Speakers

Esther Freeman, MD, PhD, is Director of Global Health Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. She also serves as the Director of Clinical Innovation and Education for the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital. As founding and immediate past chair of GLODERM (the International Alliance for Global Health Dermatology), she developed an international mentorship program for dermatology changemakers from under-resourced settings around the globe. She is the Vice Chair of the International Foundation for Dermatology, which is the foundation arm of the International League of Dermatologic Societies (ILDS). Her work as a physician-scientist and epidemiologist focuses on access to care and infectious diseases affecting underserved populations globally. She is the principal investigator of the American Academy of Dermatology and ILDS registry for COVID-19, Mpox, and Emerging Infections, and has won two Presidential Citations from the American Academy of Dermatology for her work. She has been a consultant to the World Health Organization. In addition to her >100 scientific papers, some of which have been viewed more than >1 million times in the New England Journal of Medicine, her work has been cited extensively in the lay press, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, and National Geographic.

Dr Claire Fuller is a consultant dermatologist from London, UK. She chairs the International Foundation for Dermatology and is on the executive of the International League of Dermatological Societies.

She is a medical dermatologist with interest in global health, infectious and tropical dermatoses. In addition, she has led a multidisciplinary vulval dermatosis service in the UK for 25 years. She is on the leadership team of the Neglected Tropical Disease NGO Network Skin NTD Cross Cutting Group and is a founder and Vice Chair of GLODERM (The International Alliance for Global Health Dermatology) as well as the International Alliance for the Control of Scabies (IACS).

Dr Thng is a Sexual Health Physician and a Fellow of the Australasian Chapter of Sexual Health Medicine (RACP) and is currently the Medical Director at Gold Coast Sexual Health Service. Dr  Thng is the recipient of an NHMRC Postgraduate Fellowship Award is currently undertaking her PhD at the Institute for Glycomics, Griffith University.  

Dr Thng has been site principal investigator in national and international clinical trials including novel treatment and prevention options for sexually transmissible infections, in particular vaccine and treatment options for Neisseria gonorrhoea. In the last 2 years, she has collaborated with commercial and academic partners to secure funding for clinic trials relating to gonorrhoea, chlamydia, herpes simplex and HIV infection. Dr Thng has a keen interest in research development and leadership, with contributions to HREC and journal review panels and conference organisation and abstract selection committees.