Plenary 2: Plenary Orals
| Wednesday, October 7, 2026 |
| 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM |
| Zenit + Nadir |
Speaker
Professor Loren Brener
Deputy Director
Centre For Social Research In Health, UNSW Sydney
Navigating shame and stigma for clients attending AOD services: The role of lived experience workers
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMBiography
Loren is a Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW. Her research focuses on stigma and discrimination experienced by people living with blood-borne viruses such as HIV and viral hepatitis and the impact of this on health outcomes and quality of care.
Dr Adelina Artenie
Assistant professor
University of Montreal
Substance use-related stigma and injection-related bacterial infections among people who inject drugs in Montreal
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Adelina is Assistant professor at the Université de Montréal and Researcher at the Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal. Her research interests are on the prevention of hepatitis C, HIV, overdose and other drug-related harms using epidemiology and mathematical modelling.
Chairperson
Mia Biondi
Assistant Professor
York University
Martin Kåberg
Physician
Stockholm Centre for Dependency Disorders/Karolinska Institutet
