Rossaphorn Kittiyawamarn & Nittaya Phanuphak - POC25 Convenors
Thank you to everyone who joined us at the 2nd Asia Pacific Conference on Point of Care Testing for Infectious Diseases (POC 2025).
A special thank you to our dedicated executive and program committee members, reviewers, speakers, sponsors, endorsing partners, and supporters.
The conference took place in vibrant Bangkok, Thailand, from 19–21 June 2025, bringing together global leaders in point-of-care testing, healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, and community representatives.
With a focus on access, equity, and innovation, POC 2025 showcased the latest developments in rapid diagnostic tools and explored implementation strategies across a range of infectious diseases, including HIV, hepatitis, STIs, TB, malaria, cervical cancer, and more.
We are incredibly proud of the connections formed, ideas exchanged, and collaborations initiated during the conference. Together, we explored how point-of-care technologies can help bridge the equity gap in health systems and improve outcomes for communities across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
We look forward to continuing this important work and seeing you at future events.
Thank you for being part of the POC community.
Conference Committee 2025
Rossaphorn Kittiyawamarn - Chief of Bangrak Stis Center
Nittaya Phanuphak - Executive Director at the Institute of HIV Research and Innovation (IHRI)
Executive Committee:
Angela Kelly-Hanku - Kirby Institute
Susan Matthews - Co-Director, Flinders University International Centre for Point-of-Care Testing (POCT)
Jason Grebley - Head of the Hepatitis C and Drug Use Group in the Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, NSW, Australia
Jessica Michaels - Deputy CEO at ASHM Health
Lise Lafferty - Senior Research Fellow at UNSW Sydney
Michelle O'Connor - Director of the Global Division at ASHM Health
Tanya Applegate - The Kirby Institute UNSW Sydney; The RAPID Point of Care Research Consortium; ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub
Rebecca Guy - Professor in Epidemiology at the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW, NSW, Australia
Program Committee:
Virginia MacDonald - WHO, Global HIV, hepatitis and STI Programme
Bao Vu - Senior Technical Director, HIV/TB/Viral Hepatitis, PATH, Vietnam
Chunyan Li - University of Tokyo
Ari Probandari - Universitas Sebelas Maret
Panyaphon Phiphatkhunarnon - Love Foundation
Weiming Tang - Co-Director of UNC Project-China and the Advisor of SESH Global, UNC School of Medicine
Phillip Cunningham - St Vincent’s Health Network
Anita Suresh - Genomics Unit at FIND
Dashika Balak - FIJI Ministry of Health
Phillipp Du Cros - Burnet Institute
Harry Prabowo - Asia Pacific Network of People Living with HIV
Bev Lawton - Victoria University of Wellington
Stephen Mills - USAID EpiC Project at FHI 360
Keynote Speakers
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