Informal talk: shaping understandings of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in rural Australia

Dr Karin Fisher

qualifications: PhD

contribution: original concept

position: Research academic

Australia

Workforce issues Population health issues Sexual Health Rural health

Rafat Hussain

qualifications: PhD

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Associate professor & Deputy head of school

Australia

My academic background spans clinical medicine, public health, & health services management. I have expertise across a range of disciplinary areas, and taught across a variety of units in public health, health management, international health, health promotion, health sciences and research methodologies - and across a range of courses and awards from Bachelors and Masters to Doctoral students. I have published extensively in high quality international journals and positively reviewed books: 6 book chapters, 64 refereed papers, 11 refereed conference proceedings and other scholarly works. I also have presented papers at over 70 research conferences. Many of my research publications are widely cited, with 1,946 citations to 102 published works in Google Scholar with an H-index of 26 and i10-index of 36 (Feb 2014).