HIV Poster Tour: Epidemiology, Prevention and Public Health

Tracks
Track 2
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
Exhibition Hall

Details

Facilitator:
Chris Camacho, ASHM Health


Speaker

Miss Caitlin Wilshin
Senior Project Officer
Western Australian Department Of Health

The path towards virtual elimination: An epidemiological review of HIV in WA from 2019-2023 and insights for future approaches

12:45 PM - 12:50 PM

Biography

Caitlin Wilshin is a Senior Project Officer with the Surveillance and Disease Control Program in the Communicable Disease Control Directorate, where she oversees the surveillance of HIV notifications in WA.
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Mr Curtis Chan
Research Associate
Kirby Institute

Accounting for biomedical HIV prevention in measuring HIV risk: an analysis of national HIV diagnoses and behavioural surveillance among men who have sex with men in Australia 2012-2022

12:55 PM - 1:00 PM

Biography

Curtis Chan is a research associate and PhD student at the Kirby Institute in the University of New South Wales. His work focuses on HIV prevention in gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men including PrEP awareness, PrEP uptake, and HIV/STI testing
Mr Samir Burhan
Honours Student
UNSW

One-third of Australian gay and bisexual men prefer long-acting injectable Cabotegravir over oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP): Results from a cross-sectional survey

1:00 PM - 1:05 PM

Biography

Samir Burhan is currently a fifth year medical student at the University of New South Wales, with a particular interest in sexual health and HIV. He previously conducted research at the Kirby Institute as an Honours student on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis.
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Dr Laila Khawar
Research Fellow
Kirby Institute, UNSW

Evaluating progress towards elimination of vertical transmission of HIV in Australia

1:05 PM - 1:10 PM

Biography

Dr Laila Khawar is a postdoctoral research fellow and epidemiologist at the Kirby Institute, UNSW. Her work focuses on the surveillance of transfusion transmissible infections, and tracking progress toward elimination of sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses in Australia
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Mr Tyson Arapali
Senior Project Officer
Kirby Institute

Identifying barriers and facilitators to oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis use in high-income economies: A scoping review using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research

1:10 PM - 1:15 PM

Biography

Tyson Arapali has worked in HIV prevention and research for 7 years. He is a researcher based at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. His work focuses on the determinants of PrEP use and how they can inform the development of innovative programs to increase PrEP uptake and retention.

Poster Tour Chair

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Christopher Camacho
Program Manager
ASHM

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