Cross Track Session: HIV Mobility and Migration
Tracks
Tuesday, August 30, 2022 |
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM |
Minyama 3 |
Speaker
Q&A Discussion
Dr Gemma Crawford
Academic
Curtin University
Overarching presentation on the data needs for this area of work
3:30 PM - 3:42 PMBiography
Dr Gemma Crawford is a Senior Lecturer in Curtin’s School of Population Health. For 20 years, she has worked across public health practice, advocacy, leadership, policy, teaching and research in the community, private, government and tertiary sectors. Since 2015, with colleagues, she has led the national Community of Practice for Action on HIV and Mobility. Her community face, applied and social research explores diversity and difference, often in perceived ‘challenging contexts’.
Dr Roanna Lobo is a Senior Lecturer in Curtin’s School of Population Health. Prior to that she was Manager of SIREN (the Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Applied Research & Evaluation Network). She conducts applied research using participatory methodologies to improve health outcomes for marginalised and vulnerable populations and to increase research and evaluation capacity of community-based organisations in the sexual health and blood borne virus sector.
Dr Daniel Vujcich
Manager
Curtin University
Results From MiBSS
3:42 PM - 3:54 PMBiography
Dr Vujcich has a DPhil in Public Health from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He currently manages the Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Research and Evaluation Network at Curtin University and has extensive research and evaluation experience
Dr Skye McGregor
Epidemiologist, Lead Surveillance Innovation Group
Kirby Institute
Issues relating to HIV, mobility and migration in national HIV surveillance
3:54 PM - 4:06 PMBiography
Dr Skye McGregor is an epidemiologist whose work focuses on surveillance and prevention of sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses. She leads production of the national sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses annual surveillance reports for Australia. These reports provide a comprehensive analysis of HIV, viral hepatitis and sexually transmissible infections in Australia.
Dr David Carter
Faculty of Law and Justice
University of New South Wales
PLHIV Experiences of Migration and the Legal Needs of PLHIV
4:06 PM - 4:18 PMBiography
David Carter is a lawyer and legal academic in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. His expertise is in medical and health law, with a focus on public health and criminal law. He is an NHMRC Early Career Fellow and board member of the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre.
Mr. Jimmy Yu Hsiang Chen
Community Advocate
National Association of People with HIV Australia (NAPWHA)
PLHIV perspective
4:18 PM - 4:23 PMBiography
Jimmy Yu-Hsiang Chen has been working closely with the MSM community since he started in his role as a peer educator at ACON’s a[TEST] clinic. Currently he also working at NAPWHA as a Community Advocate, Jimmy’s role is to engage, facilitate and better connect the Asian PLHIV community with HIV organisations in Australia. His insight of HIV and HIV sector have its unique experiences, combine with his culture diverse background.
Mrs Zhihong Gu
Program Manager
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
Service organisation perspective
4:23 PM - 4:28 PMBiography
Zhihong Gu is the program manager for the BBV & Sexual Health Program at the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland. She has been in this role for more than 15 years working with a range of culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Queensland.
Chairperson
Zhihong Gu
Program Manager
Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland
Ben Riley
Policy and Public Affairs Manager
ASHM Health