Advancing STI Science & Policy Connecting researchers, clinicians, and public health professionals.
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Research, practice, and policy cannot advance in isolation.
Research, clinical care, and public health policy are deeply interconnected. Progress in one area depends on coordination across all three, ensuring that evidence informs practice, practice shapes policy, and policy supports effective, equitable care. Bringing evidence, practice, and policy into alignment through shared standards, trusted forums, and sustained professional collaboration.
ASTDA brings the STI field together.
For decades, American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (ASTDA) has supported researchers, clinicians, and public health professionals by creating shared spaces for rigorous science, collaboration, and leadership. Through its conferences, peer-reviewed journal, professional recognition, and awards, ASTDA convenes the field, connecting research, clinical practice, and public health policy to advance evidence-based STI prevention and care.
How Progress in STI Science Really Happens
Evidence Informs Practice. Practice shapes policy. Policy supports equitable care.
Generate Evidence
Peer-reviewed research and rigorous data.
Improve Practice
Clinical guidance and public health implementation
Shape
Policy
Standards, recommendations, and funding decisions.
Expand Equitable Care
Accessible, evidence-based prevention and treatment.
ASTDA works across this entire cycle. Convening experts, publishing research, informing policy, and strengthening the professional community.
Be part of the full cycle of evidence, practice, and policy.
How ASTDA supports your work
ASTDA provides multiple ways for professionals across the STI field to connect, contribute, and stay engaged. Regardless of career stage or discipline.
Engage with the community through conferences, forums, and shared dialogue across research, clinical practice, and public health.
Share knowledge, advance research, and help shape the field through publishing, leadership opportunities, and professional service.
Keep pace with emerging science, evolving policy, critical issues affecting STI prevention, care, and public health practice.
A trusted voice for a complex and evolving field
For decades, ASTDA has played a central role in advancing sexually transmitted infection science, clinical practice, and public health policy. As the field has grown more interdisciplinary, and the policy landscape more complex, ASTDA has remained a steady, trusted presence for professionals working at the intersection of research, care, and prevention.
Today, that role is more important than ever. Rapid changes in funding, shifting public health priorities, and evolving scientific understanding demand rigorous evidence. They also require thoughtful leadership and coordination. ASTDA helps the STI community navigate these challenges by convening experts, elevating high-quality research, and creating spaces where science and policy can inform one another.
By bringing people together around shared standards, shared knowledge, and shared purpose, ASTDA helps ensure that STI science, care, and policy continue to move forward—grounded in evidence and guided by collaboration.
Bring your expertise to the table
Progress does not happen in isolation. It happens when researchers, clinicians, and public health leaders bring their knowledge, experience, and commitment to a shared purpose.
ASTDA is where that collaboration takes shape.
Your professional voice belongs here.