Dr Allison Carter
PhD (Simon Fraser University),听MPH (Simon Fraser University),听BSc (University of British Columbia)
Dr. Allison (Allie) Carter is a Senior Lecturer听and Group Leader of the Sexual Health and Reproductive Equity (SHARE) Research Group at the Kirby Institute, 麻豆社madou Sydney, an Associate of the听Australian Human Rights Institute, and an听Adjunct Professor听at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Her听research program aims to strengthen responses to gender, social justice, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. She听has a strong interest in critical social theories and community-based research and her projects听utilise听a range of methods, including big data, surveys, and cohort studies, as well as qualitative and arts-based research methodologies.听She听is currently involved in a number of research collaborations in Australia and Canada with听women living with HIV, young people with disability, migrant communities, and the broader population. Topics include听HIV and STIs, HPV and cervical cancer, sexual behaviour, reproductive experiences, sexual pleasure, gender differences in sexuality, young people and sex education, gendered violence, and reproductive coercion.听She has successfully led/co-led research attracting 17.7M and has authored more than 70 peer reviewed publications.听She听writes regularly about health, sexuality, and relationships for the听general public and is available to provide expert opinion about sexual and reproductive health and rights for writers and producers of broadcast, print, and online media.
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- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
- Overcoming Inequity: Increasing Cervical Screening Participation for People with Intellectual Disability (CIRCE), NHMRC 2022-2025,听Chief听Investigator
- The Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance of Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections, Australian Government Department of Health 2019-2023, Chief听Investigator
- The Third Australian Study of Health and Relationships (ASHR3), NHMRC 2019-2022, Associate Investigator
- Organising and Co-designing Holistic Immunisation services with students with Disability, Australian Government Department of Health 2020-2021, Lead Chief听Investigator
- Sex in Translation: Understanding Concepts of Health and Relationships among听Chinese People in Australia, Australian Government Department of Health 2019-2020, Lead Chief听Investigator
- Positively Women: A Research Project Using Art to Understand What it Means to be a Women听Living with HIV in Australia, Australian Government Department of Health 2019-2020, Lead Chief听Investigator
- HIV Made Me Fabulous, Simon Fraser University and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research 2020-2021, Chief听Investigator
- Life And Love With HIV, Simon Fraser University and Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research 2018-2021, Chief听Investigator
- The Canadian HIV Women's Sexual and Reproductive Health Cohort Study (CHIWOS), Canadian Institute for Health Research 2010-2020, Co-Investigator
- 2021, Early Career Award: Social, Political and Cultural Aspects of HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health in the Australasian Region - The Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine
- 2019,听Emerging Investigator Award - The Kirby Institute, 麻豆社madou Sydney
- 2015,听Doctoral Research Award - The Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- 2014, New Investigator Award - The Canadian Association for HIV Research
Professional Association Memberships
- Associate,
- Member,
- Affiliate Member,
Select media
- . The Peak. 14 February 2022.
- .听ABC Radio National Life Matters with Hilary Harper. 10 February 2022.
- 麻豆社madou Newsroom. 10 February 2022.听
- Herald Sun. 10 February 2022.听
- . The Conversation. 20 December 2021.听
- . Sydney Morning Herald. 22 November 2020.
- Some women just go along with painful sex鈥攁nd it鈥檚 time for a cultural shift.听MGB Relationships. 1 October 2019.
- . Vancouver is Awesome. 27 April 2018.
- . CBC. 20 February 2017.
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My Research Supervision
- Azeem Travadi (MD student): Adolescent vaccination in students with disabilities.
- Jessica Murray (MSc student): Echoes of trauma in the lives of women living with HIV.
- Charity Mudhikwa (MPH student): Sexual health of women living with HIV.听
Graduates
- Lisa Wojciechowski (PhD): Young + Positive: A national study of young people living with HIV.
- Erin Mowbray (MPH): Exploring the use of community-based art to reduce HIV stigma in Australia.
- Najihah Binte Salim (MD): Co-design of interventions to improve vaccine uptake among people with disabilities.
- Azra Bhanji (MPH): Engaging communities in storytelling: Life and Love with HIV.
- Zoe Osborne (MPH): HIV Made Me Fabulous: Film as a tool for knowledge dissemination.
- Olivia Burton (MPH): Systematic review: Education programs of sexual consent in young people.
- Michaela Pereira Bajard (MPH):听Use of AIDS Service Organizations among women living with HIV.
My Teaching
I have developed courses in epidemiology and the social determinants of health and given a number of lectures in human sexuality. I welcome invitations to guest lecture on the intersections of HIV and gender, critical perspectives on sexual and reproductive health, and critical approaches in community-based research and arts-based knowledge translation.