Current Projects

HIV and sexual health

Gay community periodic surveys (Sydney, Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Queensland & Canberra) e-male study (the role of the internet in building social capital for homosexually active men) Primary health care project on HIV and depression The interaction between sexually transmissible infections and HIV infection in homosexual men Feasibility of an national internet-based cohort study of men who have sex with men in Australia The Straightpoz study: men and women living heterosexually with HIV in NSW Who's calling? An analysis of calls made to the Pozhet info-line from 1993 to 2007 Qualitative interviews concerning key issues and experiences (QUICKIE) project Barriers to HIV testing among people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds Community periodic survey of culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Sydney Respondent-driven survey of sexual behaviours among gay men in Sydney, Australia: a pilot study Understandings of risk and HIV among men who have sex with men in Victoria, Queensland and New South Wales Living with uncertainty: creating the postmodern self in contemporary Australia

Hepatitis C and injecting and illicit drug use

Periodic survey of drug use among young people National treatment service users project: Phase 2 Making decisions about hepatitis C treatment A study of post-interferon-based hepatitis C treatment experience Hepatitis C prevention – the real deal: automatic influences on injecting behaviour, Phase 2 Hepatitis C seroconversion: using qualitative research to enhance surveillance Pharmacy Fitpack survey UNSW hepatitis C vaccine initiative

International HIV and sexual health

HIV/AIDS behavioural surveillance and capacity development in Timor Leste: 2007 – 2009 National HIV/AIDS prevention project behavioural surveillance system (BSS), Sri Lanka Condom access and usage amongst young people in Vanuatu and Tonga The sexual attitudes and lifestyles of London’s Eastern Europeans (SALLEE) A rapid assessment of the HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men in Johannesburg and Durban, South Africa. 5-Centre HIV and AIDS research initiative (5-CHARI)

Aboriginal health

Sexual health and relationships in young Indigenous people Survey of knowledge, risk practice and access to services in Aboriginal people in NSW SEARCH: study of environment on Aboriginal resilience and child health Aboriginal patterns of cancer care (APOCC) Building research capacity for health interventions to imporve Aboriginal health

Postgraduate research

Factors influencing men’s participation in programs for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Tanzania Sexual attitudes and behaviour of international backpackers visiting Australia An investigation of information needs and information-seeking practices of people with hepatitis C The dynamics of shame: implications for the drug and alcohol counsellor when working in residential rehab Press ‘enter’: information technologies and the textual construction of sex Living with hepatitis C in Auckland and Sydney Safe-sex campaigns in Australia and New Zealand HIV, sex work and China's human rights Kinship practices among gay men who have become parents through commercial surrogacy HIV and labour migration in Pakistan Exploring identity formation in a hepatitis C membership association