreach efforts and community-based research initiatives. Dr. Wang has served on several World Health Organization (WHO) guideline development committees. She received her Medical Degree from the University of Miami and her Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her Internal Medicine and Pediatric residencies at Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC and was a fellow in the Epidemic Intelligence Service program at the US CDC. 

Panellists

Sione Crawford
CEO, Harm Reduction Victoria, Australia
Sione is CEO of Harm Reduction Victoria. He has been working in harm reduction and lived / living experience and peer organisations in Australia since the early 2000s

Sal-Amanda Endemann
Peer Worker/HepLink Support Officer, NTAHC, Australia

Sal-Amanda Endemann is a Peer Worker/HepLink Support Officer at NTAHC. Grounded in lived experience and community connection, she brings a harm reduction lens to her role working the Nurse/Peer Model of Care. Passionate about improving quality of life, she advocates for respectful, inclusive care—regardless of lifestyle choices.

Peta Gava
Lived Experience Peer Worker, Harm Reduction WA, Australia

Peta is a lived experience peer worker at Peer Based Harm Reduction WA, where she has worked in a variety of roles for about 9 years. Peta is one of two AIVL delegates representing people who use drugs in WA. In her time at PBHR WA, Peta has designed and implemented peer education projects with a focus on HCV, worked in mobile health clinics providing testing and treatment for STIs and BBVs, and provides HCV work force development training with a peer perspective to other agencies in WA as a part of WANADA’s HCV Care Capability Project. Currently, Peta’s main role is Overdose Prevention and Peer Naloxone Project Officer, however she continues to work in peer education projects and to deliver workforce development, and she manages PBHR WA Communications and Social Media.

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