Sophia is a research officer in the Disease Elimination and Implementation Science Working Group. Her background is in political science, social psychology, and public health.
Sophia has extensive experience in conducting qualitative and mixed-methods research and using social theory to address barriers to wellbeing among marginalised groups. She has been involved in hepatitis C elimination research, small-scale project evaluation for community-based organisations, and research collaborations with the Centre for Social Research in Health to improve understandings of recidivism among people who inject drugs. Her PhD research was situated within a critical realist framework and explored the discourses, contexts, and contingencies that shape injecting drug use among gay and bisexual men in Australia. She is currently working on designing stigma interventions in healthcare settings, infectious disease prevention among people who inject drugs, and global hepatitis C elimination programs.
International Journal of Drug Policy
S. Griffin, Shelley Walker, Sophia Schroeder, Margaret Hellard, Mark Stoové, Rebecca Winter
Public Health
Sophia Schroeder, Peter Higgs, Paul Dietze, Mark Stoové
Qualitative Health Research
Sophia Schroeder, Mark Stoové, Joseph Doyle, Margaret Hellard, Alisa Pedrana
This project addresses critical knowledge gaps in Australian and global efforts to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030.
The co-EC study aimed to eliminate hepatitis C/HIV coinfection among gay and bisexual men through scale up treatment of hepatitis C in primary care and hospital settings.