Session C: Efforts to Enhance HCV Diagnosis and Testing
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| Wednesday, September 19, 2018 |
| 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM |
| Sala II |
Speaker
Mr Ned Latham
MBBS(Hons)/BMedSc(Hons) student
Burnet Institute
Client And Staff Perspectives On Point-Of-Care Hepatitis C Testing For People Attending Needle Syringe Programs
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMBiography
Ned is a research assistant and final year medical student. In 2017, he completed an honours thesis which examined the acceptability of point-of-care hepatitis C testing at needle syringe programs. Ned’s other areas of interest include sexual health, patient safety, and consumer advocacy.
Dr. Giang Le Minh
Department Chair
Hanoi Medical University
Factors Associated With HCV Testing Among People Who Inject Drugs In An Urban Setting In Vietnam
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMBiography
Le Minh Giang is a professor in Global Health at Hanoi Medical University. Supported by grants from NIH, CDC US, ANRS, MdM and WHO, his research focus on reducing consequences of substance abuse and sexual risks, including Hepatitis infections. He also directs the Viet Nam-HIV Addiction Technology Transfer Center (V-HATTC)
Prof Matt Hickman
Professor In Public Health
Population Health Sciences, Bristol Medical School
Hepcatt (Hepatitis C Assessment To Treatment Trial) In Primary Care: A Cluster RCT Of Whether A Complex Intervention Based On Risk Prediction Algorithm Tool And Education Can Increase Testing And Diagnosis Of HCV In Primary Care
2:30 PM - 2:45 PMBiography
Professor Matt Hickman is Head of Population Health Sciences at Bristol Medical School, UK
Miss Angela McBride
Project Co-ordinator
Out Well-being, Harmless Project
Linking Hepatitis C Infection People Who Inject Drugs To Treatment And Care, South Africa
2:45 PM - 2:50 PMBiography
Project Coordinator of HARMless, a harm reduction project based in Pretoria, South Africa, for People Who Inject Drugs (PWID). South African Network of People who Use Drugs (SANPUD) secretariat. BSocSc in Anthropology
Ms Julia Enkelmann
Fellow Applied Epidemiology
Robert Koch Institute
High Prevalence Of Current And Past Hepatitis C Virus Infections Among New Injectors Found In A Cross-Sectional Study In Germany, 2011-2014: Missed Opportunities For Counselling And Testing
2:50 PM - 2:55 PMBiography
Julia Enkelmann is a medical doctor. She has received a Master of Public Health and is currently enrolled in the Postgraduate Training for Applied Epidemiology at the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, which is associated with the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology organised by ECDC.
Professor Carla Treloar
Scientia Professor, Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre
UNSW Sydney
The National Stigma Indicator Project: Key Findings and Lessons Regarding People Living With HCV and People Who Inject Drugs
2:55 PM - 3:00 PMBiography
Carla Treloar is Director of the Centre for Social Research in Health and the Social Policy Research Centre, UNSW Sydney.
Dr. Brianna Norton
Assistant Professor
Montefiore Medical Center
Despite High Risk Behaviors, Including Chemsex, Barriers Exist for HCV Testing in MSM Throughout India
3:00 PM - 3:05 PMBiography
Dr. Norton is an assistant professor of medicine in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Her clinical work includes the treatment of HIV, HCV and opioid dependency. She conducts research to improve HCV care and treatment for people who inject drugs.
Luliia Novak
Senior Research Program Officer
The International Charitable Foundation “Alliance for Public Health”
People Who Inject Drugs Have Inequitable Chance To Be HCV Tested
3:05 PM - 3:10 PMBiography
Iuliia Novak, Master of Public Health.
8 years of experience in HIV:
1.monitoring and evaluation of harm reduction programs (NGO);
2.HIV national program implementation (Ministry of Health);
3.HIV/HCV/TB research.
Dr Alisa Pedrana
Senior Research Fellow
Burnet Institute
Hepatitis C Testing, Treatment Uptake And Sustained Virologic Response Among Gay And Bisexual Men With Hepatitis C And HIV Co-Infection In Melbourne, Australia
3:10 PM - 3:15 PMBiography
Research assistant with a focus on STI and blood-borne virus epidemiology and surveillance.
Chair
Jude Byrne
HCV /BBV/STI Education Prevention Program
AIVL
Ryan Westergaard
Associate Professor
University Of Wisconsin School Of Medicine And Public Health
