Meet the
SPEAKERS
Discover the esteemed lineup of speakers at the STI & HIV 2025 World Congress in Montreal. These experts will share their insights, cutting-edge research findings, and invaluable experiences, contributing to the advancement of knowledge in the field of sexually transmitted infections and public health
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
JeannE
Marrazzo
Jeanne Marrazzo is currently the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Prior to her position at NIAID, Dr. Marrazzo was Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and was a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
Dr. Marrazzo previously served as the president of the International Society for STD Research and received the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association’s Distinguished Career Award, the highest recognition of contributions to research and mentoring in the field. She is currently a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and is board certified in infectious disease. Dr. Marrazzo also has chaired the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Council and the ABIM Infectious Disease Specialty Board. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from Harvard University; her M.D. from Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia; and her M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of Washington, Seattle. She completed residency and chief residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
Jo-Anne
R. Dillon
Jo-Anne R. Dillon is President of the International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infections (IUSTI). She is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, and a Research Scientist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada). She is the recipient of numerous awards and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada. She founded the National Laboratory for Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Health Canada) and is a co-founder of the WHO-sponsored Gonococcal Antimicrobial Susceptibility Program (GASP).
PLENARY SPEAKERS
JeannE
Marrazzo
Jeanne Marrazzo is currently the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Prior to her position at NIAID, Dr. Marrazzo was Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and was a professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington.
ODILE
HARRISON
Odile Harrison is a senior research fellow in the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of Infection and is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Odile undertook her PhD at Imperial College London, supervised by Professors Robert Heyderman and Brian Robertson. After gaining her PhD, Odile was awarded a Marie Curie fellowship to work at Sanofi Pasteur in Lyon, France where she became interested in bioinformatics and the analysis of nucleotide sequence data.