Vanessa Veronese
PhD Candidate and NHMRC Postgraduate research scho
Public Health
Burnet Institute
Australia
Biography
Vanessa is public health professional with a background in HIV prevention, treatment and care in concentrated epidemics, particularly among younger cohorts of key affected populations. She has demonstrated experience in designing, conducting and analysing research studies in a number of locations across the Asia Pacific as well as developing tools and reports that address important gaps in HIV-related strategic information and has extensive experience of working in international settings for large non-government organisation and various UN agencies including in Ghana, Cambodia, UK, USA, Papua New Guinea, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Myanmar and Thailand.
Research Interest
Vanessa’s PhD will look at the HIV epidemiology and risk behaviours among ‘hidden’ men who have sex with men (MSM) in Myanmar.
Publications
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A systematic review of community based hepatitis C treatment. Wade AJ, Veronese V, Hellard ME, Doyle JS. BMC Infect Dis. 2016 May; 16(1):202
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New HIV testing technologies in the context of a concentrated epidemic and evolving HIV prevention: qualitative research on HIV self-testing among men who have sex with men and transgender women in Yangon, Myanmar. Wirtz AL, Clouse E, Veronese V, Thu KH, Naing S, Baral SD, Beyrer C J Int AIDS Soc. 2017 Apr; 20:21796
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Willingness to use HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis among gay men, other men who have sex with men and transgender women in Myanmar. Draper BL, Oo ZM, Thein ZW, Aung PP, Veronese V, Ryan C, Thant M, Hughes C, Stoové M J Int AIDS Soc. 2017 Jul; 20(1):21885
