John Zaunders is a Senior Scientist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, whose research encompasses the immunology of HIV and other infectious diseases, based on expertise in flow cytometry and immunological techniques. He has contributed pioneering work in human CD4 T cell subsets, including immunophenotyping of Tregs; study of CCR5+ CD4 T cells, especially activated CCR5+ viral antigen-specific CD4 T cells during acute infection and after vaccination; cytotoxic CD4 T lymphocytes in human viral infections; and the role of T follicular helper cells in human lymph nodes and gut associated lymphoid tissue, during chronic HIV infection, as well as after vaccination. Most recently, he has been involved in dissecting CD4 T cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 infection and to vaccination.

Laura Cooper is an Advanced Respiratory Physiotherapy Clinician working within the Out of Hospital Respiratory Services in the Southern Adelaide Local Health Network. Laura graduated from the University of Sydney in 2001 and has worked in the clinical area of cardiorespiratory physiotherapy both in Sydney and Adelaide and extensively throughout London and Manchester in the United Kingdom. She has a particular interest in airway clearance services and their models of care and has completed a Masters of Research in this area at the University of South Australia in 2021. Laura is currently furthering her field of research in this space as a PhD candidate. Laura currently manages a team of allied health and nursing clinicians that provide community and home-based rehabilitation style hospital avoidance programs to people with chronic lung conditions in the south of Adelaide. Her area of clinical interest is providing community-based outpatient airway clearance intervention to people with chronic mucus hypersecretion. Laura has participated in extensive formal professional development in the area of chronic respiratory condition management and this is evident in the holistic nature of the programs she oversees.

Lucy is a physician working in Sydney with a strong interest in bronchiectasis and ciliary function. She was the inaugural Chair of The Australian Bronchiectasis Consortium and is currently Chair of Lung Foundation Australia.

Yasmeen Al-Hindawi is the Director of Education in Thoracic Medicine, and Respiratory and Sleep Staff Specialist at St Vincent’s Hospital, as well as a TB physician and VMO at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Dr Simone Barry is a respiratory physician working at Royal Adelaide Hospital. She is the Head SA Tuberculosis Service. Commensurate with that position she serves as the state representative for National TB Advisory Committee to provide expert advice to the Australian Government on the prevention and control of TB. She holds a Masters of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Her PhD doctoral thesis examined microRNA as a biomarker for TB. She is currently studying a Masters of Public Health Epidemiology through Harvard Chan School of Public Health.