2B. HIV&AIDS Abstract Session: Epidemiology, prevention & public health: Increasing testing and prevention
Tracks
Track 2
Monday, September 15, 2025 |
11:05 AM - 12:35 PM |
Speaker
Miss Zara Boulton
National Project Officer
Thorne Harbour Health
CONNECTing communities to rapid HIV self-testing kits through vending machines: An Australian roll-out
Biography
Zara Boulton is the National Project Officer at Thorne Harbour Health. Utilising her decade of experience in LGBTIQA+ public health research, public speaking, and advocacy, Zara is responsible for delivering the largest HIV rapid-self-testing vending machine globally. This project, known as CONNECT, will be implemented nationally across all Australian jurisdictions.
Ms Ying Zhang
PhD candidate
Monash University
Preferences of men who have sex with men towards the distribution of HIV self-test kits through social networks: A discrete choice experiment
Biography
Ying is a PhD candidate at Monash University, Australia. Her PhD is on novel diagnostics for the control of HIV and STIs, with a particular focus on HIV self-testing among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men.
A/prof Nick Scott
Head, Modelling & Biostatistics
Burnet Institute
Optimising annual investment in mixed HIV testing strategies in Australia to advance virtual elimination of HIV by 2030: an allocative efficiency analysis
Biography
Associate Professor Nick Scott is the Head of Modelling and Biostatistics at the Burnet Institute. His team uses modelling to determine how investment in HIV interventions can be optimally allocated to achieve the greatest impact.
Associate Professor Iryna Zablotska-Manos
Associate Professor, Program Director
Sydney Medical School, University Of Sydney
ADAPTPREP STUDY: WHY DO PREP USERS WHO OPTED FOR PREP FOLLOW-UP AT GPS KEEP RETURNING TO WESTERN SYDNEY SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE?
Biography
A/Prof Iryna Zablotska-Manos, Director of the Postgraduate Program in Sexual and Reproductive Health at the University of Sydney, leads PrEP research at Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre. With over 25 years in HIV epidemiology and prevention, she heads the ADAPTPrEP study, including a cohort of PrEP users under GP care.
Mr Tyson Arapali
Senior Project Officer
Kirby Institute
The power of peers: evaluating the effectiveness of peer-led HIV and sexual health education workshops for gay, bisexual, queer, and other men who have sex with men
Biography
Tyson Arapali is a Senior Project Officer 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 Karina Reeves
‘Even Me?’: Reframing HIV prevention for WA’s diverse communities
Biography
Karina is an IUHPE Registered Health Promotion Practitioner and is Coordinator of Health Promotion at WAAC (formerly the WA AIDS Council). Karina holds a BSc in Health Promotion, is Vice President of the WA branch of the Australian Health Promotion Association and committee member of the Bloom-RSE Advocacy Group.
Mr Anik Ray
Clinical Nurse Consultant 3
Sydney Sexual Health Centre
Community-based setting reaches more people who are testing & PrEP-naïve than clinic-based setting among recently arrived overseas born people at-risk of HIV in Sydney, New South Wales
Biography
Anik is a clinical nurse consultant at Sydney Seuxal Health Centre with a keen interest in health care IT systems, innovation, and research.
