Session Q: Proffered Paper Session 05
Tracks
Track 2
Tuesday, May 31, 2022 |
2:30 PM - 3:35 PM |
Ballroom 3 |
Speaker
Ms Jeanette Tibbs
Community Nurse
Hepatitis Queensland
Learnings from a community outreach nurse-Improving engagement and HCV care coordination for a hard-to-reach cohort in community corrections
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Jeanette is the Community Outreach Nurse with Hepatitis Queensland. She provides support to General Practice and works across initiatives such as the Be Liver Smart project. She has extensive experience across the nursing sector having worked for eight years in community practice after working as a midwife.
Dr Lise Lafferty
Senior Research Fellow
The Kirby Institute
The role of point-of-care hepatitis C RNA testing at prison intake for reducing barriers to the hepatitis C care cascade
2:46 PM - 3:01 PMBiography
Dr Lise Lafferty is a Research Fellow at UNSW Sydney with positions at Centre for Social Research in Health and The Kirby Institute. Her research interests include lived experiences of people living with chronic illnesses (with a focus on people in prison living with HCV) and addressing barriers to care.
Charles Henderson
Community Engagement Coordinator
Brunet Institute
HEP CURED: A Co-designed Health Promotion Partnership Program and Strategic Messaging Campaign To Increase Hepatitis C Treatment Access For People Who Inject Drugs
3:02 PM - 3:17 PMBiography
Charles has worked in Australia as Programs Manager / Acting EO at Harm Reduction Victoria and, since 2018, as Deputy CEO at NUAA. In his native New Zealand, he spent more than 15 years improving the health and well-being of, and developing effective peer-led services for, people who inject drugs nationwide. His main passion is harm reduction and dedicates his entire professional career to promoting the lives and human rights of people who use and inject illicit drugs, including the championing of low-barrier, accessible drug treatment options.
Ms Maria McMahon
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Hepatitis NSW
HEP CURED: A Co-designed Health Promotion Partnership Program and Strategic Messaging Campaign To Increase Hepatitis C Treatment Access For People Who Inject Drugs
3:02 PM - 3:17 PMBiography
Ms Bianca Prain
Manager
NSW Ministry Of Health
HEP CURED: A Co-designed Health Promotion Partnership Program and Strategic Messaging Campaign To Increase Hepatitis C Treatment Access For People Who Inject Drugs
3:02 PM - 3:17 PMBiography
Ms Esha Leyden
Peer Harm Reduction Worker
Queensland Injectors Health Network Limited
QuIHN Hepatitis C Treatment and management Program
3:18 PM - 3:23 PMBiography
Esha Leyden is a Peer Harm Reduction Worker at the Queensland Injectors Health Network. They provide support and education to people on hepatitis C and the safer use of injecting drugs. They have lived experience of hepatitis C and treatment and know how to support our clients with Hep C
Mrs Nellie He
Bi-Lingual Community Health Worker - Chinese
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
Filling gaps for patients diagnosed with chronic hepatitis B from a Chinese speaking background
3:24 PM - 3:29 PMBiography
Lianying (Nellie) He is a Chinese bilingual health worker at Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland. She completed her a Bachelor Degree of Nursing in China and a Master Degree of Social Worker in Australia.
Mr Tam Do
Bilingual Community Health Worker
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
Culturally appropriate education model for people living with hepatitis B or C from the Vietnamese community in Queensland
3:30 PM - 3:35 PMBiography
Tam has been working with Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland as the Vietnamese Community Bilingual Health Worker for nearly 3 years. He obtained his Bachelor Degree of Medicine in Vietnamese, and Bachelor of Nursing and Master of Public Health in Australia.
Chair
Alison Marshall
Postdoctoral Fellow
Unsw / The Kirby Institute
Thomas Wright
Harm Reduction Coordinator
Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health Network
Staff
Jeremy Cott
Senior Event Coordinator
ASHM Health
Sam Williamson
Senior Event Manager
Ashm
TP Operator
Karen Armstrong
Touchpoint
Touchpoint 1 Tablet
Touchpoint 2 Tablet
Erica Zarins
Touchpoint
