By Professor Lisa Maher

Journal articles

Clackett S; Seed CR; Prestage G; Hammoud MA; Hoad V; Saxton P; Haire B; Holt M; Jin F; Bourne A; Maher L; Kaldor J, 2020, 'Attitudes and willingness to donate blood among gay and bisexual men in Australia', Transfusion, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/trf.15768

Hammoud MA; Jin F; Maher L; Bourne A; Haire B; Saxton P; Vaccher S; Lea T; Degenhardt L; Prestage G, 2020, 'Biomedical HIV Protection Among Gay and Bisexual Men Who Use Crystal Methamphetamine', AIDS and Behavior, 24, pp. 1400 - 1413, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-019-02739-7

Boyd J; Lavalley J; Czechaczek S; Mayer S; Kerr T; Maher L; McNeil R, 2020, '“Bed Bugs and Beyond”: An ethnographic analysis of North America's first women-only supervised drug consumption site', International Journal of Drug Policy, 78, pp. 102733, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102733

Brasher NA; Eltahla AA; Underwood A; Boo I; Rizzetto S; Walker MR; Rodrigo C; Luciani F; Maher L; Drummer HE; Tedla N; Lloyd AR; Bull RA, 2020, 'B cell immunodominance in primary hepatitis C virus infection', Journal of Hepatology, 72, pp. 670 - 679, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2019.11.011

Quinn B; Pearson R; Cutts J; Seed C; Scott N; Hoad V; Dietze P; Wilson D; Maher L; Thompson A; Farrell M; Harrod M; Caris S; Pink J; Kotsiou G; Hellard M, 2020, 'Blood donation amongst people who inject drugs in Australia: research supporting policy change', Vox Sanguinis, 115, pp. 162 - 170, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/vox.12891

Bajis S; Grebely J; Hajarizadeh B; Applegate T; Marshall AD; Ellen Harrod M; Byrne J; Bath N; Read P; Edwards M; Gorton C; Hayllar J; Cock V; Peterson S; Thomson C; Weltman M; Jefferies M; Wood W; Haber P; Ezard N; Martinello M; Maher L; Dore GJ; Peolim L; How-Chow D; Telenta J; Harvey P; Jones S; Dunlop A; Treloar C; Samuel Y; Poeder F; Crawford S; Baxter A; Keats J; Mowat Y; Silk D; Micallef M; Tamaddoni M; Marks P; Lamoury F; Jayasinghe I; Reid H; Cunningham EB; Bartlett S; Jacka B; Erratt A; Jauncey M; Collie P; Lam T; Gilliver R; Hazelwood S; Houlihan N; Burns C; Lewis R; Morris D; Donohue K; Carthew A; Horasak N; Cherry R; Shin S; Peterson D; Sellwood T; McKeown W; Pritchard-Jones J; Smyth F; Adey S; Clark K; Grebely J; Applegate T; Hajarizadeh B; Ezard N; Edwards M, 2020, 'Hepatitis C virus testing, liver disease assessment and treatment uptake among people who inject drugs pre- and post-universal access to direct-acting antiviral treatment in Australia: The LiveRLife study', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 27, pp. 281 - 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvh.13233

Lee JY; Page K; Stein E; Evans JL; Sokunny M; Maly P; Sophal C; Ngak S; Maher L; Carrico AW, 2020, 'Who’s that SMARTgirl? Reaching Cambodian Female Entertainment and Sex Workers with HIV Prevention Services', AIDS and Behavior, 24, pp. 738 - 745, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-019-02532-6

Maher L; Iversen J; Geddes L, 2020, 'Mapping out a research agenda on alcohol and other drug stigma: Commentary on Seear', Drug and Alcohol Review, 39, pp. 114 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13030

Keen P; Hammoud MA; Bourne A; Bavinton B; Holt M; Vaccher S; Haire B; Saxton P; Jin F; Maher L; Grulich AE; Prestage G, 2020, 'Use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) associated with lower HIV anxiety among gay and bisexual men in Australia who are at high risk of HIV infection', JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 83, pp. 119 - 125, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/qai.0000000000002232

Philpot S; Prestage G; Holt M; Haire B; Maher L; Hammoud M; Bourne A, 2020, 'Gay and Bisexual Men’s Perceptions of Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in a Context of High Accessibility: An Australian Qualitative Study', AIDS and Behavior, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-020-02796-3

Geddes L; Iversen J; Wand H; Esmaeili A; Tsui J; Hellard M; Dore G; Grebely J; Dietze P; Bruneau J; Prins M; Morris MD; Shoukry NH; Lloyd AR; Kim AY; Lauer G; Cox AL; Page K; Maher L; Lloyd A, 2020, 'Sex Discrepancies in the Protective Effect of Opioid Agonist Therapy on Incident Hepatitis C Infection', Clinical Infectious Diseases, 70, pp. 123 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz162

Vaccher SJ; Hammoud MA; Bourne A; Lea T; Haire BG; Holt M; Saxton P; Mackie B; Badge J; Jin F; Maher L; Prestage G, 2020, 'Prevalence, frequency, and motivations for alkyl nitrite use among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 76, pp. 102659 - 102659, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.102659

Bell S; Ward J; Aggleton P; Murray W; Silver B; Lockyer A; Ferguson T; Fairley CK; Whiley D; Ryder N; Donovan B; Guy R; Kaldor J; Maher L, 2020, 'Young Aboriginal people's sexual health risk reduction strategies: a qualitative study in remote Australia', Sexual Health, 17, pp. 303 - 303, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh19204

Bell S; Aggleton P; Ward J; Murray W; Silver B; Lockyer A; Ferguson T; Fairley CK; Whiley D; Ryder N; Donovan B; Guy R; Kaldor J; Maher L, 2020, 'Young Aboriginal people’s engagement with STI testing in the Northern Territory, Australia', BMC Public Health, 20, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-08565-0

Maher L; Neale J, 2019, 'Adding quality to quantity in randomized controlled trials of addiction prevention and treatment: a new framework to facilitate the integration of qualitative research', Addiction, 114, pp. 2257 - 2266, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.14777

Walker MR; Leung P; Eltahla AA; Underwood A; Abayasingam A; Brasher NA; Li H; Wu BR; Maher L; Luciani F; Lloyd AR; Bull RA, 2019, 'Clearance of hepatitis C virus is associated with early and potent but narrowly-directed, Envelope-specific antibodies', Scientific Reports, 9, pp. 13300, http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-49454-w

Ward J; Guy RJ; Rumbold AR; McGregor S; Wand H; McManus H; Dyda A; Garton L; Hengel B; Silver BJ; Taylor-Thomson D; Knox J; Donovan B; Law M; Maher L; Fairley CK; Skov S; Ryder N; Moore E; Mein J; Reeve C; Ah Chee D; Boffa J; Kaldor JM; Han A, 2019, 'Strategies to improve control of sexually transmissible infections in remote Australian Aboriginal communities: a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised trial', Lancet Global Health, 7, pp. e1553 - e1563, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(19)30411-5

Brookfield S; Fitzgerald L; Selvey L; Maher L, 2019, 'The Blind Men and the Elephant: Meta-Ethnography 30 Years On', Qualitative Health Research, 29, pp. 1674 - 1681, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732319826061

Southwell M; Shelly S; Macdonald V; Verster A; Maher L, 2019, 'Transforming lives and empowering communities: Evidence, harm reduction and a holistic approach to people who use drugs', Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 14, pp. 409 - 414, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/COH.0000000000000566

Bajis S; Grebely J; Cooper L; Smith J; Owen G; Chudleigh A; Hajarizadeh B; Martinello M; Adey S; Read P; Gilliver R; Applegate T; Treloar C; Maher L; Dore GJ, 2019, 'Hepatitis C virus testing, liver disease assessment and direct-acting antiviral treatment uptake and outcomes in a service for people who are homeless in Sydney, Australia: The LiveRLife homelessness study', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 26, pp. 969 - 979, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvh.13112

Abayasingam A; Leung P; Eltahla A; Bull RA; Luciani F; Grebely J; Dore GJ; Applegate T; Page K; Bruneau J; Cox AL; Kim AY; Schinkel J; Shoukry NH; Lauer GM; Maher L; Hellard M; Prins M; Lloyd A; Rodrigo C, 2019, 'Genomic characterization of hepatitis C virus transmitted founder variants with deep sequencing', Infection Genetics and Evolution, 71, pp. 36 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2019.02.032

Le LVN; O’connor S; Tran TH; Maher L; Kaldor J; Sabin K; Tran HV; Tran QD; Ho VAT; Nguyen TA, 2019, 'High hepatitis C virus infection among female sex workers in Viet Nam: strong correlation with HIV and injection drug use', Western Pacific Surveillance and Response Journal, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.5365/wpsar.2019.10.1.002

Hammoud MA; Vaccher S; Jin F; Bourne A; Maher L; Holt M; Bavinton BR; Haire B; Degenhardt L; Grulich A; Prestage GP, 2019, 'HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Uptake Among Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia and Factors Associated With the Nonuse of PrEP Among Eligible Men: Results From a Prospective Cohort Study.', J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr, 81, pp. e73 - e84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000002047

Lea T; Hammoud M; Bourne A; Maher L; Jin F; Haire B; Bath N; Grierson J; Prestage G, 2019, 'Attitudes and Perceived Social Norms toward Drug Use among Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia', Substance Use and Misuse, 54, pp. 944 - 954, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2018.1552302

Gunaratnam P; Schierhout G; Brands J; Maher L; Bailie R; Ward J; Guy R; Rumbold A; Ryder N; Fairley CK; Donovan B; Moore L; Kaldor J; Bell S, 2019, 'Qualitative perspectives on the sustainability of sexual health continuous quality improvement in clinics serving remote Aboriginal communities in Australia.', BMJ Open, 9, pp. e026679, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026679

Prestage G; Maher L; Grulich A; Bourne A; Hammoud M; Vaccher S; Bavinton B; Holt M; Jin F, 2019, 'Brief Report: Changes in Behavior after PrEP Initiation among Australian Gay and Bisexual Men', Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 81, pp. 52 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/QAI.0000000000001976

Morris MD; Andrew E; Tan JY; Maher L; Hoff C; Darbes L; Page K, 2019, 'Injecting-related trust, cooperation, intimacy, and power as key factors influencing risk perception among drug injecting partnerships', Plos One, 14, pp. e0217811, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0217811

Brookfield S; Fitzgerald L; Selvey L; Maher L, 2019, 'Turning points, identity, and social capital: A meta-ethnography of methamphetamine recovery', International Journal of Drug Policy, 67, pp. 79 - 90, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.02.002

Kwon JA; Iversen J; Law M; Dolan K; Wand H; Maher L; Han A, 2019, 'Estimating the number of people who inject drugs and syringe coverage in Australia, 2005–2016', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 197, pp. 108 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.11.033

Rodrigo C; Leung P; Lloyd AR; Bull RA; Luciani F; Grebely J; Dore GJ; Applegate T; Page K; Bruneau J; Cox AL; Osburn W; Kim AY; Shoukry NH; Lauer GM; Maher L; Schinkel J; Prins M; Hellard M; Eltahla AA, 2019, 'Genomic variability of within-host hepatitis C variants in acute infection', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 26, pp. 476 - 484, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvh.13051

Page K; Carrico AW; Stein E; Evans J; Sokunny M; Maly P; Sophal C; Neak Y; Ngak S; McCulloch C; Maher L, 2019, 'Cluster randomized stepped-wedge trial of a multi-level HIV prevention intervention to decrease amphetamine-type stimulants and sexual risk in Cambodian female entertainment and sex workers', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 196, pp. 21 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.11.029

Sweeney S; Ward Z; Platt L; Guinness L; Hickman M; Hope V; Maher L; Iversen J; Hutchinson SJ; Smith J; Ayres R; Hainey I; Vickerman P, 2019, 'Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of existing needle and syringe programmes in preventing hepatitis C transmission in people who inject drugs', Addiction, 114, pp. 560 - 570, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.14519

Kimber J; Stoové M; Maher L, 2019, 'Mortality among people who inject drugs: Ten-year follow-up of the hepatitis C virus cohort', Drug and Alcohol Review, 38, pp. 270 - 273, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12884

Coupland H; White B; Bates A; Park JN; Iversen J; Maher L, 2019, 'Engaging people who inject drugs in hepatitis C virus testing and prevention through community-based outreach, in Sydney, Australia', Drug and Alcohol Review, 38, pp. 177 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12895

Coupland H; Page K; Stein E; Carrico A; Evans J; Dixon T; Sokunny M; Phou M; Maher L, 2019, 'Structural interventions and social suffering: Responding to amphetamine-type stimulant use among female entertainment and sex workers in Cambodia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 64, pp. 70 - 78, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.12.002

Iversen J; Dore GJ; Catlett B; Cunningham P; Grebely J; Maher L, 2019, 'Association between rapid utilisation of direct hepatitis C antivirals and decline in the prevalence of viremia among people who inject drugs in Australia', Journal of Hepatology, 70, pp. 33 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2018.09.030

Kwon JA; Dore GJ; Grebely J; Hajarizadeh B; Guy R; Cunningham EB; Power C; Estes C; Razavi H; Gray RT; Dunlop A; Zekry A; Lloyd A; Duvnjak A; Treloar C; Tyrrell H; George J; Iversen J; Marriott K; Crooks L; Maher L; Douglas M, 2019, 'Australia on track to achieve WHO HCV elimination targets following rapid initial DAA treatment uptake: A modelling study', Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 26, pp. 83 - 92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jvh.13013

Maher LV, 2019, 'Bone Lesions of Sarcoidosis', JCR Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, Publish Ahead of Print, pp. &na, http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/rhu.0000000000000785

Boyd J; Collins AB; Mayer S; Maher L; Kerr T; McNeil R, 2018, 'Gendered violence and overdose prevention sites: a rapid ethnographic study during an overdose epidemic in Vancouver, Canada', Addiction, 113, pp. 2261 - 2270, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.14417

Stone J; Fraser H; Lim AG; Walker JG; Ward Z; MacGregor L; Trickey A; Abbott S; Strathdee SA; Abramovitz D; Maher L; Iversen J; Bruneau J; Zang G; Garfein RS; Yen YF; Azim T; Mehta SH; Milloy MJ; Hellard ME; Sacks-Davis R; Dietze PM; Aitken C; Aladashvili M; Tsertsvadze T; Mravčík V; Alary M; Roy E; Smyrnov P; Sazonova Y; Young AM; Havens JR; Hope VD; Desai M; Heinsbroek E; Hutchinson SJ; Palmateer NE; McAuley A; Platt L; Martin NK; Altice FL; Hickman M; Vickerman P, 2018, 'Incarceration history and risk of HIV and hepatitis C virus acquisition among people who inject drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis', Lancet Infectious Diseases, 18, pp. 1397 - 1409, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30469-9

Underwood AP; Walker MR; Brasher NA; Eltahla AA; Maher L; Luciani F; Lloyd AR; Bull RA, 2018, 'Understanding the determinants of BnAb induction in acute HCV infection', Viruses, 10, pp. 659, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v10110659

Bajis S; Maher L; Treloar C; Hajarizadeh B; Lamoury FMJ; Mowat Y; Schulz M; Marshall AD; Cunningham EB; Cock V; Ezard N; Gorton C; Hayllar J; Smith J; Whelan M; Martinello M; Applegate TL; Dore GJ; Grebely J, 2018, 'Acceptability and preferences of point-of-care finger-stick whole-blood and venepuncture hepatitis C virus testing among people who inject drugs in Australia', International Journal of Drug Policy, 61, pp. 23 - 30, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.08.011

Chhim S; Chhea C; Sopheab H; Mathers BM; Kaldor J; Evans JL; Stein ES; Carrico A; Muth S; Song N; Maher L; Page K, 2018, 'Proportion and predictors of loss to follow-up in a longitudinal cohort study of female entertainment and sex workers in Cambodia', International Journal of STD and AIDS, 29, pp. 1295 - 1304, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956462418779471

Robinson M; Wilkinson RB; Fletcher R; Bruno R; Baker AL; Maher L; Wroe J; Dunlop AJ, 2018, 'Alcohol Text Messages: A Developmental Study', International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 16, pp. 1125 - 1139, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11469-017-9835-y

Guy RJ; Ward J; Causer LM; Natoli L; Badman SG; Tangey A; Hengel B; Wand H; Whiley D; Tabrizi SN; Shephard M; Fairley CK; Donovan B; Anderson DA; Regan DG; Maher L; Kaldor JM, 2018, 'Molecular point-of-care testing for chlamydia and gonorrhoea in Indigenous Australians attending remote primary health services (TTANGO): a cluster-randomised, controlled, crossover trial', Lancet Infectious Diseases, 18, pp. 1117 - 1126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(18)30429-8

Ward Z; Platt L; Sweeney S; Hope VD; Maher L; Hutchinson S; Palmateer N; Smith J; Craine N; Taylor A; Martin N; Ayres R; Dillon J; Hickman M; Vickerman P, 2018, 'Impact of current and scaled-up levels of hepatitis C prevention and treatment interventions for people who inject drugs in three UK settings—what is required to achieve the WHO's HCV elimination targets?', Addiction, 113, pp. 1727 - 1738, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.14217

Van de Ven K; Maher L; Wand H; Memedovic S; Jackson E; Iversen J, 2018, 'Health risk and health seeking behaviours among people who inject performance and image enhancing drugs who access needle syringe programs in Australia', Drug and Alcohol Review, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.12831

Sheppard-Law S; Zablotska-Manos I; Kermeen M; Holdaway S; Lee A; George J; Zekry A; Maher L, 2018, 'Utilisation of hepatocellular carcinoma screening in Australians at risk of hepatitis B virus-related carcinoma and prescribed anti-viral therapy', Journal of Clinical Nursing, 27, pp. 2673 - 2683, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jocn.14367

Jin F; Hammoud MA; Maher L; Degenhardt L; Bourne A; Lea T; Vaccher S; Grierson J; Haire BG; Prestage G, 2018, 'Age related prevalence and age related incidence of illicit drug use in a cohort of Australian gay and bisexual men: Results form the FLUX study', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 188, pp. 175 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.04.009

Duff P; Evans JL; Stein ES; Page K; Maher L; Kaldor J; Kien SP; Palefsky J; Sapphon V; Vun MC, 2018, 'High pregnancy incidence and low contraceptive use among a prospective cohort of female entertainment and sex workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia', BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 18, pp. 128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12884-018-1768-3

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