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Full Schedule

  • Monday, July 24, 2023
  • 08:00 – 10:00 CST
    WHO/TDR Designathon Practical Guide Development
  • 08:00 – 15:00 CST
    WHO Pre-Conference Sessions
  • 08:00 – 15:15 CST
    Using Embedded Program Science to Improve Equity, Optimize Service Coverage, and Achieve Population-level Impact within HIV and STI Prevention and Care Programs
  • 08:30 – 15:00 CST
    IUSTI World 100 Hundred Years Celebration Advanced Course
  • 09:00 – 12:00 CST
    Global STI research and benchmarking
  • 09:00 – 12:00 CST
    Psychology of Sexual Health
  • 09:00 – 12:00 CST
    STIIX: Global STI research and benchmarking
  • 10:00 – 12:00 CST
    Invite Only: Abbott
  • 10:00 – 12:00 CST
    Participatory Designathon Pre-Conference Satellite
  • 10:00 – 12:00 CST
    Structural Interventions for Sexual Health Promotion and STI Prevention – Implications for Workforce Development
  • 11:00 – 13:00 CST
    Atlas of Queer Anatomy Workshop
  • 11:00 – 14:00 CST
    The STI Prevention Pipeline: Where Are We, and What Will It Take to Move Forward Faster?
  • 12:00 – 14:00 CST
    Community-based integrated HIV and sexual and reproductive health intervention to improve HIV outcomes in youth – The CHIEDZA and STICH Trials
  • 12:00 – 14:00 CST
    Invite Only: STD Ed Board meeting
  • 12:00 – 14:00 CST
    Panel Discussion on Transgender Care
  • 13:00 – 15:00 CST
    Invite Only: Klausner
  • 13:00 – 15:00 CST
    NGU ISSTDR Pre-Symposium
  • 14:00 – 15:00 CST
    Early Career Mentoring Hour
  • 16:00 – 18:00 CST
    Opening - Opening Session

    Moderator: Bobbie Van Der Pol, PhD, MPH – University of Alabama

    Invited Talk

  • 18:00 – 20:00 CST
    Opening Reception and IUSTI Centenary
  • Tuesday, July 25, 2023
  • 07:00 – 08:00 CST
    Breakfast Session: Ask an expert
  • 07:00 – 08:00 CST
    Breakfast Session: Comprehensive Care for Women with STIs and Vaginitis: The Role of Molecular Diagnostics in Co-Testing to Avoid Missed Diagnoses
  • 07:00 – 08:00 CST
    Breakfast Session: Mycoplasma genitalium: Understanding prevalence and clinical management of infection in high-risk populations
  • 07:00 – 18:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Community Group
  • 07:00 – 18:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Early Career Research Group
  • 07:00 – 18:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Silver Group
  • 07:00 – 18:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Traveller Group
  • 08:30 – 09:30 CST
    PL1 - Plenary 1: Sexual Health: Trust and Rights

    Moderator: Patricia Kissinger, BSN, MPH, PhD (she/her/hers) – Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

    Moderator: Andrew Winter, PhD (he/him/his) – NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

    Invited Talk

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    O1 - Vaginal Conditions

    Moderator: Janneke H.H.M van de Wijgert, MD PhD MPH (she/her/hers) – Julius Center of Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht

    Moderator: Hilary Reno, MD, PhD – Washington University in St. Louis, School of Medicine

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    O2 - Reaching the Vulnerable

    Moderator: Abigail Norris Turner, PhD – Ohio State University

    Moderator: Aneeka Ratnyake

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    O3 - Syphilis: Epidemiology and Clinical

    Moderator: Jane Rowley – World Health Organization

    Moderator: Susan Tuddenham, MD, MPH – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine - Division of Infectious DIseases

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    Spotlight 1 - Innovations in STI Care

    Moderator: Catherine Mathews, PhD (she/her/hers) – South African Medical Research Council

    Moderator: Emma M. Harding-Esch, MPhil MSc PhD (she/her/hers) – London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

    Invited Talk

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    Symposium 1 - Tackling stigma, strengthening communities

    Moderator: Adele S. Benzaken – University of Brasília / Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Instituto Leonidas & Maria Deane)

    Moderator: Jacky M. Jennings, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

    Invited Talk

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    Symposium 2 - Worldwide strategies against antimicrobial resistance

    Moderator: Tania Crucitti, PhD (she/her/hers) – Institut Pasteur de Madagascar

    Moderator: Magnus Unemo, PhD (he/him/his) – Örebro University

    Invited Talk

  • 11:30 – 13:00 CST
    Advocacy Zone
  • 11:30 – 13:00 CST
    Lunch Session: The importance of meeting underserved women where they are (Lunch is only available to session attendees)
  • 13:00 – 14:00 CST
    PL2 - Plenary 2: Sexual Health and Sexual Pleasure

    Moderator: Lynn Barclay

    Invited Talk

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    O4 - Optimizing urethritis treatment – M. genitalium and pathogens of idiopathic urethritis

    Moderator: Teresa Batteiger, MD MS (she/her/hers) – Indiana University School of Medicine

    Moderator: Jørgen Jensen – Statens Serum Institut

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    O5 - HIV PrEP, Viral STIs

    Moderator: Bill Miller

    Moderator: Charlie Peterson (he/him/his) – University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    O6 - Biomedical prevention for STIs and HIV

    Moderator: Marc Steben

    Moderator: Sebastian S. Fuller, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Oxford

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    LB1 - Late Breaker - 1: LGV, chlamydia and mpox
  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    Spotlight 2 - STI guidelines

    Moderator: Claire Dewsnap

    Moderator: Laura H. Bachmann, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Centers for Disease Control/DSTDP

    Invited Talk

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    Symposium 3 - Vaccines for STI Prevention: Development, Acceptance and Equity

    Invited Talk

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    Symposium 4 - Queer Theory & Intersectionality in STI Prevention and Care

    Moderator: Bradley Stoner, MD, PhD – Queen's University

    Moderator: Jackson  Montgomery (he/him/his) – University of Chicago Medical Center

    Invited Talk

  • 16:00 – 17:00 CST
    Invite Only: NIH Magi meeting
  • 16:00 – 18:00 CST
    Advocacy Zone
  • 16:00 – 18:00 CST
    Invite Only: CDC STIIR Consortium
  • 16:00 – 18:00 CST
    Poster Session
  • 16:30 – 18:00 CST
    Atlas of Queer Anatomy
  • Wednesday, July 26, 2023
  • 07:00 – 08:00 CST
    Breakfast Session: Getting Funded
  • 07:00 – 08:00 CST
    Breakfast Session: STI Testing Symposium
  • 07:00 – 11:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Traveller Group
  • 07:00 – 18:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Community Group
  • 07:00 – 18:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Early Career Research Group
  • 07:00 – 18:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Silver Group
  • 08:30 – 09:30 CST
    PL3 - Plenary 3: Sexual Health during Social Disruption

    Moderator: Liz Foley

    Moderator: Janet D. Wilson, MD – The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

    Invited Talk

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    O7 - Improving management of gonorrhea in times of increasing antimicrobial resistance

    Moderator: Hunter Handsfeld

    Moderator: Katherine Hsu, MD, MPH – MDPH

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    O8 - The Future of STI Detection and Treatment: AI, Bots, and More!

    Moderator: Preethi Pathela

    Moderator: Yudara Kularathne, MD, FAMS – HeHealth.ai

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    O9 - It’s worth a shot: the Science of stopping a global syphilis epidemic, one genome at a time

    Moderator: Khalil G. Ghanem, MD, PhD – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    Moderator: Marco Cusini

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    Spotlight 3 - Epidemic Preparedness: Mpox and Beyond

    Moderator: Andrew Winter, PhD (he/him/his) – NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

    Moderator: Kyle Burnstein

    Invited Talk

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    Symposium 5 - Novel strategies to optimise vaginal health

    Moderator: Christina A. Muzny, MD, MSPH (she/her/hers) – Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Moderator: Erica L. Plummer, PhD (she/her/hers) – Monash University and Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

    Invited Talk

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    Symposium 6 - Centering Equity, Inclusion and Diversity in STI/HIV Research

    Moderator: Dascus Jagadisa-devasri

    Moderator: Lizzi Torrone

    Invited Talk

  • 11:30 – 13:00 CST
    Advocacy Zone
  • 11:30 – 13:00 CST
    Lunch Session: ASTDA Awards (Lunch is only available to session attendees)
  • 13:00 – 14:00 CST
    PL4 - Plenary 4: ASTDA Young Investigators

    Invited Talk

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    LB2 - Late Breaker - 2: gonorrhoea and M. genitalium
  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    O10 - STIs: a global health crisis, but not a lost cause

    Moderator: Joseph D. Tucker – Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; Clinical Research Department, Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

    Moderator: Jorge Saevedra, MD MPH MSc (he/him/his) – AHF-Mexico and AHF Global Public Health Institute

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    O11 - Gonorrhoea: epidemiology and vaccine

    Moderator: Jo-Anne Dillon

    Moderator: Maria Luiza Bazzo

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    O12 - Reducing stigma and improving care for sexual minorities and other vulnerable populations

    Moderator: Lei Zhang, PhD (he/him/his) – Central Clinical School, Monash University

    Moderator: Beth Meyerson, PhD, MDiv. (she/her/hers) – Family and Community Medicine Harm Reduction Research Lab College of Medicine-Tucson University of Arizona

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    Spotlight 4 - Addressing the HIV and STI Syndemic: What Prevention Looks Like in 2023

    Moderator: Meredith Clement, MD (she/her/hers) – Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center - New Orleans

    Moderator: Matthew R. Golden, MD, MPH – University of Washington

    Invited Talk

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    Symposium 7 - Emerging and Neglected STIs

    Moderator: Remco Peters, MD, PhD (he/him/his) – Foundation for Professional Development

    Moderator: Pingyu Zhou

    Invited Talk

  • 14:30 – 16:00 CST
    Symposium 8 - Implementation to Scale

    Moderator: Jeanne Marrazzo

    Moderator: Patricia Kissinger, BSN, MPH, PhD (she/her/hers) – Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

    Invited Talk

  • 16:00 – 17:30 CST
    Invite Only: GARDP
  • 16:00 – 18:00 CST
    Advocacy Zone
  • 16:00 – 18:00 CST
    Poster Session
  • 16:30 – 18:00 CST
    Atlas of Queer Anatomy
  • Thursday, July 27, 2023
  • 07:00 – 08:00 CST
    Breakfast Session: GC/CT Self-testing and Self-sampling roundtable with FDA
  • 07:00 – 08:00 CST
    Breakfast Session: Writing a Scientific Manuscript
  • 07:00 – 08:00 CST
    Invite Only: IUSTI ExCo
  • 07:00 – 11:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Community Group
  • 07:00 – 11:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Early Career Research Group
  • 07:00 – 11:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Silver Group
  • 07:00 – 11:00 CST
    Design-a-thon: Traveller Group
  • 08:30 – 09:30 CST
    PL5 - Plenary 5: Communicating Science through Comedy

    Moderator: Bobbie Van Der Pol, PhD, MPH – University of Alabama

    Invited Talk

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    O13 - 2022 Mpox outbreak: Challenges and Innovations
  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    O14 - Future of STI/HIV testing: Trends and Innovations

    Moderator: Julie Dombrowski, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Washington

    Moderator: Katherine Hsu, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – MDPH

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    O15 - Pathogenesis and prevention of Chlamydia trachomatis infections

    Moderator: William M. Geisler, MD, MPH – University of Alabama at Birmingham

    Moderator: Jane Hocking, BAppSc, MPH, MHlthSc, PhD – University of Melbourne

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    Symposium 10 - Advances in accessing, analysing and disseminating STI data

    Moderator: Lizzi Torrone

    Moderator: John Saunders

    Invited Talk

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    Spotlight 5 - New paradigms in Sexual Health

    Moderator: Bradley Stoner, MD, PhD – Queen's University

    Moderator: Linda M. Niccolai, PhD, ScM – Yale School of Public Health

    Invited Talk

  • 10:00 – 11:30 CST
    Symposium 9 - Controlling syphilis - innovative approaches

    Moderator: Marcus Chen, PhD (he/him/his) – Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health and Central Clinical School, Monash University

    Moderator: Pingyu Zhou

    Invited Talk

  • 11:30 – 13:00 CST
    Atlas of Queer Anatomy
  • 11:30 – 13:00 CST
    Lunch Session: Setting up a remote/home testing STI programme: a practical toolkit (Lunch is only available to session attendees)
  • 11:30 – 13:00 CST
    Lunch Symposium: Hot Talks in Sexually Transmitted Disease Prevention (Lunch is only available to session attendees)
  • 13:00 – 15:00 CST
    Closing - Closing session

    Moderator: Bobbie Van Der Pol, PhD, MPH – University of Alabama

  • 15:00 – 18:00 CST
    Invite Only: ASTDA BOD