11C. ASRH Abstract Session: Social, political & cultural aspects: Social media education in research and translation
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| Wednesday, September 16, 2026 |
| 11:20 AM - 12:50 PM |
| Lake Room |
Speaker
Prof Jennifer Power
Deputy Director
ARCSHS La Trobe
Sexual health education and service access young people with disability or chronic conditions or who are neurodiverse
11:30 AM - 11:42 AMBiography
Jennifer Power is Deputy Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University where she leads a program of research on sexual health and wellbeing.
Prof Jennifer Power
Deputy Director
ARCSHS La Trobe
Intimate partner violence and unwanted sex among young people in Australia
11:42 AM - 11:54 AMBiography
Jennifer Power is the Deputy Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University where she leads a program of research on sexual health and wellbeing.
Ms Maddison Stratten
Sexual Health Promotion Officer
ISLHD HIV & Related Programs Unit
Lived experiences On The Couch: bridging a gap & shifting attitudes
11:54 AM - 12:06 PMBiography
Maddison Stratten is a sexual health promotion officer with the Caddyshack Project in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District HIV and Related Programs (HARP) unit. Maddy is passionate about communicating sexual and reproductive health, consent and relationships content in accessible, engaging ways across digital platforms.
Ms Winifred Adamson
Sexual Health Promotion Officer
ISLHD HIV & Related Programs Unit
Co-Presenter: Lived experiences On The Couch: bridging a gap & shifting attitudes
11:54 AM - 12:06 PMBiography
Winifred Adamson is a sexual health promotion officer with the Caddyshack Project in the Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District HIV and Related Programs (HARP) unit. Winifred is passionate about creating accessible, engaging and evidence-informed education that empowers people to develop healthy attitudes towards sexual and reproductive health, consent, and relationships.
Professor Tinashe Dune
Professor | Head of Department, Psychology
Charles Darwin University
EMPOWERING AGENCY: A YOUTH-DETERMINED MODEL FOR MIGRANT AND REFUGEE SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS IN WESTERN SYDNEY
12:06 PM - 12:18 PMBiography
Professor Tinashe Dune is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology at Charles Darwin University, and an Adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University. Her research spans clinical, social, and cultural psychology, with a focus on sexual and reproductive health, equity, and the wellbeing of marginalized populations.
MS Zihan Xu
PhD Student
University Of Melbourne
What Are People Saying About DoxyPEP? A Topic-Based Analysis of Reddit Discussions
12:18 PM - 12:30 PMBiography
Zihan Xu is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne. She received her Master’s in Health Informatics from Weill Cornell Medicine. Her research focuses on natural language processing, multimodal large language models, and digital health, particularly analyzing sexual health discourse to bridge clinical evidence and real-world public perception.
Mr Chris Williams
Program Manager — Emen8
Thorne Harbour Health
Co-presenter: Doxy-PEP: Do it after you do it – igniting a national conversation about syphilis prevention
12:35 PM - 12:40 PMBiography
Chris is co-founder of 'PrEP'D For Change' — Australia's first grassroots PrEP community, supporting people online since 2015. He's spent over a decade in health communications and is now the Program Manager for emen8, a national HIV and sexual health education initiative delivered in partnership between Thorne Harbour Health and ACON.
Mr Jonathan Weiss
Principal Planner
ACON
Doxy-PEP: Do it after you do it – igniting a national conversation about syphilis prevention
12:30 PM - 12:35 PMBiography
Jonathan Weiss is the Principal Planner for HIV and Sexual Health campaigns at ACON. He manages Ending HIV as well as Emen8, leading his team to produce campaigns and content across a range of HIV and sexual health topics.
ASRH Conference
11C. Questions & Discussion
12:35 PM - 12:50 PMBiography
Session Chair
Evelyn Jane MacDonald
Senior Research Fellow/Sexual Health Physician n
National Centre For Women's Health Research/ Te Tātai Hauora O Hine
Davoud Pourmarzi
Senior Lecturer
Australian National University, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health