Conference Presentation

Year 2015

• Which alcohol screening tool is likely to be suitable for routine use in primary health care services targeting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Australians? Paper presented in the The Australian & New Zealand Addiction Conference, Gold Coast, 20-22 May, Australia

Year 2014

• Patterns of comorbidity and out-of-pocket expenditure on health care by the senior Australians with chronic diseases. Paper presented in 2014 PHC Research Conference, Canberra, Australia
• Does it matter who organises your health care? Paper presented in 2014 PHC Research Conference, 23-25 July, Canberra, Australia

Year 2013

• Analysing drug use variation using novel geographic methods: the misuse of prescription opioids in Australian context. The Canberra Collaboration: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Research Networking Workshop, 31 October, Canberra, Australia
  • A tale of two tails - time use and out of pocket costs for chronically ill older Australians. Paper presented in the 8th Health Services & Policy Research Conference, December 2-4, Wellington, New Zealand
• The patterns of multimorbidity and comorbidity of chronic diseases among the senior Australians: assessment using a range of approaches. Paper presented in the 8th Health Services & Policy Research Conference, December 2-4, Wellington, New Zealand

Year 2012

• How much does it cost to provide primary health care services from a needle syringe program? Paper presented in the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs conference, November 18-21, Melbourne

Year 2011

• Sex and drugs in inner-city Sydney: Sexual risk behaviours and barriers to safe sex among drug users accessing low-threshold primary healthcare. Paper presented in the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs conference, November 13-16, Hobart, Australia.
• Assessing the model of care and service utilisation of a nurse led low-threshold primary healthcare in a needle syringe programme setting in inner-city Sydney. Paper presented in the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs conference, November 13-16, Hobart, Australia.
• Knowledge, acceptability and barriers to hepatitis B vaccination among people who inject drugs. Poster presented in the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs conference, November 13-16, 2011 Hobart,Australia.
• Linkage into specialist hepatitis C treatment services of injecting drug users attending needle syringe programme-based primary healthcare centre. Paper presented in the 2nd International Symposium on Hepatitis in Substance Users, September 15-16 Brussels, Belgium.
• A nurse led low-threshold primary healthcare in an inner-city needle syringe programme: four years’ experience. Paper presented in the 13th annual meeting of the International Society for Addiction Medicine (ISAM), September 6-10 Oslo, Norway.
• Sexual risk behaviours and barriers to safe sex among drug users accessing low-threshold primary healthcare. Advances in Public Health and Health Services Research at UNSW, Third Annual Symposium 2011, UNSW, August 5, Sydney, Australia.
• The Redfern Harm Minimisation Clinic: client uptake and outcomes. Paper presented in the inter-departmental Substance Abuse Research Group (ISARG) symposium, the University of Sydney, June 15, Sydney, Australia.

Year 2010

• Assessment for hepatitis C treatment and referral uptake by IDUs attending a harm reduction based primary healthcare. 7th Australian Viral Hepatitis Conference, September 6-8, Melbourne, Australia

Year 2009

• NSP based primary healthcare linking IDUs with GPs. Poster presented in the Australasian Professional Society on Alcohol and other Drugs conference, November1-4, 2009 Darwin, Australia.