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Symposium 22 - Mobility / Migration

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Thursday, September 19, 2019
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Meeting Room 3

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Dr Nicholas Medland
Researcher
Kirby UNSW

Treatment and PrEP for migrant/ mobile populations: What are the emerging issues around Treatment, PrEP acceptability, including understandings around accessing treatment and initiating PrEP among these key priority populations?

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM

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Dr Chris Bourne
Medical Adviser, Centre for Population Health
NSW Health

Health service, peer and/or structural and policy interventions to respond to sexual health for international students

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

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Dr Christopher Bourne is • Head of NSW STI Programs Unit at the Centre for Population Health, NSW Health; • Senior Staff Specialist at Sydney Sexual Health Centre, and • Conjoint Associate Professor at the Kirby Institute, Sexual Health Program, UNSW. His interests include population health and health service implementation, research and evaluation related to STI and HIV strategy with a focus on priority populations and settings. He has worked in sexual health medicine for 30 years in urban, rural and remote Australian settings; provided consultancies in South East Asia and written and trained healthcare workers how to apply sexual health care guidelines in clinical practice.
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Dr Gemma Crawford
Academic
Curtin University

Travelers: the potential for HIV/sexual health peer and network interventions among Australian travellers and expatriates in high prevalence countries

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

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Gemma has almost 20 years of experience in health promotion and public health practice, advocacy, teaching and research. She worked in the community-based HIV response before moving to a teaching and research role at Curtin University. She is the President of the Australian Health Promotion Association.
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Ms Anne Atcheson
Schools & Community Content Lead & Educator
Sexual Health Victoria

‘IT’S LIKE THE BLIND LEADING THE BLIND’: EXPLORING THE REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN AUSTRALIA

11:15 AM - 11:20 AM

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Dr Cameryn Garrett is the Research Officer at Family Planning Victoria. She holds a Master of Women’s Health and a PhD in Public Health. Her research has explored strategies for increasing knowledge and access to contraceptive care and using innovative technology to improve young people’s access to sexual health services.
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Dr Daniel Demant
Senior Lecturer In Public Health
University of Technology Sydney

EFFECTS OF LGBT COMMUNITY CONNECTEDNESS AND PARTICIPATION ON SEXUAL HEALTH IN INTERNATIONAL MSM STUDENTS

11:20 AM - 11:25 AM

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Dr Daniel Demant is an epidemiologist and lecturer in public Health at UTS with a focus on health inequalities, particularly sexual health in sexual minority populations. Daniel gained extensive professional experience in the nonprofit sector, including the Queensland and German AIDS Councils as well as other sexual health organisations.
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Mr Joe Staniszewski
Registered Nurse
DYHS

MORE INFECTIONS BUT LESS RISK: UNPACKING THE SEXUAL HEALTH NEEDS OF MEDICARE-INELIGIBLE GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN ATTENDING MCLINIC IN PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA

11:25 AM - 11:30 AM

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Joe is the Practice Manager of M Clinic, with a background as a Registered Nurse and a passion for public health.
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Dr Roanna Lobo
Senior Lecturer
Curtin University

Hard critique of 5 years since the HIV Mobility and Migrant Populations Roadmap document – and what has changed in practice/policy?

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

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Dr Roanna Lobo has worked in the School of Public Health at Curtin University, WA, since 2003. She currently manages the SiREN project - Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Applied Research and Evaluation Network. Roanna has expertise in conducting qualitative research with vulnerable populations and facilitating evidence-based practice/policy.
Discussion

Q&A

11:45 AM - 12:00 PM

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Co-chair

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Jen Johnson
La Trobe University

Daniel Storer
Community Engagement And Policy Analyst
Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations

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