12C. ASRH Affiliate Organisation Session: Is transformational change in STI control possible using a program science framework: Insights from the ENDING and IMPACT STI projects
Tracks
Track 3
| Wednesday, September 17, 2025 |
| 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM |
| City Room 3&4 (Upper Level) |
Details
This session explores the approach taken by a multidisciplinary research team — to co-create multilevel interventions aimed at reducing the incidence of STIs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
These projects apply a program science framework designed to respond to inequity existing in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, as well as intersecting factors that shape STI incidence and prevalence in communities.
This session will deliver work done to date, to co create interventions with communities, gathering of information to shape the multilevel interventions, our proposed evaluation framework, and ethical dimensions and methodological approaches underpinning intervention design. Presenters will share how interventions are being ethically and methodologically developed at three core levels of influence: community and individuals, health services, and at a system/structural level.
This session contributes to national conversations on the ethical and effective design of STI responses grounded in Indigenous leadership, that is responsive to social and cultural determinants of health, and embedded within existing service and governance structures.
Speaker
Professor James Ward
Director & Professorial Research Fellow
The Poche Centre | University Of Queensland
Introducing ENDING and IMPACT STI Projects, as well as program science and Multilevel interventions
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Professor James Ward is a Pitjantjatjara and Nukunu man, an infectious diseases epidemiologist and a national leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research. He is currently the Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at The University of Queensland.
Mrs Helena King
Research Fellow and PhD Candidate
The Poche Centre | University Of Queensland
Outcomes of a global systematic review of multilevel Interventions used in STI control
2:15 PM - 2:20 PMBiography
Mr Jethro Romer
Senior Principal Health Coordinator
The Poche Centre | University Of Queensland
Community Led Co-Design in Practice: An Example of Best Practice
2:20 PM - 2:35 PMBiography
Dr Aletha Ward
Senior Research Fellow
The Poche Centre | University Of Queensland
Gathering all the information needed to co-create and evaluate multilevel interventions
2:35 PM - 2:55 PMBiography
Mr Robert Palm
Senior Community Engagement Officer
The Poche Centre | University Of Queensland
Panel Member: From Design to Delivery – Ethical Pathways for Implementation
2:55 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Professor James Ward
Director & Professorial Research Fellow
The Poche Centre | University Of Queensland
Panel Member: From Design to Delivery – Ethical Pathways for Implementation
2:55 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Dr Aletha Ward
Senior Research Fellow
The Poche Centre | University Of Queensland
Panel Member: From Design to Delivery – Ethical Pathways for Implementation
2:55 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Session Chair
James Ward
Director & Professorial Research Fellow
The Poche Centre | University Of Queensland
