HIV&AIDS Conference Convenors


Carole Khaw 

Royal Adelaide Hospital 

Associate Professor Carole Khaw is a Senior Consultant Sexual Health Physician and Co-Head of Unit at the Adelaide Sexual Health Centre, Infectious Diseases Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital. She is also Clinical Associate Professor at the School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide. She holds an Associate Fellowship with the Australian and New Zealand Association of Health Professional Education. She remains a strong advocate for vulnerable and high - risk populations and continues to work towards ensuring that no one is left behind in the fight against HIV. 


Jeanne Ellard 

Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society 

Jeanne Ellard is Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University.  Jeanne's work in the field of HIV has focused on understandings of risk and prevention and experiences of diagnosis and treatment.   

ASRH Conference Convenors


Michael Traeger

Burnet Institute 

Michael is an epidemiologist and research fellow in the HIV & STI Prevention Group at Burnet Institute and holds joint appointments with Monash University and the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School in the US. His research focuses on STI surveillance and evaluating the implementation of new testing and prevention strategies for HIV and STIs among priority populations. 


Emma Knowland 

Australasian Sexual Health & HIV Nurses Association 

Emma is an endorsed Sexual Health Nurse Practitioner, HIV S100 prescriber and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner working in Queensland Health. She is the President of the Australasian Sexual Health & HIV Nurses Association (ASHHNA) and a member of the Australasian Sexual and Reproductive Health Alliance (ASRHA) executive committee. Emma has over 20 years nursing experience working predominantly in sexual & reproductive health in the public system in a range of Advanced clinical practice, teaching, and clinical research roles across both hospital and community settings.  


We acknowledge that the conference is being held the traditional lands of the Kaurna people. We recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' continuing connection to land, water, and community and we pay our respects to Elders past and present. ASHM acknowledges Sovereignty in this country has never been ceded. It always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land.