Using social science to inform hepatitis C elimination efforts in prisons

Please join us for the 2024 Paul Bourke Award Lecture given by Dr Lise Lafferty.

In this address Dr Lafferty will reflect on a decade of social science research to understand key enablers and barriers to hepatitis C risk, prevention, testing and treatment in the prison setting.

People who use drugs are overrepresented in prison settings globally. Once incarcerated, people who inject drugs frequently continue to do so. However, the risk factors for exposure to bloodborne viruses, such as hepatitis C, and other injecting-related infections significantly increase in prison settings.

In this talk, Dr Lafferty will explore patient, healthcare provider, and correctional officer perspectives of different healthcare interventions which have been trialed and implemented with an aim to reduce hepatitis C transmission in the prison setting. She will also unpack the social, cultural and behavioural influences of hepatitis C risk navigation among people who inject drugs in prison.

Dr Lise Lafferty is a recipient of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia’s prestigious Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research. The Paul Bourke Lectures are named in honour of the late Paul Francis Bourke (1938–1999), President of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia from 1993–1997.

These lectures are presented each year by the recipients of the previous year’s Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research.

This lecture is jointly hosted by the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and UNSW for Social Sciences Week.

We hope you are able to attend this talk and join us afterwards for drinks in the Kirby Institute atrium.

Event Details

Date: Tuesday 10 September, 2024

Time:

3:45pm-4:00pm Doors open
4:00pm-5:00pm Paul Bourke Lecture
5:00pm-6:00pm Drinks reception

Venue: Kirby Institute Berg Seminar Room, Wallace Wurth Bld, UNSW Kensington

Format: This is an 'In-person Event'