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Learn more about the people who write for our website and see what they’ve written.
Learn more about the people who write for our website and see what they’ve written.
Authors
Associate Professor Graham Brown
he/him
Graham is the lead investigator on the W3 Project. He has been working and researching community-led health promotion, social change, and evaluation for more than 25 years.
Graham’s early work in social impact and community mobilisation was in the Australian HIV response. Through this be became an advocate for community-led and -owned evaluation and building evidence to advocate for structural and policy change.
Graham has a long history of collaborative research and advocacy with marginalised or underserved communities and their organisations. This has included community organisations and health services working in HIV, hepatitis C, sexual health, youth outreach, mental health, multicultural health, rural health, and domestic violence.
Petrina Hilton
she/her
Petrina joined the W3 Project Team at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society in 2020.
She has almost 10 years of experience working in health promotion with community-based and peer-led organisations and programs in Australia and Tonga.
Her work has primarily focused on improving health equity and outcomes among people living with HIV (PLHIV); lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) communities; people living with severe mental illness and/or psychosocial disability; and indigenous communities.
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Timothy Krulic
he/him
Timothy Krulic is a health promotion officer at Living Positive Victoria and a PhD candidate at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society.
His doctoral research is on an implementation study of Living Positive Victoria’s Peer Navigation Program.
W3 Framework
Posts by ‘W3 Framework’ were written by research project team members from the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health, and Society (ARCSHS).
Posts with no author specified were adapted from content written by Daniel Reeder and James Dunne between 2013 and 2020 for the original W3 Project website.
'W3 Framework' authors (from A-Z)
Daniel Reeders
they/them
Daniel was the first Project Officer for the W3 Project at ARCSHS. They helped develop the method, conduct the first partner workshops, and articulate the W3 Framework.
Daniel’s passion for peer knowledge comes from 15+ years working in HIV and viral hepatitis with communities including gay, bisexual, and other queer folks, and communities of migrants and refugees.
James Dunne
he/him
James worked as a Research Officer on Stages 2 and 3 of the W3 Project at ARCSHS.
His interest in the W3 Project stems from his experience working in policy roles within government and within peer-based drug user organisations, and his keen interest in understanding how the contributions of people with lived experience influence policy and practice.
Jen Johnson
she/her
Jen Johnson was a member of the W3 Project Research team until 2021, and is the former Program Coordinator of ARCSHS' Blood-Borne Virus (BBV) Sector Development Program .
The BBV Sector Development Program works to support and strengthen the Victorian BBV workforce to meet the challenges of elimination targets, new prevention technologies, and scaling up testing and treatment.
Dr Susan Chong
she/her
Susan is a Senior Lecturer in La Trobe University’s Department of Public Health and a Senior Research Fellow on ARCSHS' W3 Peer Insights Project.
Posts by 'W3 Framework' authors
Graham and Daniel share five surprising things they learned from peer workers about peer-based approaches.
W3 Guest Author
Posts by ‘W3 Guest Author’ were written by peer workers and their allies.
We want the W3 Framework website to be a space where our peer partners and colleagues can share their stories and experiences.
We hope this will help support other peer organisations, programs, and workers to improve and demonstrate the value of their own work.
W3 Guest Authors (from A-Z)
Annie Madden
she/her
Annie has written for the W3 Framework website in her roles as a PhD candidate at the University of New South Wales' Centre for Social Research in Health and as a Peer Specialist Consultant at 2SqPegs.
Charles Henderson
he/him
Charles has written for the W3 Framework website in his role as the Deputy CEO of the NSW Users and AIDS Association (NUAA).
Randelle Anderson
She/her
Randelle has written for the W3 Framework website in her role of Senior Communications Officer at Living Positive Victoria.
Sara Graham
she/her
Sara has written for the W3 Framework website in her role as Manager of Peer Support at Living Positive Victoria, coordinating its Peer Navigation Program and services for women, heterosexual men, and families.