Lisa Maher Explained

Lisa Maher
Thesis Title:Dope girls: Gender, race and class in the drug economy
Thesis Year:1995
Known For:Viral hepatitis epidemiology
Workplaces:University of New South Wales

Lisa Maher is Professor and head of Viral Hepatitis Epidemiology, at the Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, at the University of New South Wales and was made Member of the Order of Australia in 2015. She was awarded an Elizabeth Blackburn Fellowship, in Public Health from the NHMRC, in 2014. She is a fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.[1]

Early life and career

Maher obtained her BA from the University of Queensland, and MA and PhD from Rutgers. Maher's career involves the viral epidemiology of people who inject drugs, those living with HIV, sex workers as well as marginalised youth.[2] [3] Her research involves preventing infectious diseases within vulnerable populations.[4] [5] [6] Her work includes research on vulnerable people across the world, including those in North America, South East Asia, Australia and the Pacific.[7]

Maher's work on drug use has been reported by the ABC and SBS noting that heroin use caused young daughters to turn away from their families.[8] In the 1990s she filmed and interviewed people using heroin in Cabramatta to report on the epidemic 'and the deeply flawed response by authorities'.[9] Maher's work also includes researching drug use, reporting on the policing of heroin crack-downs,[10] intravenous injections, HIV prevention, and she has a partnership for the CRE for Injecting Drug Use.[11]

The Prime Minister Julia Gillard noted her involvement in the "prevention of infectious disease in vulnerable populations" and "community services such as vaccination, counselling and education."[12]

Select publications

In 2019, Maher had over 280 journal articles, 26 book chapters and two books published.[13] She has also had work published in The Lancet.[14]

Books

Journal articles

Awards and recognition

Maher's awards are as follows:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lisa Maher. tools.wmflabs.org. 2019-09-29.
  2. Web site: PM's award to Professor Lisa Maher. z3164589. 2013-06-21. UNSW Newsroom. 2019-09-29.
  3. Web site: Lisa Maher PhD UNSW Sydney, Kensington UNSW Kirby Institute. ResearchGate. en. 2019-09-29.
  4. Web site: Professor Lisa Maher UNSW - The Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society. kirby.unsw.edu.au. en. 2019-09-29.
  5. Web site: Lisa Maher. 2015-08-01. Harm Reduction Australia. en-US. 2019-09-29.
  6. Web site: RACGP - Lisa Maher. Practitioners. The Royal Australian College of General. www.racgp.org.au. en. 2019-09-29.
  7. Web site: Professor Lisa Maher CRE. creimmunisation.com.au. en. 2019-09-29.
  8. Web site: Once upon a time in Cabramatta. SBS On Demand. en. 2019-09-29.
  9. Web site: Hooked for 30 years: the changing faces of Australia's drug misuse. Aubusson. Kate. 2018-01-26. The Sydney Morning Herald. en. 2019-09-29.
  10. Web site: Cost of crackdowns.
  11. Web site: CREIDU: Centre for Research Excellence into Injecting Drug Use Burnet Institute. www.burnet.edu.au. 2019-09-29.
  12. Web site: PM's award to Professor Lisa Maher. z3164589. 2013-06-21. UNSW Newsroom. 2019-09-30.
  13. Web site: Select Publications by Professor Lisa Maher UNSW Research. research.unsw.edu.au. en. 2019-09-29.
  14. Maher. Lisa. Dixon. Thomas Crewe. 2017-08-01. Collateral damage and the criminalisation of drug use. The Lancet HIV. English. 4. 8. e326–e327. 10.1016/S2352-3018(17)30071-1. 2352-3018. 28515015.
  15. Book: Maher, Lisa. Sexed Work: Gender, Race, and Resistance in a Brooklyn Drug Market. 2000. Oxford University Press. 9780198299318. en.
  16. Maher. L.. Dixon. D.. 1999-09-01. Policing and public health: Law enforcement and harm minimization in a street-level drug market. The British Journal of Criminology. en. 39. 4. 488–512. 10.1093/bjc/39.4.488. 0007-0955.
  17. Grebely. Jason. Page. Kimberly. Sacks‐Davis. Rachel. Loeff. Maarten Schim van der. Rice. Thomas M.. Bruneau. Julie. Morris. Meghan D.. Hajarizadeh. Behzad. Amin. Janaki. Cox. Andrea L.. Kim. Arthur Y.. 2014. The effects of female sex, viral genotype, and IL28B genotype on spontaneous clearance of acute hepatitis C virus infection. Hepatology. en. 59. 1. 109–120. 10.1002/hep.26639. 1527-3350. 3972017. 23908124.
  18. Web site: Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. 2019. Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20190924034919/https://aahms.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/AAHMS-Full-Fellowship-A-Z-June-2019.pdf. 24 September 2019. 2019-10-02.
  19. Web site: Academy Fellow: Professor Lisa Maher AM, FASSA, FAHMS. 2020-10-10. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. en-AU.
  20. Web site: Fellows Detail » ASSA. en-US. 2019-09-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20190403104433/https://www.assa.edu.au/fellows/detail/. 3 April 2019. dead.
  21. Web site: Awards: The Paul Bourke Awards for Early Career Research. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 2019-09-29.

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