Professor Margaret Hellard AM is a Deputy Director at the Burnet Institute, Head of Hepatitis Services in Department of Infectious Diseases at The Alfred Hospital and an Adjunct Professor at Monash University and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. Her research has encompassed epidemiology, clinical trials, operational/implementation science and laboratory-based studies. For eleven years, she was Head of Department, Professor of HIV Medicine, and consultant physician in Infectious Diseases at King´s College London, and also served as Head of Research at the Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. She is currently based in the HIV, Hepatitis and STI department at the World Health Organisation Headquarters in Geneva, where she has led and coordinated the scientific research and evidence-base and development of WHO global normative guidance in HIV and viral hepatitis B and C infection, alongside implementation of testing and treatment scale-up in low and middle-income countries. Professor Philippa Easterbrook is a senior infectious disease and public health researcher, epidemiogist and physician, who has dedicated more than three decades to clinical care, research, and scale-up of the global response to the HIV epidemic, and the last 7 years also to the global elimination of hepatitis C and B infection. Professor Chevaliez is the President of the Concerted Action 43 of the French National Agency for Research on AIDS and viral Hepatitis (ANRS-MIE). More recently he has focused on the molecular mechanisms underlying the success and failure (including viral resistance) of HBV, HCV and HDV treatment, as well as the development of alternative approaches to venous puncture for screening and diagnosis of viral hepatitis. Professor Chevaliez’s research interests include the diagnosis and virological monitoring of chronic viral hepatitis, and the development of novel therapeutic treatments. Subsequently, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. Professor Chevaliez earned his pharmacy degree and PhD in virology at the University of Paris-Saclay and at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He is also Director of the National Reference Center for Viral Hepatitis B, C and delta, a medical virologist in the department of Virology, and a member of INSERM Unit U955.

Stéphane Chevaliez is Professor of Medicine at the University of Paris-Est in Paris.

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