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Plenary Session - Friday

Friday, October 15, 2021
8:55 AM - 10:30 AM

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Questions & Discussion

Questions & Discussion

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

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Ms Linda Montanari
Principal scientist
EUDA

Impact of COVID-19 on drug use and health services for people who use drugs

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

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Biography

Health sociologist, works as principal scientist at European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) since 2000. She coordinates the area of drugs and prison at the EMCDDA, with the objective to improve data availability and comparability on drug problem and drug related interventions in prison across European countries.
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Mr Matthew Bonn
Drug Culture Advisor
ChangeMark Research & Evaluation

Choice and flexibility for people who use drugs: Does COVID-19 show us the way

9:20 AM - 9:40 AM

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Biography

Matthew is the program coordinator with the Canadian Association of People Who Use Drugs. He's a board member of the International Network of Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users. Matthew was also on Canada’s 64th Canadian Delegation for CND. He is a current drug user and a formerly incarcerated person.
Dr Timothy Papaluca
Hepatology Fellow
St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne

The C-LINK Trial: A prospective randomised controlled trial showing than care-navigation post release from prisons increases linkage to hepatitis C care

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

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Biography

Tim is completing an PhD in hepatitis C at St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, which includes evaluation of models of care for hepatitis C treatment within and beyond the prison setting.
Dr Joanne Carson
Infectious disease and data scientist
Kirby Institute, UNSW

Hepatitis C virus reinfection following direct acting antiviral treatment in the prison setting: the SToP-C study

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

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Joanne Carson (BSc, MPH) is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney

Chair

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Charles Henderson
Community Engagement Coordinator and Student
Burnet Institute

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Natasha Martin
Professor
University Of California San Diego


Speaker - will not appear in Portal

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Matthew Bonn
Drug Culture Advisor
ChangeMark Research & Evaluation

Joanne Carson
Infectious disease and data scientist
Kirby Institute, UNSW

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Linda Montanari
Principal scientist
EUDA

Timothy Papaluca
Hepatology Fellow
St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne

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