Abstracts 3: Human rights for SRH - Improving Care
Tracks
Track 3
Monday, September 18, 2023 |
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
Collaroy |
Speaker
Mx Louise Bourchier
PhD Student
University Of Melbourne
“I Don’t Know Where to Find Information…” “I Am Embarrassed to Ask My Doctor…” Barriers to Older Adults’ Sexual Health Access
11:00 AM - 11:12 AMBiography
Louise Bourchier is sexual health lecturer and PhD student at the University of Melbourne. She is researching older adults’ sexual health to help improve sexual health promotion for this often forgotten age group.
Dr Jacqueline Coombe
Research Fellow
The University Of Melbourne
Does The Information Available About Long-Acting Reversible Contraception Meet the Needs of Potential and Current Users? A Mixed-Methods Study
11:12 AM - 11:24 AMBiography
Dr Jacqueline Coombe is a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She has extensive expertise in conducting qualitative research, particularly regarding experiences of engaging with the healthcare system to access sexual and reproductive healthcare. She has a particular interest in experiences of using long-acting reversible contraception.
Mrs Kari Vallury
Senior Research Officer
Children By Choice
Sexual and Reproductive health care experiences of Australian women with intellectual disabilities
11:24 AM - 11:36 AMBiography
Kari is the Senior Research Officer at Children by Choice and a PhD candidate at Flinders University of South Australia. Her work spans global health and community sector program evaluation, collaborative research design, abortion stigma, and reproductive health accessibility, equity and rights.
Professor Jane Ussher
Professor Of Women's Health Psychology
Western Sydney University
Out With Cancer: Negotiating Cis-Heteronormative Constructions of Cancer and Cancer Care
11:36 AM - 11:48 AMBiography
Jane Ussher is Professor of Women’s Health Psychology, in the Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, Australia. She edits the Routledge Women and Psychology book series, and the journal Women’s Reproductive Health, and is author of over 350 papers and chapters, and 13 books, in sexual and reproductive health.
Professor Linda Bennett
Professor of Medical Anthropology, Nossal Institute of Global Health
University Of Melbourne
Calling out and preventing enacted stigma in health care encounters: Lessons from women cervical cancer patients and health professionals in Indonesia
11:48 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
Professor Linda Rae Bennett is a medical anthropologist who specialises in research, practice and advocacy in sexual and reproductive health and rights, including violence against women and girls. She has 25 years of experience working in Indonesia, and has also worked in Fiji, Botswana and among Australia's diverse CALD communities.
Ms Susan Saldanha
HDR
Monash University
Reproductive coercion and the role of general practitioners
12:00 PM - 12:12 PMBiography
Susan Saldanha is a PhD candidate within the Department of General Practice, Monash University. She is located within the SPHERE CRE in Sexual and Reproductive Health for Women in Primary Care. Susan’s PhD research aims to assess the risk factors and health consequences of reproductive coercion within Australian general practice.
Chairperson
Ben Riley
Policy and Public Affairs Manager
ASHM Health
Darren Russell
Director
Cairns Sexual Health Service