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HIV Invited Speaker Session: Social, Political & Cultural Aspects - ‘Reassembling' the Social Domain in the HIV Epidemic - Panel

Tracks
Track 3
Monday, August 29, 2022
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Minyama 3

Speaker

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Professor Lisa McDaid
Director, Institute For Social Science Research
ISSR

HIV ‘triumphalism’ and the social and political challenges to ending the HIV epidemic

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Biography

Professor Lisa McDaid is Director of the Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland. Her research has explored how to improve health at the community level via strengths-based approaches and is grounded in an understanding of how the social determinants of health shape experiences of biomedical HIV prevention.
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Dr. Stephen Molldrem
Assistant Professor
The University Of Texas Medical Branch At Galveston

Remaking HIV surveillance in the era of treatment and prevention

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Biography

Stephen Molldrem is an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in the Institute of Bioethics and Health Humanities. He is an ethnographer situated mainly in Science and Technology Studies. His research focuses on ethical and socio-technical issues related to digital public health and pathogen genomics.
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Dr Dean Murphy
Senior Research Fellow
ARCSHS, La Trobe University

Collaboration and the Performativity of Research

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Video / Recording

Biography

Dean Murphy is a Research Fellow at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, and at the Alfred Hospital and Central Clinical School, Monash University. His work focuses on understandings of HIV diagnosis, the use of HIV biomedical prevention technologies, experiences of sexual health and well-being, and the meanings of drug consumption among people with LGBTQ experience.
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Professor Marsha Rosengarten
Professor
Goldsmiths University of London

What constitutes the social domain and who decides

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Biography

Marsha Rosengarten is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of ‘HIV Interventions: Biomedicine and the Traffic in Information and Flesh,’ co-author with Mike Michael of ‘Innovation and Biomedicine: Ethics, Evidence and Expectation in HIV’ and co-editor with Alex Wilkie and Martin Savransky of ‘Speculative Research: The Lure of Possible Futures’
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Dr Edwina Wright
Senior Specialist
Alfred Health

The social and political life of the ‘clinic’

4:00 PM - 5:15 PM

Biography

Associate Professor Edwina Wright is an infectious disease physician at the Alfred Hospital, Monash Central Clinical School. She is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Peter Doherty Institute and Honorary Principal Fellow at the Burnet Institute. Her research interests include HIV prevention, HIV cure and HIV dementia. Dr Wright was awarded an Order of Australia for her work in HIV Medicine and Research in 2021.

Chairperson

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Kane Race
Professor, University Of Sydney
University of Sydney

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