3B. HIV Abstracts: Epidemiology, Prevention & Public Health

Tracks
Track 2
Monday, September 16, 2024
2:15 PM - 3:45 PM
C4.8

Details

Chairs:
Cherie Bennett, ASHM Health
Phillip Keen, Kirby Institute


Speaker

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Dr Denton Callander
Senior Research Fellow
Kirby Institute, UNSW

Decreasing HIV incidence among transgender people in Australia: A ten-year national clinical cohort study

2:15 PM - 2:27 PM

Biography

Denton Callander (he/him) and Teddy Cook (he/him) are researchers and activists focused on health equity and social justice for trans populations globally.
Prof Kathy Petoumenos
Professor
Kirby Institute

Socio-behavioural characteristics of women participating in the Cohort of Australian women with HIV (CLIO) Study

2:27 PM - 2:39 PM

Biography

Kathy is the Head of the Biostatistics and Databases Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. Her research area involves national and international observational cohort studies with a focus on ageing related comorbidities, and more recently focusing on health outcomes among women living with HIV.
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Dr Michael Traeger
Research Fellow
Burnet Institute

Giving it away: Evaluation of PrEPaccessNOW’s free PrEP coupon scheme

2:39 PM - 2:51 PM

Biography

Michael Traeger is a research fellow at the Burnet Institute with a focus on HIV and STI prevention and surveillance among priority populations.
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Mr Tyson Arapali
Senior Project Officer
Kirby Institute

To innovation and beyond: alternative oral PrEP service delivery models and policy, legal, and regulatory considerations for their implementation in Australia

2:51 PM - 3:03 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.
Ms Carol El-Hayek
Epidemiologist, Phd Candidate
Burnet Institute

Evaluating a machine learning based risk stratification model to identify people who have injected drugs for BBV/STI surveillance: a retrospective cohort study

3:03 PM - 3:08 PM

Biography

Carol El-Hayek is an epidemiologist with over a decade's experience managing BBV/STI surveillance systems and evaluating public health programs. Carol's PhD research explored the use of machine learning for enhanced surveillance methods.
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Dr James MacGibbon
Research Fellow
UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health

A novel HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) cascade to assess scale-up in Australia among gay and bisexual men: Results from national behavioural surveillance data, 2019–2023

3:08 PM - 3:13 PM

Biography

James MacGibbon (he/him) is a social and behavioural scientist at UNSW's Centre for Social Research in Health researching sexual health and wellbeing among gay men, bi+ and queer people.
HIV&AIDS 2024

Questions & Discussion

3:13 PM - 3:45 PM

Biography


Chair

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Cherie Bennett
Nursing Policy and Advocacy Lead
ASHM

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Phillip Keen
Senior Research Fellow
Kirby Institute

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