Abstracts 1: SRH for adolescents and young people - Sexual health online
Tracks
Track 1
| Monday, September 18, 2023 |
| 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM |
| Narrabeen |
Speaker
A Prof Megan Lim
Head, Young People's Health
Burnet Institute
A Survey of Parents’ Reactions to Children’s Pornography Use
11:00 AM - 11:12 AMBiography
Megan is Deputy Program Director at Burnet Institute and leads the Young People's Health research group. Her primary area of interest is understanding how digital media impact on public health.
Miss Nicolette Beard
Co- Founder
We Are Womxn
Taking Matters Into our Own Hands - Standing Up Against Assault and Harassment on WA Campuses through redeveloping on-campus consent resources.
11:12 AM - 11:24 AMBiography
Nicolette Beard is an accomplished Health Promotion Practitioner, Teacher, and the Co-founder of ‘We Are Womxn’. Nicolette is dedicated to providing tailored education, challenging societal norms, and using education as a transformative force to guide women towards empowerment and lasting impact.
Miss Kate Raston
Co-founder
We Are Womxn
Taking Matters Into our Own Hands - Standing Up Against Assault and Harassment on WA Campuses through redeveloping on-campus consent resources.
11:12 AM - 11:24 AMBiography
Kate Raston, an accomplished Health Promotion Practitioner, is the Co-founder of ‘We Are Womxn’ and an educator of female adolescent health. As a dedicated champion of women, Kate has devoted her career to advocating and supporting young women to feel empowered in their bodies.
A/Prof Jennifer Power
Principal Research Fellow
Australian Research Centre In Sex, Health And Society, La Trobe University
Building sexual literacy online
11:24 AM - 11:36 AMBiography
Jennifer Power is an Associate Professor and Principal Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University. Her research focuses on sexuality, sexual health and HIV. She currently co-ordinates the Secondary Students and Sexual Health Survey.
Dr Heather McCormack
Scientia Research Fellow
Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Tailored sexual health promotion for Aboriginal young people encourages condom use even in a pandemic context: evaluation of Take Blaktion during COVID-19
11:36 AM - 11:48 AMBiography
Heather has worked in communications, health promotion, and program management roles across the STI/BBV sector for fifteen years. Heather’s research interests include social aspects of sexual health, digital health promotion, accessibility and acceptability of sexual health services to diverse populations and optimising public health interventions to improve service delivery.
Ms Rochelle Avasalu
Manager
NSW STI Programs Unit
Ms Jordan Murray
Program Manager
SESLHD STI Programs Unit
Case study: How Play Safe used digital communications to deliver STI prevention messages to high-risk young people
11:48 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
Rochelle manages the NSW STI Programs Unit within the NSW Ministry of Health. Her role focuses on leading state-wide interventions in prevention, testing and treatment for HIV and STIs. Rochelle has a background in program management, community development and people management.
Doctor Samantha Mannix
Postdoctoral Fellow
Swinburne University Of Technology
#relationshipgoals: young people’s perspectives on digitally mediated relationships
12:00 PM - 12:12 PMBiography
Dr Samantha Mannix is Postdoctoral Research Fellow Digital Literacies for Sexual Health Policy at Swinburne University. She is an affiliate researcher with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Her research focuses on how digital sexual cultures shift and shape norms and understandings of sexuality and relationships.
Chairperson
Joseph Croke
Assistant Director
Department Of Health And Aged Care
Jessica Michaels
Deputy CEO
ASHM Health
