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Level 6, Seminar Room Wallace Wurth Building UNSW Australia Sydney NSW 2052
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The Kirby Institute is pleased to present:
Professor Carla Teloar -Deputy Director- Centre of Social Research in Health- UNSW
"A tale of two projects: couples who injects and the secret life of prison needles."
Abstract:
This presentation will cover two very different social research projects. The “couples who inject drugs” project (CUPID) is one of the few wholly qualitative, wholly social science projects to be funded by NHMRC. In this project we have interviewed both members of heterosexual couples who inject to examine the ways in which they navigate hepatitis C risk and prevention. We have also tried to tackle hepatitis C prevention at a structural level – by developing and pilot testing a new fitpack prototype designed for couples. The secret life of prison needles derives from the HITS-p cohort study in which a qualitative interview sub-study examined, among other things, the price paid for needles/syringes in prison and how this informal economy operates.
Bio:
Professor Carla Treloar is Deputy Director and Head of the Hepatitis Research group at the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW. Carla has been a member of the NSW and Australian Ministerial Advisory Committees and numerous advisory committees for government, health agencies and non-government organisations.