Sexual Health: an Australian perspective
About
the editors
Meredith
Temple-Smith is a Senior Lecturer in the Primary Care Research Unit in the Department of General Practice at the University of Melbourne. She
has published on many topics related to sexual health, such as GPs’
knowledge and practices in relation to sexually transmissible infections,
barriers to contact tracing, surveillance, and sexual history taking.
Her Master of Public Health thesis examined female attendance at the Melbourne
Sexual Health Service(1918-1958); her doctoral thesis looked at the role
of the GP in the control of STIs. Her current research interests include
health practitioners’ management of patients with bloodborne viruses.
She is a longstanding committee member of the Sexual Health Society of
Victoria, and on the Board of Management of the journal, Sexual Health.
Sandra Gifford is a Professor and Director of the Refugee Health Research Centre at La Trobe University. Her background and training combines medical anthropology and social epidemiology with a specific focus on public health, gender, and cultural and linguistic diversity. She has researched the social context of risk for HIV/AIDS and bloodborne viruses, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which the social structures of everyday life have an impact on health and wellbeing. Much of her research over the past 15 years has been on the determinants of sexual health and wellbeing within the culturally diverse communities. A second focus is on the social influences of health inequalities. She has published on culture, gender, and sexual health. Currently, Sandy is carrying out research into issues of health and settlement among newly arrived refugee young people.