Current Students
2010
Doctorates awarded
Kathleen Falster (UNSW)
Treatment experience and long term morbidity and mortality outcomes among a cohort of HIV-infected patients in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region in the era of combination antiretroviral treatment
Supervisors: Matthew Law, Basil Donovan
Susan Hudson (UNSW)
Sex, drugs and ‘ugly mugs’: an ethnographic study of women who inject psychostimulants and engage in street-based sex work in Kings Cross, Sydney
Supervisor: Lisa Maher
Mary Poynten (UNSW)
Biological and behavioural methods of prevention of HIV/AIDS transmission
Supervisors: Andrew Grulich, Jeff Jin
PhD candidates at NCHECR
Amit C Achhra
Bio-markers and other predictors of AIDS and non-AIDS diseases in HIV observational (cohort) studies
Supervisors David Cooper; Janaki Amin; Matthew Law
Jonathan Anderson
The role of economic evaluation in decision-making about HIV
Supervisors: David Cooper; Sean Emery; Kathy Petoumenos
Helen Byakwaga
Antiretroviral therapy and the management of HIV/AIDS
Supervisors: Sean Emery; David Cooper; Mark Boyd
Dianne Carey
Optimising therapeutic outcomes in HIV-infected subjects
Supervisors: Sean Emery, David Cooper
Eric Pui Fung Chow
Understanding the past, forecasting the future - investigating the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in China
Supervisors: Lei Zhang, David Wilson
Paul Clark
Genomics to predict the complications of chronic hepatitis C and its treatment
Supervisors: Greg Dore, Alex Thompson (St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne)
Laura Cook
Characterisation of T regulatory cells
Supervisors: Tony Kelleher, Nabila Seddiki
Fraser Drummond
Chemoprophylaxis for Syphilis in MSM - A trial of systemic chemoprophylaxis for syphilis in HIV positive men who have sex with men
Supervisors: Basil Donovan; John Kaldor; Rebecca Guy.; Jeff Klausner
Heather Gidding
Hepatitis C-related morbidity and treatment in Australia
Supervisors: Matthew Law; Greg Dore; Janaki Amin
Simon Graham
An Intervention to improve sexually transmitted infection control and management in selected Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services in New South Wales
Supervisors: Basil Donovan; Rebecca Guy; Handan Wand
Hila Haskelberg
Antiretroviral toxicity in HIV-infected patients
Supervisors: Sean Emery; Andrew Carr (St Vincent’s Hospital); Janaki Amin
Kelly Jean Heymer
Using modelling to evaluate drivers and predict trajectories of HIV and STI epidemics in South East Asia and Australasia
Supervisors: David Wilson, Philip O’Neil (University of Nottingham)
Denise Chee Hsu
Using novel biomarkers to define the role of TB specific effector T cell and TB specific regulatory T cell in patients with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB) and HIV co- infection
Supervisors: David Cooper, Tony Kelleher
Jennifer Lynne Iversen
Enhanced sentinel sero-surveillance among people who inject drugs in Australia
Supervisors: Lisa Maher; Libby Topp; Handan Wand
Amy Kwon
Mathematical modelling of viral epidemics among injecting drug users in the Asia-Pacific region
Supervisors: David Wilson, Rosie Thein; Cliff Kerr
Kylie-Ann Mallitt
Geospatial Models of HIV Transmission
Supervisors: Handan Wand, David Wilson
Allison Martin (Humphries)
Toxicities associated with antiretroviral treatment of HIV-1 antiretroviral treatment effects on HIV Infection
Supervisors: Sean Emery, Janaki Amin
Sheila Matete-Owiti
Modelling HIV epidemics in Indigenous communities
Supervisors: Richard Gray; David Wilson; James Ward
Kristin McBride
Studies of the latent reservoirs of HIV-1
Supervisors: David Cooper; Tony Kelleher; Kersten Koelsch
Mee Ling Munier
The role of HIV-specific CD4+ T-cells at primary infection
Supervisors: Tony Kelleher; Bill Sewell; John Zaunders
Rebecca Akao Oyomopito
HIV-1 drug resistance in treatment-naïve and combination antiretroviral therapy exposed patients in Asia
Supervisors: Matthew Law, Tony Kelleher
Sarah Pett
Aspects of HIV-1 treatment: An exploration of the positive and negative physiological aspects of host-directed treatments for HIV-1 infection
Supervisors: David Cooper; Tony Kelleher; Sean Emery
Suzanne Polis
Adherence to hepatitis B antiviral therapies
Supervisors: Lisa Maher, Armany Zekry (St George Hospital)
Karen Schneider
Mathematical modelling of HIV epidemiology, treatment and drug-resistance in Thailand
Supervisors: David Wilson; Basil Donovan; Matthew Law
Sanjay Swaminathan
Role of miRNAs in HIV-1 pathogenesis
Supervisor: Tony Kelleher
Winnie Wing Yin Tong
Measurement of immune responses to clinically significant viral pathogens in immunocompromised adults
Supervisors: Andrew Carr (St Vincent’s Hospital), Tony Kelleher
Edward (Ned) Waters
The analysis, ecology and implications of HPV variants in HPV related cancers
Supervisors: David Regan, David Philp (SPHCM); Andrew Grulich
Chris Weatherall
Characterisation of B-lymphocyte responses in primary HIV infection-neutralising antibodies and immune tolerance
Supervisors: Tony Kelleher, David Cooper
Bethany White
Hepatitis C vaccine preparedness
Supervisors: Lisa Maher, Greg Dore
Masters students at NCHECR
Tarana Lucky Masters by Research
Quantitative techniques to improve monitoring and evaluation of HIV epidemics and to determine trends in transfusion transmissible infections (by producing a national surveillance report with Blood Service) in Australia
Supervisors: David Wilson, Handan Wand
Skye McGregor M. Phil
Health priority setting in developing countries
Supervisors: John Kaldor, Rosie Thein
Chansavath Phetsouphanh Masters by Research
Re-characterising Antigen specific CD4+ T Cells to HIV
Supervisors: Tony Kelleher, Nabila Seddiki
Lucia Romani M. Phil
Factors associated with scabies in a highly endemic population
Supervisors: John Kaldor, Andrew Steer (Murdoch Childrens Research Institute)
Bronwyn Silver Masters by Research
Reproductive health at risk: exploring the interface between sexual and reproductive health in Indigenous women in remote communities
Supervisors: John Kaldor; Rebecca Guy; Alice Rumbold (Menzies School of Health Research)
Honours students at NCHECR
Lim Steven
Supervisors: Tony Kelleher, Kazuo Suzuki
Characterisation of promoter targeted siRNAs during transcription gene silencing of HIV-1
Murray Daniel
Supervisors: Tony Kelleher, Sanjay Swaminathan
Mapping miRNA changes in the monocytes of HIV-1 infected patients
Supervision of non-National Centre students
Botes Leon Pierre (The University of Sydney) PhD Candidate
Validation of the acceptability and reliability of self collected anal swabs used for cytological screening, to detect anal squamous intra-epithelial lesions in HIV-positive men who have sex with men
Supervised by Richard Hillman; co-supervised by Jeff Jin
Fetherston James (Curtin University)
Modelling hepatitis C transmission in Australian prisons
Co-supervised by David Wilson
Lam Paul (UNSW Faculty of Medicine)
Supervisors: Kersten Koelsch, Tony Kelleher
HIV DNA dynamics in patients switching to a raltegravir-containing regimen
Lambert Stephen (University of Queensland)
Supervisors: Scott Kitchener (UQ), Basil Donovan
Chlamydia in the Australian Defence Forces
Londish Gregory (on leave of absence)
Supervisors: John Murray, Matthew Law
The Impact of a Male Circumcision Intervention on HIV Epidemics
Read Tim (Melbourne University), PhD Candidate
Sexually transmitted viruses in men having sex with men
Co-supervised by Andrew Grulich
O’Dwyer Matthew (University of Sydney), u/g Public Health Honours
Influences on changes in HIV incidence rates in young men in Australia
Co-supervised by Iryna Zablotska
Othman Loay (La Trobe University), PhD Candidate
HIV and stigma in the United Arab Emirates
Supervised by Garrett Prestage
Somanadhan Sowbhagya
Influence of civil society on HIV policies and services in India and the participation of people living with HIV/AIDS
Supervised by Lisa Maher
Zou Huachun (University of Melbourne), PhD Candidate
HPV infection in young men who have sex with men
Co-supervised by Andrew Grulich