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HIV Symposium: Antiretroviral effects: enhancement and transformation

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Speaker

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Dr Dean Murphy
Senior Research Fellow
ARCSHS, La Trobe University

Consuming HIV antiretrovirals: Transforming risk, sex and the self

2:01 PM - 2:11 PM

Biography

Dean Murphy is a Research Fellow at the Kirby Institute, UNSW, and a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney. His work focuses on understandings of HIV diagnosis, the use of HIV biomedical prevention technologies, experiences of sexual health and well-being, and the meanings of drug consumption among people with LGBTQ experience. His book, Gay Men Pursuing Parenthood Through Surrogacy: Reconfiguring Kinship, was published in 2015.
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Prof Martin Holt
Professor
Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney

Imagined futures and unintended consequences in the making of PrEP

2:12 PM - 2:22 PM

Biography

Professor Martin Holt specialises in HIV prevention research with gay and bisexual men. He has worked at the Centre for Social Research in Health since 2003. Over the last 10 years he has researched the impact of biomedical HIV prevention on community norms, attitudes and practices.
Dr. Shana Hughes
Specialist
UCSF

Internet-based access to PrEP: A clinical-technological assemblage

2:23 PM - 2:33 PM

Biography

Shana D. Hughes is a Specialist at the University of California, San Francisco’s Center for AIDS Prevention Studies. Her research explores the construction of identity and health-related risks in the context of competing material, social/emotional, and symbolic priorities, and seeks to translate these insights into public health applications. In addition to telehealth, her recent work has focused on PrEP uptake and persistence, use of syphilis partner services in San Francisco, and non-compliant blood donation in the U.S. and South Africa.
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Dr. Stephen Molldrem
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology

Biomedical sexualities

2:34 PM - 2:44 PM

Biography

Stephen Molldrem is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology. He works at the intersection of sexuality studies, health studies, data studies, and bioethics. An ethnographer and health policy analyst, he has particular interests in public health surveillance, genomic epidemiology, and HIV/AIDS.
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Mr Chris Williams
Project Lead — Emen8 (Thorne Harbour Health) / Co-founder (PrEP’D For Change)
Thorne Harbour Health & PrEP’d For Change

Antiretroviral futures: Promoting PrEP to potential users

2:44 PM - 2:54 PM

Biography

Chris is the Project Lead for Emen8 — a partnership between Thorne Harbour Health and ACON promoting HIV and sexual health education nationally to MSM in digital environments. He is also a long-term PrEP user and co-founder of "PrEP'D For Change" — Australia's largest online PrEP support community.
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Professor Kane Race
Professor
University Of Sydney

Unimagining transmissibility

2:54 PM - 3:04 PM

Biography

Kane Race is a Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney. His work has explored embodied engagements with medicine across various different contexts including HIV, sexual practice; drugs and medication use. He is the author of Pleasure Consuming Medicine: The Queer Politics of Drugs (2009), Plastic Water (with Gay Hawkins and Emily Potter, 2015), and The Gay Science (2018).
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Mr Christopher Howard
Executive Programs Manager
Queensland Positive People

Unpacking assemblages: Effects of policies related to HIV antiretroviral therapy

3:05 PM - 3:15 PM

Biography

Chris Howard is living with HIV for 34 years. Chris has worked in the HIV treatment and care sector in Queensland for the past 22 years. Chris is Executive Programs Manager with Queensland Positive People responsible overseeing service delivery for the HIV treatment and management program.

Co-chair

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Jeanne Ellard
Research Fellow
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) La Trobe University

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Suzanne Fraser
Director
Australian Research Centre In Sex, Health And Society


Speaker

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Martin Holt
Professor
Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney

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Christopher Howard
Executive Programs Manager
Queensland Positive People

Shana Hughes
Specialist
UCSF

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Stephen Molldrem
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Irvine, Department of Anthropology

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Dean Murphy
Senior Research Fellow
ARCSHS, La Trobe University

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Kane Race
Professor
University Of Sydney

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Chris Williams
Project Lead — Emen8 (Thorne Harbour Health) / Co-founder (PrEP’D For Change)
Thorne Harbour Health & PrEP’d For Change


Support Staff

Brooke McClune
Touchpoint

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Linda Starke
Event Coordinator
ASHM

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