Jason Asselin
Co-Head, Surveillance and Data Linkage group
Working groups

Background
Jason joined Burnet Institute after eight years of working in HIV community-based prevention and support in both Toronto and Melbourne. Building on this experience, Jason joined the Burnet in 2013 to lead the national coordination of the COUNT study, which investigated the prevalence of undiagnosed HIV among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM) in Australian cities. Since then, he has developed expertise in the working with surveillance data and systems, and as the Manager of the Surveillance and Evaluation Working Group leads the ACCESS project, a national sentinel surveillance system of clinical services and laboratories, monitoring blood-borne viruses (BBV) and sexually transmissible infections (STI). Jason has an interest in the epidemiology of BBVs and STIs among GBM and the use of surveillance data to monitor and evaluate new interventions.
Qualifications
- 2019: Master of Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Australia;
- 2005: Grad Dip Health Promotion, Centennial College, Toronto, Canada;
- 2004: BSc (Hons), University of Toronto, Canada
Burnet publications
View 43 moreThe hepatitis C cascade of care for opioid agonist therapy recipients in Australia
Clinical Infectious Diseases
S. Griffin et al
Changing patterns of opioid agonist therapy prescribing in a network of specialised clinics providing care to people with opioid use disorder in Victoria , Australia , 2015 to 2023
Drug and Alcohol Review
Joshua Dawe et al
Phenotyping people with a history of injecting drug use within electronic medical records using an interactive machine learning approach
npj Digital Medicine
Carol El‐Hayek et al
Current projects
Informing priorities in the HIV response in Australia
We're taking a multifaceted approach to HIV prevention and supporting the health and wellbeing of people living with HIV.

ACCESS: Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance of Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood Borne Viruses
ACCESS is a national sentinel surveillance network of sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses.
Past projects

ACCESS Myanmar: Assessing the feasibility of an integrated HIV cascade of care surveillance system in Myanmar
ACCESS Myanmar will implement and evaluate an electronic health records data linkage system that effectively monitors the progress of patients through HIV testing and treatment episodes of care across a network of partnering community and government services.

COUNT: Community-based undiagnosed infection and HIV testing study
This study will deliver HIV testing to gay and bisexual men in community settings, provide test results and estimate HIV prevalence.