Ms Yumi Sheehan

Yumi is a member of the Viral Immunology Systems Program (VISP), both as the Research Project Manager overseeing VISP's Prisons Program and a PhD Candidate. She has extensive experience and expertise in research study coordination, having previously been a research officer and study coordinator for the Macquarie University Department of Cognitive Science and Reading Clinic before coming to the Kirby Institute in 2018. 

Yumi is involved with national and international prison-based hepatitis C research through leading the implementation of VISP's prison-based research studies, as well as being the coordinator for the Australian National Prisons Hepatitis Network (NPHN) and the Early Career Representative on the International Network on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users - Prisons Network (INHSU Prisons) Executive Committee. Yumi is also currently the student representative on the Kirby Institute's Strategic Advisory Group. 

Yumi's research interests focus on interventions to enhance hepatitis C care for people in prison, including models of care, point-of-care testing, education, surveillance, and advocacy. She is currently working across multiple research projects: the PIVOT study, National Prisons Hepatitis Education Project (HepPEd), Australian Hepatitis and risk survey in prisons (AusHep study), Australian Prisons Pharmacy study (APPs), Australian National Point-of-Care Testing Program, Prison-Focussed Health Economics and Modelling Working Group, and the INHSU Prisons Advocacy Toolkit.