Research Officer, La Trobe University
Dion Kagan is a Research Officer at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS), La Trobe University, where he is a member of the Gender, Law and Drugs (GLaD) program. He has a multidisciplinary background spanning social and cultural research on sexuality, gender, community health, popular culture and technology. He is the author of 'Positive Images: Gay Men and the Culture of Post-Crisis' (Bloomsbury, 2018), and has published widely on the history, sociality and biopolitics of HIV/AIDS.
In the Gender, Law and Drugs program, Dion is currently working on an ARC-funded project addressing hepatitis C–related legal, policy and practice discrimination in a ‘post-cure’ world. Before commencing at La Trobe, he completed a PhD in Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne where he held several appointments in undergraduate and capstone teaching in Gender Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies and Screen Studies, and worked as a supervisor of Honours students across those programs. Since then, he has worked with researchers at the University of Melbourne, the University of Sydney, the Victorian College of the Arts, La Trobe University, Monash University and in private research consultancy settings on a range of ARC, university and government funded projects addressing sexuality, technology, community health, social services, media, education and social policy.
Dion is also an IPED-certified editor who has held roles in academic and trade book publishing, and an arts critic whose essays, articles and reviews have been published in The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, The Lifted Brow, Meanjin, The Age, The Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, Kill Your Darlings, Sissy Screens and more.
We're on track to eliminate hepatitis C, but stigma remains and reinfection is a risk
Dec 12, 2023 16:02 pm UTC| Health
Hepatitis C is a preventable but potentially life-threatening blood-borne virus. It primarily affects the liver and, if untreated, can lead to cirrhosis (scar damage) and cancer. When direct-acting antivirals for...
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