6A. HIV&AIDS Abstract Session: Epidemiology, prevention & public health: Living with HIV, surveillance, inequities in outcomes
Tracks
| Tuesday, September 15, 2026 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
Speaker
Dr Koson Tony Sriamporn
Research Fellow
University of Auckland
“Just a hole… in the healthcare system?” Developing a social marketing strategy to improve survey participation among gender-diverse communities: lessons from New Zealand’s national HIV behavioural surveillance programme
Biography
Koson Tony Sriamporn is a Research Fellow at the School of Population Health (University of Auckland, NZ) and an executive member of the NZ Sexual Health Society. He is a health psychologist researcher interested in HIV and STI prevention practices, blood donation, quantitative methodologies, and psychometric development.
Professor Graham Brown
Professor
Australian Research Centre In Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Australia
The PozQoL Network – building new insights and partnerships to strengthen cross-sectoral HIV care
Biography
Graham leads a research program at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society looking at the role of peer programs, and leads the research partnership that developed PozQoL, a validated quality of life scale for people with HIV, and trialled its implementation in peer, community and clinical settings.
Aaron Cogle
Executive Director
NAPWHA
Ms Alexandra Miller
Senior Project Coordinator
The Kirby Institute
Dr Dean Murphy
Senior Research Fellow
ARCSHS, La Trobe University
WHEN PrEP BREAKS DOWN: EXPERIENCES OF PREVIOUS PrEP USE AMONG PEOPLE RECENTLY DIAGNOSED WITH HIV (2023–2026)
Biography
Senior Research Fellow and convenor of the blood-borne viruses research theme at ARCSHS (the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society) at La Trobe University.
Dr Skye McGregor
Epidemiologist
The Kirby Institute
Demographic characteristics and time to treatment First Nations peoples diagnosed with HIV: The Australian National HIV Data Linkage Study
Biography
Professor James Ward is a Pitjantjatjara and Narungga 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.
Dr Allison Carter
Senior Lecturer
The Kirby Institute
The social and health characteristics of women living with hiv in Australia: Findings from a sentinel surveillance network, 2010–2025
Biography
Dr. Allison Carter is NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow and Head of the Sexual Health and Reproductive Equity Research
Group at the Kirby Institute. Her research program aims to strengthen responses to gender, social justice, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.