In what’s become an annual tradition, Annie and Carla wrap up the year that’s been, reflect on the amazing guests that have joined them in the “SpeakEasy Lounge” in 2019 and announce an exciting new SpeakEasy venture commencing in early 2020.

Enjoy the episode and thanks for listening in 2019!

Winner Announcement: 2019 National Competition for Excellence in Hepatitis C Health Promotion:

https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/centre-social-research-health/news/winner-announcement-2019-national-competition-excellence

Published paper linked to interview with Joanne Byrant on her presentation to the 2019 Australasian Viral Hepatitis Elimination Conference (AVHEC):

Making sense of ‘side effects’: Counterpublic health in the era of direct-acting antivirals (2019), International Journal of Drug Policy.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.06.002

After 25 years at the helm of Hepatitis NSW, Stuart Loveday takes his final bow as CEO. Annie and Carla chat with Stuart about what’s happened during his time leading the organisation and what’s left to do in this valedictory episode.

LINKS

Community Restorative Centre

https://www.crcnsw.org.au/

Hepatitis NSW

https://www.hep.org.au/

For more info: https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/csrh/about/speakeasy-podcast

Carla and Annie sit down with Professor Alison Ritter, Director of the Drug Policy Modelling Program at the Social Policy Research Centre at UNSW Sydney, to discuss the recurrent threat in Australian politics to drug test welfare recipients and why this makes for bad drug policy.

LINKS

How philosophy 101 could help break the deadlock over drug testing job seekers

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/social-affairs/how-philosophy-101-could-help-break-deadlock-over-drug-testing-job-seekers

ASPC 2019 Keynote by Professor Alison Ritter

https://soundcloud.com/unsw-arts-social-sciences/alison-ritter-aspc-2019-keynote

The Drug Policy Modelling Program

https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/sprc/research/drug-policy-modelling-program

It’s our final AVHEC19 episode! This week Felicity Sheaves, Blood Borne Viruses Coordinator, and Louise Maher, Hepatitis C and Senior Health Promotion Officer, both of the Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District, sit down with Carla and Annie to chat about the good ol’ days of the SIC Project and the beauty of not knowing how to navigate the health system (and doing it anyway).

LINKS

Sheaves, F., et al. (2001). "That's SIC: mobilising youth for hepatitis C prevention." Health Promotion Journal of Australia 12(3): 217-222.

Evaluation of the Deadly Liver Mob program: insights for roll-out and scale-up of a pilot program to engage Aboriginal Australians in hepatitis C and sexual health education, screening, and care

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954-018-0209-y

Deadly Liver Mob

https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/centre-social-research-health/our-projects/deadly-liver-mob

For more info: https://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/csrh/about/speakeasy-podcast

Associate Professor James Ward, a Pitjantjatjara/Narungga man and a national leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research on STIs, health and wellbeing, and Professor Chris Cunningham, of the Ngati Toa and Ngati Raukawa tribes of New Zealand and Professor of Maori Health, join Annie and Carla in our second AVHEC19 special episode. The awesome foursome join heads to discuss how viral hepatitis elimination is going in Australian and New Zealand Indigenous communities and where there's room for improvement.

LINKS

AVHEC 2019 plenary

https://ashm.eventsair.com/QuickEventWebsitePortal/avhec19/agenda/Agenda/AgendaItemDetail?id=1980f168-b559-4924-a98f-bea5286abd7a

Young Deadly Free STI campaign

https://youngdeadlyfree.org.au/

Hepatitis Foundation NZ

https://www.hepatitisfoundation.org.nz/

NZ Butterfly Campaign

https://www.hepc-action.nz/resources/the-butterfly/

Associate Professor James Ward profile

https://portal.sahmriresearch.org/en/persons/james-ward

Professor Chris Cunningham profile

http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=781430

It's Australasian Viral Hepatitis Elimination Conference time and once again Carla and Annie are ‘in the mix’ chatting to an assortment of keynote speakers and other amazing people at the forefront of hepatitis elimination across Australia and New Zealand. First up, Annie and Carla talk ‘counter-publics’, ‘lay experts’ and power dynamics in health promotion with A/Prof Joanne Bryant. Next up, a change of pace with the Cairns Hepatitis Action Team talking about their “surprise” at winning the 2018 HCV Health Promotion Resource Competition and what they did with the loot!

LINKS

Making sense of ‘side effects’: Counterpublic health in the era of direct-acting antivirals (2019), International Journal of Drug Policy.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.06.002

Evidence-making interventions in health: A conceptual framing

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112488

“Doing the devil’s work”: Emotional labour and stigma in expanding Needle and Syringe Programs

https://doi.org/10.3109/09687637.2015.1057553

Hepatitis C prevention still essential despite advances in treatment

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/hep-c-prevention-still-necessary-despite-advances-treatment

Cairns Hepatitis Action Team

https://www.cairnshepc.com/

Movie: You can't hep that

https://www.cairnshepc.com/movie-you-can-t-hep-that

Technical review of hepatitis C health promotion resources

http://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/fapi/datastream/unsworks:11089/SOURCE01?view=true

National Competition for Excellence in Hepatitis C Promotion 2019

https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/competitions/hepatitis-c-prize/

For this very special 2019 World Hepatitis Day episode, Annie and Carla talk with Australian researchers Dr Tanya Applegate from The Kirby Institute and Professor Margaret Hellard AM from The Burnet Institute about the ‘awesomely massive’ “Accelerating the elimination of viral hepatitis: a Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology Commission” and discuss the power of collaboration in the global fight against viral hepatitis.

Links

Accelerating the elimination of viral hepatitis: a Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology Commission

https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253(18)30270-X

Carla Treloar and Annie Madden welcome Jules Kim, Scarlet Alliance CEO, to the SpeakEasy lounge to do some sex work myth busting and discuss the importance of Scarlet Alliance, the national peak body for sex worker organisations that pursues equity and justice in the sex work industry.

LINKS

Scarlet Alliance website

http://www.scarletalliance.org.au/

Scarlet Alliance on Twitter

https://twitter.com/scarletalliance

More info:

https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/

It’s our final HR19 episode this week. First up, Carla steps outside (literally) with Graham Brown to discuss the ‘spaghetti and meatballs’ project on peer-led programs, also known as What, Works and Why or W3. Our final guest of the special HR19 episodes is Andrew Scheibe from Cape Town, South Africa. Andrew is an harm reduction implementer, with a focus on implementation science that is valid in local contexts.

LINKS

W3 (What Works and Why)

http://w3project.org.au/

ARCSHS at La Trobe

https://www.latrobe.edu.au/arcshs

TB HIV Care

http://www.tbhivcare.org/

Andrew Scheibe

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew_Scheibe

For more info: https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/

As part of a series of interviews from HRI19, in this episode Annie and Carla speak with legendary activist Zoe Dodd about setting up a ‘pop-up’ SIF, her Masters research and life and politics on the frontlines of the Canadian OD crisis.

LINKS

Zoe Dodd on Twitter

https://twitter.com/ZoeDodd

Toronto Overdose Prevention Society

https://twitter.com/TorontoOPS

For more info: https://csrh.arts.unsw.edu.au/research/podcast-speakeasy-with-annie-madden-and-carla-treloar/