SH Proffered Papers: Epidemiology, Prevention & Health Promotion
Tracks
Behavioural research
Biostatistics
Drug consumption
Epidemiology
Gender and/or sexuality
Health services and systems
Other
Policy
Prevention
Priority populations
Public health
Reproductive health
Sexually Transmitted Infections
Wednesday, August 31, 2022 |
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM |
Minyama 4 |
Speaker
Mr Edwin Dyson
Research Assistant
University Of Queensland, Poche Centre For Indigenous Health
Illicit Drug Use and Sexual Risk Behaviours: Results of GOANNA1 and GOANNA2 Surveys
11:30 AM - 11:42 AMBiography
Edwin Dyson is a senior research assistant at the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health. He additionally studies his Master of Public Health at the University of Queensland. He has a passion for epidemiology and practical applications for in it the real word
Dr Daniel Vujcich
Manager
Curtin University
Findings From the First National Migrant Blood-Borne Virus and Sexual Health Survey 2020-2021
11:42 AM - 11:54 AMBiography
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 Catherine Brooker
Medical Doctor And Clinical Educator
Sexual Health Quarters
Intimate Partner Violence and Reproductive Coercion Prevalence in Perth, Western Australia: A Cross-Sectional Study in an Urban Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinic
11:54 AM - 12:06 PMBiography
Dr Brooker is a Medical Doctor and Clinical Educator and previous Medical Director from Sexual Health Quarters in Perth, Western Australia. She is a GP with experience in procedural obstetrics, rural health and homeless health care. She represents a passionate team of clinicians from SHQ.
Dr Sylvia Kauer
Research Fellow
Australian Research Centre For Sex, Health And Society
Young People’s Experiences of School-Based Relationship and Sexuality Education: Findings from the 2021 Secondary Schools and Sexual Health Survey
12:06 PM - 12:18 PMBiography
Dr Sylvia Kauer works on the National Survey of Secondary Students and Sexual Health at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society. Her areas of interest include young people's health, sexual health and wellbeing, technology and statistics.
Prof Martin Holt
Professor
Centre for Social Research in Health
Acceptability of Different STI Prevention Strategies in a National Sample of Australian Gay and Bisexual Men: Results From the PrEPARE Project 2021
12:18 PM - 12:30 PMBiography
Martin’s expertise is in HIV prevention, particularly with gay and bisexual men. He studies trends in sexual behaviour, and conducts social and behavioural research on HIV, sexual health and the use of biomedical prevention methods. For the last three years his team has been assessing the impact of COVID-19 on gay and bisexual men’s behaviour, and now his team is setting up a project to understand community perceptions of and reactions to monkeypox, including willingness to be vaccinated and change behaviour.
Chairperson
Valerie Delpech
Head Of Communicable Diseases
NSW Health
Jane Goller
Senior Research Fellow
University Of Melbourne