Dr Joanne Bryant

Teaching

Areas of expertise for supervision
include quantitative and/or qualitative analyses of:

Social production of risk practice for hepatitis C
Social aspects of illicit drug use and drug treatment

Publications

Paquette D, Bryant J, Crawford S, De Wit J. (in press). Conducting a Respondent-Driven Sampling Survey with the Use of Existing Resources Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Treloar C, Hull P, Bryant J, Lavis Y, Grebely J (in press) Factors associated with hepatitis C knowledge among a sample of treatment naive people who inject drugs. Drug and Alcohol Dependence.

Wilson H, Bryant J (in press). Perception of Hepatitis C risk among injecting drug users who obtain injecting equipment from pharmacies in Western Australia Contemporary Drug Problems.

Paquette D, Bryant J, De Wit J. (in press). A Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) Survey of people who Inject Drugs in South East Sydney: An Assessment of RDS Assumptions and Requirements, Contemporary Drug Problems.

Grebely J, Bryant J, Hull P, Hopwood M, Lavis Y, Dore G, Treloar C (in press). Factors associated with specialist assessment and treatment for hepatitis C virus infection in a community-based cohort in New South Wales, Australia, Journal of Viral Hepatitis.

Wilson H, Bryant J, Holt M, Treloar C. (2010) Normalisation of recreational drug use among young people: evidence about accessibility, use and involvement in drug using networks. Health Sociology Review. 19(2): 164-75.

Bryant J, Topp L, Hopwood M, Iversen J, Treloar C & Maher L. (2010) Is point of access to needles and syringes related to needle sharing? Comparing data collected from pharmacies and needle and syringe programs in south east Sydney, Drug and Alcohol Review. 29: 364-370.

Bryant J, Brener L, Hull P, Treloar C (2010) Needle sharing in regular sexual relationships: An examination of serodiscordance, drug using practices, and the gendered character of injecting, Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 107: 182-187.

Treloar, C., Hopwood, M., & Bryant, J. (2010). "Does anyone know where to get fits from around here?": Policy implications for the provision of sterile injecting equipment through pharmacies in Sydney, Australia. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 17(1): 72-83.

Brener, L., Ellard, J., Resnik, I., Treloar, C., & Bryant, J. (2009). Exploring the role of consumer participation in drug treatment, Drug and Alcohol Dependence,105: 172-175.

Bryant, J., & Hopwood, M. (2009). Secondary exchange of sterile injecting equipment in a high distribution environment: A mixed method analysis in south east Sydney, Australia. International Journal of Drug Policy, 20: 324-328.

Bryant, J., & Treloar, C. (2008). Initiators: An examination of young injecting drug users who initiate others to injecting. AIDS and Behavior,12(6): 885-90.

Cliffe, S., Black, D., Bryant, J., Sullivan, E. (2008). Maternal deaths in New South Wales, Australia: A data linkage project. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 48(3): 255-60.

Bryant, J., & Hopwood, M. (2008). Pharmacy needle and syringe survey 2006: Hepatitis C risk and access to sterile injecting equipment in pharmacies in south-east Sydney. Sydney: National Centre in HIV Social Research, The University of New South Wales.

Bryant, J., Saxton, M., Madden, A., Bath, N., & Robinson, S. (2008). Consumer participation in the planning and delivery of drug treatment services: The current arrangements. Drug and Alcohol Review, 27, 130-137.

Bryant, J., Saxton, M., Madden, A., Bath, N., & Robinson, S. (2008). Consumers’ and providers’ perspectives about consumer participation in drug treatment services: Is there support to do more? What are the obstacles? Drug and Alcohol Review, 27, 138-144.

Bryant, J., Porter, M., Tracy, S., & Sullivan, E. (2007). Caesarian birth: Consumption, safety, order, and good mothering. Social Science and Medicine, 65, 1192-1201.

Bryant, J., & Schofield, T. (2007). Feminine sexual subjectivities: Bodies, agency and life history. Sexualities, 10(3), 321-340.

Bryant, J., & Treloar, C. (2007). The gendered context of initiation to injecting drug use: Evidence for women as active initiates. Drug and Alcohol Review, 26, 287-293.

Bryant, J. (2006). Rights, responsibilities and citizenship in heterosexual women's talk about sex: Promoting women's sexual health and safety. Health Sociology Review, 15, 277-286.

Bryant, J., & Treloar, C. (2006). Risk practices and other characteristics of injecting drug users who obtain injecting equipment from pharmacies and personal networks. International Journal of Drug Policy, 17, 418-424.

Hopwood, M., Treloar, C., & Bryant, J. (2006). Hepatitis C and injecting-related discrimination in New South Wales, Australia. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 13, 61-75.

Other Information

Selected grants
beyondblue Strategic Research Grant 2010-2011, $50,000 The impact of alcohol and drug use on the diagnosis and management of depression in gay men: a sub-study of the Primary Health Care Project on HIV and Depression; Newman, Bryant, Holt, Canavan, Kippax, Saltman, Kidd.

Australian Research Council Linkage Grant 2009-2013, $775,000 Sexual health and relationships in young Indigenous people. Ward, Worth, Smith, Thiele, Kaldor, Bryant, Pitts.

Department of Health Western Australia, 2009, $78,884 Pharmacy Needle and Syringe Survey 2009, Bryant and Treloar.

New South Wales Department of Health, 2008 $49,277 Pharmacy Fitpack Survey 2007-2008. Bryant and Treloar.

New South Wales Department of Health, 2007-2008 ($295,474) Hepatitis C Surveillance Suite of Projects. Treloar and Bryant.

New South Wales Department of Health, 2006-2008 ($298,751) Sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses in Aboriginal communities in NSW: Survey of knowledge, risk practice and access to services, in collaboration with the Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council of NSW. Worth, Bryant, Ward, Solar.

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Sydney, 2004 'Sex, subjectivity and agency: A life history study of women's sexual relations and practices with men.'

Master of Science (Research), University of Northern British Columbia, 1999 'Preventive cancer screening: Social determinants of participation in mammography and pap tests.'

Bachelor of Science, University of British Columbia, 1993.

Memberships

The Australian Sociological Association (TASA)

Interests

Joanne is trained in epidemiology and sociology. Her main interests are concerned with the mapping and social production of risk practice for hepatitis C. Her work generally uses public health methods of data collection but aims to situate risk practices within a social context. She is interested in the role discourses of sexuality and gender play in producing sexual and injecting risk, and how risk practice can create a sense of belonging, trust and shared identity.