Browse Research Staff by Research Area Dr Janaki Amin     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: HIV/AIDS and viral hepatitis epidemiology and clinical trials are of primary interest More... Dr Mark Boyd     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: Access to HIV treatment and care in resource-limited settings, HIV research in resource-limited settings, International health and development, Ethical Issues in international biomedical research, Antiretroviral toxicity, pharmaco-kinetics and –dynamics, Therapy for HIV/TB coinfection, Second-line combination antiretroviral therapy, Neural networks for prediciting HIV resistance and optimal combination antiretroviral therapy More... Ms Dianne Carey     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: Treatment and adverse effects of antiretroviral therapy including HIV lipodystrophy More... Dr Christopher Carmody     School of Public Health and Community Medicine Statement of Interests: The association between smoking and erectile function is well understood in the health care community but in Australia there remains a gap in clinical research and health protection efforts with regard to this particular topic. More... Scientia Professor David Cooper AO     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: Clinical research in HIV/AIDS including antiretroviral therapy including drug toxicities, immune-based therapies, primary HIV infection, vaccines, cellular immune response to HIV, chemoprophylaxis and other biomedical methods of prevention of HIV infection and access and implementation of antiretroviral therapy in the developing world. More... Dr Lucette Cysique     School of Psychiatry - Brain Sciences UNSW Statement of Interests: Modelling cognitive change gaining insight from chronic conditions such as HIV infection, and Hepatitis C infection. Using combination of neuropsychological and neuroimaging method to improve our understanding of cognitive deterioration, but also cognitive improvement including compensatory strategies in face of a disease affecting brain functions. Applying models in crosscultural settings. More... Associate Professor Miles Davenport     Centre for Vascular Research Statement of Interests: A Complex Systems Approach to the problem of chronic infection: Although many acute infectious diseases are now effectively controlled by vaccination, we currently lack vaccines for many chronic infectious agents. These infections are of particular importance in the developing world, where hundreds of millions of people each year are affected by chronic infections such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. The Complex Systems in Biology group aims to understand the basic dynamics and pathogenesis of these infections, how the immune system interacts with them, and ultimately how we can control them. To achieve this we apply computational and mathematical approaches to understanding and predicting the complex interactions between host and pathogen. These interactions range from the molecular level (how immune molecules such as the T cell receptor interact with viral molecules), through to the dynamics of infection within individual hosts, and finally to the level of the host and pathogen population. The group brings together medical biologists, bioinformaticians, physicists, mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists to tackle these fundamental questions. The laboratory has a wide range of collaborations with experimentalists working in different areas of infection and immunity. More details of individual projects can be found at: http://www.cvr.net.au/research/complex.htm More... Associate Professor Kate Dolan     National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre Statement of Interests: Dr Dolan is interested in the transmission and prevention of infectious diseases in prison. More... Professor Basil Donovan     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: In the field of sexual health, key populations warrant special attention as a public health priority. Such populations include sex workers, men who have sex with men, Indigenous people living in remote settings, and prisoners. The molecular epidemiology of specific sexually transmissible infections (STIs) enables new insights into the spread and containment of STIs in populations. More... Dr Fraser Drummond     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: I have an ongoing interest in management strategies for HIV ART. I am also involved in sexual health management and various strategies for this. More... Professor Sean Emery     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: The evaluation of new treatments, new treatment strategies and biomedical preventive measures for HIV infection. The design and implementation of clinical research programs and projects to generate quality evidence to advise healthcare providers and policy makers. To balance high tech medicine with the reality of limited resources in countries where needs are greatest. More... Associate Professor Robert Griew     School of Public Health and Community Medicine Statement of Interests: In the field of Aboriginal health, the population health and health service development strategies that are required to make substantive progress toward closing the gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal health outcomes. This includes specific interests in the areas of maternal and child health, early childhood development, youth wellbeing and resilience and the management of metabolic and criculatory illness in adutls. A secondary interest in the HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C epidemics in Australia. More... Professor Andrew Grulich     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: Epidemiology and prevention of HIV infection, including behavioural and biomedical prevention. More... Professor Philip Hogg     UNSW Cancer Research Centre Statement of Interests: Disulphide bonds are covalent links between pairs of cysteine amino acids. All life forms make this bond. Human cells, for instance, make about 3,000 different proteins that contain disulphide bonds. These bonds have been generally considered to be either structural or catalytic. Structural bonds stabilise a protein while catalytic bonds mediate thiol-disulphide interchange reactions in substrate proteins. There is emerging evidence for a third type of disulphide bond which can control protein function by triggering a conformational change when it breaks and/or forms. We have called these bonds ‘allosteric disulphides’. We have predicted that about one in fifteen of all structurally determined disulphides is a potential allosteric bond, implying a significant role for these bonds in controlling protein function. Viral, bacterial and human proteins have been shown to be controlled by allosteric disulphides. Our research focus is to characterise control of important proteins by allosteric disulphides, be able to predict allosteric disulphides in proteins, and to exploit allosteric disulphides for drug development. More... Dr John Howard     National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre - National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre Statement of Interests: John is a Senior Lecturer, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW and consults to WHO, UNICEF and UNESCAP. This has included work in India, the Philippines, South Africa, Egypt, Lao PDR, Viet Nam, China and Thailand on street youth/children, health of male adolescents and capacity-building for the community treatment of young drug users. His major clinical, teaching and research areas are: adolescent substance use and ‘street youth’ (in both developed and developing countries), comorbidity, depression and suicide in young people, working with marginalised youth, adolescent psychotherapy, same-sex attracted youth, HIV infection in adolescents, resilience, and treatment capacity building. More... Associate Professor Philip Jones     Medical Administration - Medicine Education & Student Office Statement of Interests: Clinical research in endocarditis, pacemaker infections, cardiac surgery infections and other cardiovascular infections. Investigator for International Collaboration on Endocarditis (ICE) Project. More... Professor John Kaldor     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: Epidemiology and prevention of HIV infection, hepatitis C infection and other sexually transmissible diseases and blood-borne viruses; Epidemiology and prevention of cancer; Epidemiological methods. More... Associate Professor Tony Kelleher     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: The laboratory concentrates on comparing the interaction between virus and the immune system in treated and untreated individuals with HIV-infection in an attempt to define protective immune responses with the objective of applying these observations to rational treatment and vaccine design. We have established an exciting new area of research on transcriptional gene silencing of HIV-1 by siRNAs. We have developed new methodologies for describing Treg cells and antigen specific cells. More... Dr Stephen Kerr     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: Rational drug use is about the clinical use of the right drug, for the right patient, for the right indication, at the right dose, for the right duration, at the lowest cost to the patient and the community. Using drugs in this way helps to optimise the safety and quality of health care. One important first step is the conduct of well conceived clinical trials. More... Dr Pamela Konecny     St George Clinical School - Department of Medicine Statement of Interests: Infectious Diseases encompasses a broad range of sub-specialty interests, and HIV/AIDs, sexually transmitted infections, antimicrobial stewardship and parasitic infections are key areas of interest. Clinical trials in HIV/AIDS and Antimicrobials are undertaken. Original clinical research in female sexual health is being conducted in collaboration with Virology Research Department at SEALS, Randwick where new molecular diagnostic techniques have been developed to enhance our knowledge in sexually transmitted infection. More... Professor Lisa Maher     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: I conduct ethnographic, epidemiological and clinical research on drug use and related harms and studies of behavioural and biomedical prevention interventions designed to prevent infectious diseases in vulnerable populations, with a focus on injecting drug users and female sex workers. More... Dr Limin Mao     Prince of Wales Clinical School Statement of Interests: Cancer epidemiology, HIV/AIDS and its risky behaviors, and primary health care are of particular interest. More... Dr Pamela Palasanthiran     School of Women's and Children's Health Statement of Interests: We are interested in several areas of paediatric infectious diseases. Our current research studies include the folowing: [ Congenital cytomegalovirus infection (cCMV):To answer the question of how common cCMV is in Australia, we are currently involved in an ongoing prospective national surveillance study on cCMV via the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit (APSU). Data collected include the incidence of cCMV, spectrum of disease manifestation and maternal characteristics. <br><br> Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections in Australian Children. The incidence, spectrum of illness and clinical management of this infection in Australian children is unknown. The answer this, a prospective national surveillance study via the APSU is underway. Data will help us to understand how common this disease is in Australian children and guide clinical management of the condition. <br><br> Perinatal hepatitis C exposed infants. Only about 5% of infants born to hepatitis C infected mothers become infected with the hepatitis C virus. We are investigating immune mediated reasons for this postulating a cell mediated immune response by the baby clears the virus ealry in life. In addition, we are investigating the rate and type of decline of passively acquired hepatitis C antibodies in these infants. <br><br> Central venous devices and blood stream infections: We have designed a database to capture data on line related infections in children. We are have prospectively followed the trend in line infections with time after the introduction of a practice change based on recent evidence to minimise line infections (2% chlorhexidine). In addition, we are investigating the epidemiology of line infections at SCH and developing appropriate management guidelines for central line infections <br><br> Antibiotic Usage Surveillance. We are interested in monitoring antibiotic use at SCH with the aim of guiding rational antibiotic prescribing and impacting on antimicrobial resistance. We are investigating a tool for the audit of antibiotic use in children at this tertiary paediatric center 6) Acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) - we are interested in the epidemiology of acute bacterial meningitis in children. In addition, we have assisted in statewide guidelines on the management of ABM. Both areas are being studied at the present time. <br>Past Thesis Topics <br>Postgraduate -<br> Once daily gentamicin in infants and children: an evaluation of safety and the role of therapeutic drug monitoring in minimising toxicity <br>Undergraduate - Acute bacterial meningitis (ABM) in children: Epidemiology at a tertiary paediatric centre and Study on adherence to ABM guidelines. (BmedSc thesis, Natalie Sancandi, 2007)<br> Antibiotic usage: Novel method to monitor antibiotic usage in a tertiary paediatric centre" (ILP thesis, Josef Macdonald, 2008) <a href=/resinterests.nsf/sw/9902011?OpenDocument>More... </a><br><br></font>] Dr Sarah Pett     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: In the field of clinical trials, immunotherapy and new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of HIV-1-infection in the developed and developing world. More... Dr Jeffrey Post     Prince of Wales Clinical School Statement of Interests: The clinical interaction between HIV and HCV in people with HIV/HCV co-infection. Clinical infectious diseases. Interventions to improve clinical care and diagnostic strategies in Infectious Diseases. More... Associate Professor Garrett Prestage     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: Sexuality and sexual identity; Transmission, prevention and treatment of HIV other sexually transmissible infections; Gay men's health. Projects include both cross-sectional surveys and cohort studies of health and behaviour, as well as interview-based qualitative studies. More... Dr Catherine Spooner     School of Public Health and Community Medicine Statement of Interests: Collaborative social research in the Asia Pacific region relating to HIV. Particular interest in social determinants of health, injecting drug use and youth. More... Ms Preeyaporn Srasuebkul     Prince of Wales Clinical School Statement of Interests: -- More... Dr Niamh Stephenson     School of Public Health and Community Medicine Statement of Interests: Dr Stephenson is a Senior Lecturer in Social Science the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, whose research examines the relationships between social change and transformations in public health practice and knowledge. Her book, Analysing Everyday Experience: Social Research and Political Change examines how HIV positive people’s experiences are both shaped by and can subvert dominant understandings of HIV, health and illness (co-authored with Dimitris Papadopoulos, published by Palgrave, 2006). Her forthcoming book, Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century, examines recent shifts in the politics of experience in the fields of health, labour and migration (co-authored with Dimitris Papadopoulos and Vassilis Tsianos, Pluto, 2008). She has published in the fields of social research, cultural studies and qualitative research methods and is currently undertaking work on pandemic influenza and biosecurity. More... Professor Daniel Tarantola     School of Public Health and Community Medicine - Initiative for Health and Human Rights Statement of Interests: The UNSW Initiative for Health and Human Rights (IHHR) is a multidisciplinary research, teaching, service and advocacy initiative founded collectively by the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, Law and Medicine. The IHHR advances Health and Human Rights as both an area of study and a new, composite method of research applicable to: (1) Building the evidence of the synergy between health and rights; (2) Improving Governance and its impact on health and rights; (3) Focusing on vulnerable populations; and (4) Exploring the interface between health, development, human rights, poverty and globalization. [Current ILP Student research topic - Aging and climate change in Australia <a href=/resinterests.nsf/sw/3148580?OpenDocument>More... </a><br><br></font>] Dr David Templeton     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: Broad interest in the field of sexual health medicine, with a focus on the epidemiology of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in gay men and sexual assault More... Dr Claire Vajdic     Prince of Wales Clinical School Statement of Interests: The epidemiology of cancer in relation to immunodeficient states, such as HIV/AIDS infection, solid organ transplantation, haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and primary immune deficiency. The epidemiology and prevention of cancer, in particular lymphoma. Epidemiological methods, with an emphasis on exposure assessment. Ongoing interest in malignancies associated with sun exposure, in particular, melanoma of the eye. More... Ms Emily Waller     School of Public Health and Community Medicine Statement of Interests: Emily Waller is the Research and Development Manager for the cross-faculty UNSW Initiative for Health and Human Rights. Her research interests include the links between health, human rights and gender in conflict-affected settings, especially in relation to international and institutional responses to sexual and gender-based violence. Her most recent work focused on the UN response to sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers from a victim-centred and human rights perspective. She previously worked on a research project drawing on the experience of academics and practitioners to explore the interface between health systems, conflict prevention, support for post-conflict recovery and peacebuilding. This research has lead to the development of The Health and Peacebuilding Filter, which is designed to provide rapid assessment of peacebuilding and conflict prevention components of health initiatives in conflict-affected settings. Ms. Waller spent time in Sri Lanka and the Solomon Islands as part of the research team exploring the practical applications for the Filter. She completed her Master in Public Health at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW. More... Associate Professor David Wilson     National Centre in HIV Epidemiology & Clinical Research Statement of Interests: See my regularly updated research website: [http://www.nchecr.unsw.edu.au/NCHECRweb.nsf/page/SEPPH <a href=/resinterests.nsf/sw/3172478?OpenDocument>More... </a><br><br></font>] Associate Professor Heather Worth     School of Public Health and Community Medicine Statement of Interests: My research interests are primarily in the area of HIV, gender, and sexuality research, with a recent emphasis on the international scene, in particular HIV and global politics. I lea a team of researchers in an international HIV social research program in Asia and the Pacific This research encompasses projects in Sri Lanka , Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, China, Timor Leste and a number of countries in the Pacific . More... Dr Lorraine Yap     School of Public Health and Community Medicine Statement of Interests: • Applied social research relevant to reproductive health, STIs, and HIV/AIDS interventions, particularly among drug users, commercial sex workers, prisoners, indigenous populations. • Appraisal, design, monitoring and evaluation of health and population projects/programs, with special reference to sexual health, including HIV/AIDS. • Experience in needle and condom social marketing, and peer and health education and promotion in developing countries. • Participatory approaches to monitoring of performance and impact, and project evaluation. More... Need to update your profile? Click here to login with your Staff ID, prefixed by a lower case "s" (eg s1234567), and UniPass to update your profile. If you have any problems please send an email to .

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