Prestigious lectures

In 2015 the EXCO and GA approved an IUSTI Prestigious Lecture delivered at our IUSTI-World Congresses each year.

There is no formal way of deciding which plenary lecture to nominate, so the President should choose one and name it as the ‘IUSTI Prestigious Lecture’ in order to ensure the Board’s decision was followed.

The list of IUSTI Prestigious Lectures are:

• 1st      2016 (Morocco) – Professor Glenda Gray ‘HIV: How to get to zero infections?’
• 2nd     2017 (Brazil) – Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo ‘Update on vaginal microbiome research’
• 3rd      2018 (Dublin) – 2018 Dr. Marleen Timmerman – ‘Sexual health, sexual rights, and HIV/STI among women in East-Africa’
• 4th      2019 (Vancouver) – Dr. Jorgen Jensen ‘Revising STI treatment guidelines in times of rapidly evolving antimicrobial resistant STIs’
  (2020 Congress was cancelled and replaced by a short virtual meeting in December 2021)
• 5th       2021 (Amsterdam virtual and joint Prestigious lecture with ISSTDR) Dr. Joan Chow ‘Tribute to Dr. Julius Schacter’
• 6th       2022  (Victoria Falls) – Dr Yuka Manabe ‘Existing point-of-care tests and future developments for diagnosis and antimicrobial resistance testing’
• 7th       2023 (Chicago) – two speakers in a 1 hour symposium on ‘Sexual Health during Social Disruption’ with Dr Frances Cowen on ‘Providing services for criminalised key populations’ and Dr Valeska Padovese on ‘Refugee and migrant care’
• 8^th        2024 (Sydney) – Prof Michael Marks “The global syphilis epidemic: why is this happening and what should we do about it”