@MSHCResearch

Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, part of @AlfredHealth Affiliated with @MonashSTM

 Melbourne, Victoria
monash.edu/medicine/ccs/sexual-health
Joined January 2017
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🎉 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! 👏
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📢 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-spea…
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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.
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📝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.2025.15…
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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
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🎓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!
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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.eclinm.202…
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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
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📝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/s12879-024-1…
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MSHC Research retweeted
Jason Ong@DrJasonJOng
17 Dec 2024
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/ar…
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New paper by doctoral candidate @SallyY_Zhang in @jiasociety exploring linkage to care and prevention after HIV self-testing: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @MonashResearch @unimelbMSPGH
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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
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🏆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
Professor Eric Chow heads the Health Data Management and Biostatistics Unit and coheads the HIV/STI Clinical Trial Unit at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health. He is also an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the School of Translational Medicine, Monash University. Eric holds four master’s degrees in Applied Science (Bioinformatics), Public Health, Biostatistics, and Clinical Epidemiology, demonstrating his multidisciplinary expertise. Eric is an internationally recognised mid-career epidemiologist with expertise in HIV, sexually transmitted infections, public health and health services efficiency. He has >400 peer-reviewed publications in sexually transmitted infections and sexual health services. His work has been cited >11800 times with an h-index of 56 (Google Scholar, December 2024).

ALT Professor Eric Chow heads the Health Data Management and Biostatistics Unit and coheads the HIV/STI Clinical Trial Unit at the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health. He is also an NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the School of Translational Medicine, Monash University. Eric holds four master’s degrees in Applied Science (Bioinformatics), Public Health, Biostatistics, and Clinical Epidemiology, demonstrating his multidisciplinary expertise. Eric is an internationally recognised mid-career epidemiologist with expertise in HIV, sexually transmitted infections, public health and health services efficiency. He has >400 peer-reviewed publications in sexually transmitted infections and sexual health services. His work has been cited >11800 times with an h-index of 56 (Google Scholar, December 2024).

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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
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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… @MonashResearch @Monash_FMNHS @unimelbMSPGH @SHSOV @Alfred_Research
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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
Screenshot of paper header with title "Preferences for attributes of an artificial intelligence-based risk assessment tool for HIV and sexually transmitted infections: a discrete choice experiment", and authors and their affiliations (as tagged and in linked paper). Header shows article is available open access.

ALT Screenshot of paper header with title "Preferences for attributes of an artificial intelligence-based risk assessment tool for HIV and sexually transmitted infections: a discrete choice experiment", and authors and their affiliations (as tagged and in linked paper). Header shows article is available open access.

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MSHC Research retweeted
Eric Chow@EricPFChow
12 Nov 2024
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
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Congratulations to doctoral candidate Rebecca Wigan who on winning the Burnett Flash Talk Award at the recent @TheASMR1 Victorian Annual Scientific Meeting! 👏🎉👏🎉👏🎉
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ALT Photo of women receiving certificate from man. Both are smiling at the camera.

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Congratulations to our very own @ericalplummer whose field-leading research in the vaginal microbiome was recently recognised by @theamrhub!!! 👏🏆🎉🥇📣🙌
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Huge congratulations to Dr. @ericalplummer! 🎉 Her research in understanding of non-gonococcal urethritis, cervicitis, and bacterial vaginosis was celebrated at the recent @theamrhub symposia, highlighting emerging leaders in the field.
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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/SH24… @CSIROPublishing @Alfred_Research @unimelbMSPGH
Screenshot of header of research paper with the CSIRO logo, a stylised map of Australia, and title, authors and some of abstract shown (as available in linked paper).

ALT Screenshot of header of research paper with the CSIRO logo, a stylised map of Australia, and title, authors and some of abstract shown (as available in linked paper).

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