Angela Butler is an otolaryngologist head and neck surgeon based in Christchurch. She completed her FRACS through RACS in 2012, and subspecialised in head and neck surgery, reconstruction and facial plastics at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada in 2014. Angela is heavily involved in training -   member of the ORL NZ training committee and chair of this committee 2019 - 2022, is a current examiner for RACS for ORL and is  a senior lecturer at the University of Otago. She works in both public and private practice. 

The Education Unit of Auckland Sexual Health Services consist of Ayla, Imogen and Rachael who all bring a unique perspective and background into their work within youth healthcare and health promotion.

Tania Huria (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Mutunga ki Wharekauri)  is the Director of Hauora Māori and Equity at Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa and a Hon Associate Professor at the Māori Indigenous Health Innovation Department, Ōtakou Whakaihu Waka (The University of Otago, Christchurch). Tania has been involved in research and teaching with a focus on addressing Māori health inequities for 17 years. The findings of Tania’s PhD thesis led to the design and development of the CONSIDER statement “the Consolidated criteria for strengthening reporting of health research involving Indigenous Peoples”.  Which is used internationally by researchers and is listed on the EQUATOR network to enhance transparency of reporting of research involving Indigenous Peoples.

Tania sees her role at Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa as an opportunity to advocate for reproductive justice and sexual and reproductive equity in Aotearoa.  Tania is a board member of the Tamai Foundation and is a māmā to two teenage tama and a fur baby.

Akira Le Fevre is based in Ōtautahi Christchurch Akira and has 20+ years of lived experience working as an advocate for rainbow communities through Christchurch Pride, queer youth group Qtopia, Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa and The Burnett Foundation. Akira is currently the Health New Zealand Te Whatu Ora National Lead Rainbow Communities in Service Improvement & Innovation as part of the Consumer Engagement and Whānau Voice team. This role ensures the voice of rainbow communities help influence and co-design national health services to create more equitable health outcomes.

Nicky Perkins trained as a sexual health physician in Auckland and London and completed her training in 2000. She has been employed as a sexual health physician at Auckland Sexual Health Service since 2001. Nicky takes a Whole Person approach to her practice, and in addition to general sexual health medicine, she has a special interest in vulvovaginal conditions, genital pain and genital dermatology.

Julia Scott is a sexual health physician at Tū Ora Wellington Sexual Health Service, and a public health physician at the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) where she provides clinical oversight for national STI, hepatitis B, C and mpox surveillance. 

She is past president of NZSHS and currently represents NZSHS on the executive committee of the Australasian Sexual and Reproductive Health Alliance.

Diane Shannon grew up in Timaru but have lived in Otautahi Christchurch most of her adult life. She worked as a teacher, as an activist for the Womens' Movement in the 1970s and 80s, then as a health promoter in the area of sexual health from 1992 to 2023, with the New Zealand AIDS Foundation  and then with the Public Health Service. Diane is now retired from that role and spends her time doing a variety of things that interest he and bring her joy.