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Bianca Whiteside

PhD candidate; Research Assistant

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bianca.whiteside@burnet.edu.au
Bianca Whiteside

Background

Bianca is an early career researcher having completed a Bachelor of Public Health and Health Promotion (Honours) in 2020 at Deakin University. During her Honours year, Bianca conducted a qualitative media analysis focusing on Victoria’s first medically supervised injecting room and was subsequently published.

Bianca has been with Burnet as a research assistant since March 2022 where she has been working on multiple projects focused on injecting drug use. Bianca is works as a casual academic at Deakin conducting research on women who use performance and image enhancing drugs.

A recipient of a Deakin Burnet Research Partnership Scholarship, Bianca commenced her PhD in mid-2022. Her project explores the public amenity and drug consumption rooms. Currently, Bianca is undertaking structured observations in the area particular to the North Richmond Medically Supervised Injecting Room. 

Qualifications

  • 2020: Bachelor of Public Health and Health Promotion (Honours), Deakin University

Positions

  • 2022–current: Research Assistant – Alcohol and Other Drugs, Burnet Institute
  • 2020–current: Research Assistant, Deakin University

Burnet publications

12 Aug 2024

What is the prevalence of anabolic‐androgenic steroid use among women? A systematic review

Addiction

Bianca Whiteside

Open access
21 May 2023

“Am I Really Living or Just Getting by?” Financial Security and Health-Related Decisions among International Students in Australia

Journal of Studies in International Education

Bianca Whiteside

Open access
21 Oct 2021

The print media's construction of the ‘drug problem’ in Victorian newspapers: The case of North Richmond Community Health's medically supervised injecting room

Drug and Alcohol Review

Bianca Whiteside

Current projects

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Methamphetamine and injecting drug use cohort studies: MIXMAX
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Methamphetamine and injecting drug use cohort studies: MIXMAX

MIXMAX is the largest active cohort study of people who use drugs in Australia. It combines 2 pre-existing studies: SuperMIX and VMAX.

Victorian Drug Trends

Victorian Drug Trends

The Drugs Trends Program includes the Illicit Drug Reporting System (IDRS) and the Ecstasy and Related Drugs Reporting System (EDRS).

Methamphetamine use in Melbourne and rural Victoria: the VMAX cohort study
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Methamphetamine use in Melbourne and rural Victoria: the VMAX cohort study

The VMAX cohort study follows 850 people who use methamphetamine recruited from metropolitan Melbourne and 3 regions of rural Victoria.

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