MSHC Research

🎉 Congrats to Prof @DrJasonJOng on his appointment as the new Director of Melbourne Sexual Health Centre! We are excited to see him take MSHC to new heights. Join us in congratulating him! 👏

📢 Plenary Speaker Highlight: Prof. Eric Chow! A global leader in sexual health, Prof. Chow is an award-winning epidemiologist & biostatistician, recognized for his groundbreaking STI research. Join us at #STIHIV2025 as he shares key insights! 🔗 stihiv2025.org/meet-the-speak…

Today, we say a huge thank you to Prof @kitfairley as he wraps up 24 years as Director of Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. Kit’s dedication, vision and kindness have shaped MSHC into a leader in sexual health. Thank you, Kit! Wishing you all the best in your next chapter.

📝New paper by our senior research fellow Dr @lenkavod in @FrontRepHealth highlights the need to consider bacterial vaginosis and Mycoplasma genitalium when assessing and managing #cervicitis Read more: doi.org/10.3389/frph.2…

New paper by our #GP registrar Dr Jun Jung in @sexualhealthj shows that low proportion of gonorrhoea cases prescribed recommended antibiotics and retested within recommended time frames in primary care settings. Read more: doi.org/10.1071/SH24140

🎓Congratulations to Dr Phuc (Julien) Tran @JulTra87 on his #PhD conferral yesterday. His thesis examined #gonorrhoea transmission & #syphilis prevention in #MSM. He had 23 publications during his PhD. We are incredibly proud and wish him all the best for the future!

New paper by our #PhD candidate @SallyY_Zhang in @eClinicalMed shows that discrete choice experiments are valuable for capturing health-related preferences and possess reasonable external validity to predict health-related behaviours. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ecli…

Are you a gay, bisexual, queer man, or a man who has sex with men? Are you interested in leading the charge to distribute HIV self-testing kits to your friends? Find out more here: bit.ly/HIVSTreg @ThorneHarbour @MonashResearch

📝New paper by doctoral candidate @nnsoe1989 in BMC Infectious Diseases shows machine learning & Bayesian models can accurately diagnose 12 STIs & anogenital conditions Read more: doi.org/10.1186/s12879…

Discrete choice experiments show strong predictive accuracy for health-related behaviours (89% sensitivity, 52% specificity). Especially effective for prevention choices like vaccines. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper by doctoral candidate @SallyY_Zhang in @jiasociety exploring linkage to care and prevention after HIV self-testing: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10… @MonashResearch @unimelbMSPGH

Are you a gay, bisexual, queer man, or a man who has sex with men? Are you interested in leading the charge to distribute HIV self-testing kits to your friends? Find out more here: bit.ly/HIVSTreg @ThorneHarbour @MonashResearch

🏆Congratulations to @EricPFChow @MSHCResearch @AlfredHealth and @Monash_FMNHS, who's been honoured by the #HealthServicesResearch community for "significant and lasting contributions" to improve the treatment, prevention and control of sexually transmitted infections. Eric is an internationally recognised mid-career epidemiologist with expertise in #HIV, #STIs, #PublicHealth and health services efficiency. As the world's second-most active author on STIs, this year Eric was awarded the @science_academy Gottschalk medal, and named the top researcher in Sex & Sexuality by the @australian. He's made the Stanford University List of World Top 2% Scientists (2020–2024) Here's Eric with his award, at the @hsraanz annual conference. #Monash #TranslationalMedicine #SexualHealth

Are you a gay, bisexual, queer man, or a man who has sex with men? Are you interested in leading the charge to distribute HIV self-testing kits to your friends? Find out more here: bit.ly/HIVSTreg

New paper by doctoral candidate @JulTra87 in the International Journal of STD & AIDS exploring the duration of kissing in different intimate positions among men who have sex with men: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… @MonashResearch @Monash_FMNHS @unimelbMSPGH @SHSOV @Alfred_Research

New paper by doctoral candidate Dr @phyumonlatt in @BioMedCentral Public Health exploring user preferences for attributes of an #ArtificialIntelligence-based risk assessment tool for HIV & STIs: rdcu.be/d1rph @MonashResearch @unimelbMSPGH

Had a fantastic evening at the @SHSOV post-conference feedback session. We had a great mix of talks covering epidemiology, clinical, artificial intelligence & digital health. Big thanks to all the speakers for sharing their work and insights with us. #sexualhealth

Congratulations to doctoral candidate Rebecca Wigan who on winning the Burnett Flash Talk Award at the recent @TheASMR1 Victorian Annual Scientific Meeting! 👏🎉👏🎉👏🎉

Congratulations to our very own @ericalplummer whose field-leading research in the vaginal microbiome was recently recognised by @theamrhub!!! 👏🏆🎉🥇📣🙌

New paper by Dr Juan Martinez Andres in @sexualhealthj reporting results from a survey of people living with HIV in Australia, exploring their experiences of telehealth for HIV care and management: publish.csiro.au/sh/pdf/SH24067 @CSIROPublishing @Alfred_Research @unimelbMSPGH