Poster Highlights 5: ASRH Social, political and cultural aspects
Tracks
| Wednesday, September 16, 2026 |
| 1:00 PM - 1:45 PM |
| Exhibition Hall |
Details
Poster Boards: 2 - 10
Note that poster highlights are not recorded.
Speaker
Ms Eleni Gabrielides
Manager Health Promotion
Meridian
Cover Yourself in Canberra: a five-year reflection on humour and cultural relevance in sexual health promotion
1:00 PM - 1:05 PMBiography
Eleni Gabrielides is a Health Promotion Manager at Meridian in Canberra, with six years’ experience in sexual health promotion. She focuses on creating inclusive, community-driven initiatives that support engagement, reduce stigma, and improve access to care.
Miss Kate Toomey
Sexual And Reproductive Health Project Officer
CERSH, University of Melbourne
Northeast Roadshow
1:05 PM - 1:10 PMBiography
Kate is a project officer at the Centre for Excellence in Rural Sexual Health, University of Melbourne. Kate designs and coordinates sexual health promotion initiatives for regional and rural communities, with a strong focus on workforce development and priority populations, including culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) and First Nations communities.
Ms Eleni Gabrielides
Manager Health Promotion
Meridian
You CAN ask that: Using real-world misinformation to inform sexual health education and engagement.
1:10 PM - 1:15 PMBiography
Eleni Gabrielides is a Health Promotion Manager at Meridian in Canberra, with six years’ experience in sexual health promotion. She focuses on creating inclusive, community-driven initiatives that support engagement, reduce stigma, and improve access to care.
Mx Micha Couell
Project Officer - Word on the Sheets
ACON
Eroticising evidence: sex, pleasure and desire as portals into queer sexual and reproductive health promotion
1:15 PM - 1:20 PMBiography
Micha Couell (she/they) is a Project Officer at ACON working on Word on the Sheets, Australia's first digital sexual and reproductive health resource for LGBTQ+ women, trans and gender diverse communities. Across nearly five years in the sector they have worked in ACON's harm reduction program, at SWOP NSW, and in board governance. Micha is also a multidisciplinary artist who advocates for storytelling and community collaboration as pathways into health education. Their approach is creative but rigorous: evidence-based, methodical, and always interrogating the systems that hold inequity in place. Their practice centres curiosity, pleasure, joy, consent and the esoteric as tools for empowerment.
Mr Leon Huxtable
Schools And Community Educator
Sexual Health Victoria
Sexual & Reproductive Health Australia’s (SRHA) Recommendations for Pornography Education
1:20 PM - 1:25 PMBiography
The Sexual and Reproductive Health Australia Educator Group consists of educations from the Sexual and Reproductive Organisations in each state and territory. The Educator Group continues to work towards our overarching goal: Optimal sexual and reproductive health and rights for everyone, everywhere.
Ms Jingfei Wu
Postgraduate Student
The Kirby Institute
EXPERIENCES OF REPRODUCTIVE COERCION AND ABUSE AMONG WOMEN: QUALITATIVE FINDINGS FROM THE THIRD AUSTRALIAN STUDY OF HEALTH AND RELATIONSHIPS
1:25 PM - 1:30 PMBiography
Jingfei is a research nurse coordinator based in Melbourne with a background in nursing and medical law. She is currently completing a Master of Public Health at UNSW and works with Dr Carter and A/Prof Nathan on research exploring Australian women’s experiences of reproductive abuse and coercion.
Mx Ellen Sargent
Rapid Team Leader
Queensland Positive People
From vision to impact: 12 years of Brisbane’s peer-led RAPID clinic
1:30 PM - 1:35 PMBiography
Ellen Sargent (BSc, BA) has worked in the HIV/STI peer testing, prevention and health promotion space for 5+ years. They are passionate about community involvement and empowerment.
He/him Thisanut Kaewnukul
Community Health Promotion Officer
Acon Health
Doxycycline Post-Exposure Prophylaxis (Doxy-PEP) Awareness, Access Gaps and Health System Navigation Barriers Among Gay, Bisexual and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men from Multicultural Backgrounds in Australia
1:35 PM - 1:40 PMBiography
Bright is a community health promotion officer for the Asian Gay, Bi+, and Queer Men project at ACON. Bright leads community outreach, community building and research, focusing on culturally inclusive health initiatives and connecting with Asian Gay, Bi+, and Queer Men in Sydney.
Poster Highlight Facilitator
Emmalee Ford
Acting Director of Research
Family Planning Australia