Contacts

Doctor Rebecca Winter

Deputy Head Justice Health Group

Background

Rebecca Winter has over 15 years of experience in public health research. Primarily, she has worked on studies relating to risk behaviours and risk groups relating to communicable disease transmission, with a particular interest in drug user and justice-involved populations. Rebecca completed her doctoral studies on injecting drug-related harms among prisoners and ex-prisoners in 2016.

Appointments

  • Burnet Fellow
  • Honorary Research Fellow, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
  • Adjunct Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University

Positions

  • 2022: Deputy Head Justice Health Group
  • 2022: Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
  • 2020: Senior Research Officer, Burnet Institute
  • 2016: Research Officer, Burnet Institute
  • 2011-2016: PhD candidate, Monash University and Burnet Institute
  • 2005-2010: Research Assistant, Burnet Institute

Qualifications

  • 2017: PhD, Monash University, Australia
  • 2010: MPH, Latrobe University, Australia
  • 2002: BA, Latrobe University, Australia

Awards

  • 2016: Burnet Institute Travel Award
  • 2013: ICAAP (International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific) student scholarship, Bangkok, Thailand
  • 2012: NIDA Conference Scholarship, Academic and Health Policy Conference on Correctional Health, Atlanta, GA, USA
  • 2010: National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) PhD Scholarship, Dora Lush Public Health Scholarship

Projects (9)

Current (6)

  • EC Australia: Eliminate Hepatitis C Australia Partnership

  • EC Partnership: Eliminate Hepatitis C Partnership

  • Feasibility study for a potential medically supervised injecting centre/drug consumption service for the ACT

  • Sexual health and STIs among people who use drugs❗Student Projects Available

  • The B-VAX Project: Hep B vaccinations for people who inject drugs

  • The elimination of hepatitis C as a global public health threat

Past (1)

  • co-EC Study: Eliminating hepatitis C/HIV coinfection

Publications (34)

2023 (4)

2022 (5)

2021 (7)

2019 (3)

2018 (1)

2016 (2)

2015 (3)

2013 (4)

2012 (1)

2011 (1)

2010 (1)

2008 (2)

News Articles (3)

2022 (1)

2016 (1)

2013 (1)