Background

Bridget completed her honours project on HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis preparedness among men who have sex with men in Myanmar.

Now as a Research Assistant she is working on the 2016 HIV Prevention Initiatives Evaluation.

Qualifications

• 2014: Bachelor of Arts (International Studies), RMIT, Australia
• 2015: Honours (Health Sciences), Monash University, Australia

Projects (4)

Current (3)

• CREIDU: Centre for Research Excellence into Injecting Drug Use
  Improving the health of PWID through new research to inform public health policy and practice.
• EC Partnership: Eliminate Hepatitis C Partnership
  Informing the elimination of HCV through a community-based nurse-led model of care and treatment.
• Rapid-EC hepatitis C Pilot Study
  Investigating the feasibility of providing rapid point-of-care testing for hepatitis C in community clinics.

Past (1)

• HIV Prevention Initiatives Evaluation
  An initiative to reduce HIV/STI risk behaviours as well as increasing health seeking behaviours among homosexually active gay men.

Publications (7)

2018 (4)

• Measuring and understanding the attitudes of Australian gay and bisexual men towards biomedical HIV prevention using cross-sectional data and factor analyses.
  Wilkinson AL, Draper BL, Pedrana AE, Asselin J, Holt M, Hellard ME, Stoové M
  Sex Transm Infect. 2018 Jun; 94(4):309-3014
• Comfort Relying on HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis and Treatment as Prevention for Condomless Sex: Results of an Online Survey of Australian Gay and Bisexual Men.
  Holt M, Draper BL, Pedrana AE, Wilkinson AL, Stoové M
  AIDS Behav. 2018 Mar; Epub ahead of print
• Does training people to administer take-home naloxone increase their knowledge? Evidence from Australian programs.
  Dietze PM, Draper B, Olsen A, Chronister KJ, van Beek I, Lintzeris N, Dwyer R, Nelson M, Lenton S
  Drug Alcohol Rev. 2018 Feb; 37(4):472-479
• Acceptability of Peer-Delivered HIV Testing and Counselling Among Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) and Transgender Women (TW) in Myanmar.
  Veronese V, Oo ZM, Thein ZW, Aung PP, Draper BL, Hughes C, Ryan C, Pedrana A, Stoové M
  AIDS Behav. 2018 Feb; Epub ahead of print

2017 (2)

• Willingness to use HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among gay men, other men who have sex with men and transgender women in Myanmar.
  Draper BL, Oo ZM, Thein ZW, Aung PP, Veronese V, Ryan C, Thant M, Hughes C, Stoové M
  J Int AIDS Soc. 2017 Jul; 20(1):21885
• A survey of hepatitis C management by Victorian GPs after PBS-listing of direct-acting antiviral therapy.
  Wade A, Draper B, Doyle J, Allard N, Grinzi P, Thompson A, Hellard M
  Aust Fam Physician. 2017 Apr; 46(4):235-240

2016 (1)

• Achieving development goals for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria in sub-Saharan Africa through integrated antenatal care: barriers and challenges.
  Fowkes FJ, Draper BL, Hellard M, Stoové M
  BMC Med. 2016 Dec; 14(1):202

News Articles (2)

2017 (1)

• Hep C treatment decline prompts new call out

2016 (1)

• Burnet evaluation survey of HIV prevention campaigns