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Competitive advantage
- Cross-disciplinary expertise in public health and social psychology
- Cross-cultural research into sexual minority groups in the Asia Pacific Region
- Research engagement in disease self-management and health service across infectious and non-communicable diseases
Impact
- Policy advocacy, mobilisation and empowerment of individuals and communities often marginalised due to being LGBTI and/or culturally and linguistically diverse
- Healthcare service and system reorientation to improve patient-centred care and coordination between primary health care, specialist service and community support
Successful outcomes
- Ongoing engagement with the Commonwealth and state/territory departments of Health in HIV/STI-related behavioural surveillance, particularly among Asian migrants
- Expert committee member on communicable disease (HIV, STI and hepatitis B/C) monitoring at the Commonwealth and NSW Health
- Research consultations for government and non-government organisations on improving service engagement, delivery and impact
Capabilities and facilities
- Mixed-method evaluation
- Interdisciplinary team
- Established and ongoing collaborations with the Kirby Institute; NeuRA; Centre for Applied Medical Research, St Vincent's Hospital Sydney; the George Institute Sydney & Beijing
Our partners
- Australian Department of Health
- NSW Ministry of Health
- ACT Health
- ACON
- Positive Life NSW
- Bobby Goldsmith Foundation
- NSW Local Land Services