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 (3)

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