Location:
The Kirby Institute Level 6 Seminar Room Wallace Wurth Building UNSW Australia Sydney NSW 2052
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Rata Joseph +61 (0)2 9385 0900 rjoseph@kirby.unsw.edu.au
The Kirby Institute is pleased to present:
Dr Lucy Platt, Lecturer in Public Health Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
"Prevalence and burden of HCV co-infection among people living with HIV: A global systematic review"
Bio:
Dr Lucy Platt is a Lecturer in Public Health Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her research uses different quantitative techniques, such as capture recapture to estimate the size of hidden populations, systematic reviews to synthesise evidence on HIV/HCV co-infection, the effect of migration on STIs/HIV among sex workers and the impact of brief interventions on alcohol; and cross-sectional studies to measure prevalence of HIV/HCV and STIs and associated risk factors among people who inject drugs (PWID) and SWs. Although primarily an epidemiologist, much of her research is mixed-methods, incorporating qualitative methods to understand the complex social processes that drive individuals’ behaviour as well as collaborating closely with mathematic modellers to simulate intervention impact on disease transmission. Her methodological interests lie in how best to combine qualitative and quantitative methods to measure the causal pathways through which structural factors (i.e. social policies) increase risk behaviours and vulnerability to infectious disease and other health harms among vulnerable and marginalised populations.