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Ina Park, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator at the California Prevention Training Center and Medical Consultant for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-Division of STD Prevention. Ina was a coauthor of the 2021 and forthcoming 2026 CDC STI Treatment Guidelines and is the author of the book Strange Bedfellows: Adventures in the Science, History and Surprising Secrets of STDs.  Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times and Scientific American.

Asa Radix, MD, is Chief Physician at Landspítali – The National University Hospital of Iceland, Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. A board-certified internist and infectious disease specialist, Dr. Radix has more than three decades of experience providing HIV care in the United States, the Caribbean, and, most recently, Iceland. Their research focuses on HIV prevention, transgender health, sexual health, and healthcare disparities, with an emphasis on developing culturally responsive models of care.

Rupa R. Patel, MD, MPH, FIDSA is an infectious diseases physician in the Community Health Department at Whitman-Walker Health in Washington, D.C. She is the former CDC DHP Subject Matter Expert in PrEP/PEP and Guidelines Lead. Her research focuses on implementation strategies in non-clinic settings.