Jason Asselin
Head, Surveillance and Data Linkage
Working groups
Background
Jason joined Burnet Institute after 8 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 49 moreChlamydia prescribing trends in Australia before and after a national guideline update: a retrospective study of sentinel surveillance data, 2015–2025
Sexual Health
Stephanie C. Munari et al
Population-level impact of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis on bacterial sexually transmitted infections: data and analysis code
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Michael W. Traeger et al
Population-level impact of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis on bacterial sexually transmitted infections: data and analysis code
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Michael W. Traeger et al
Current projects
View 1 moreAustralian Support for Pacific HIV Action (ASPHA)
An Australian Government initiative supporting Pacific island countries to respond to rising rates of HIV.
Unlocking health: using linked administrative data to improve health outcomes for people incarcerated in Victoria
In this project we aim to establish a system for monitoring health and health service use among people leaving prison in Victoria.
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.
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.