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Jason Asselin

Co-Head, Surveillance and Data Linkage group

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Jason Asselin

Background

Jason joined Burnet Institute after eight years of working in HIV community-based prevention and support in both Toronto and Melbourne. Building on this experience, Jason joined the Burnet in 2013 to lead the national coordination of the COUNT study, which investigated the prevalence of undiagnosed HIV among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBM) in Australian cities. Since then, he has developed expertise in the working with surveillance data and systems, and as the Manager of the Surveillance and Evaluation Working Group leads the ACCESS project, a national sentinel surveillance system of clinical services and laboratories, monitoring blood-borne viruses (BBV) and sexually transmissible infections (STI). Jason has an interest in the epidemiology of BBVs and STIs among GBM and the use of surveillance data to monitor and evaluate new interventions.

Qualifications

  • 2019: Master of Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Australia;
  • 2005: Grad Dip Health Promotion, Centennial College, Toronto, Canada;
  • 2004: BSc (Hons), University of Toronto, Canada

Burnet publications

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26 Mar 2025

Changing patterns of opioid agonist therapy prescribing in a network of specialised clinics providing care to people with opioid use disorder in Victoria, Australia, 2015 to 2023

Drug and Alcohol Review

Joshua Dawe, M. David Curtis, Jason Asselin, Charles Henderson, Paul Dietze, Margaret Hellard, Mark Stoové

30 Nov 2024

Phenotyping people with a history of injecting drug use within electronic medical records using an interactive machine learning approach

npj Digital Medicine

Carol El‐Hayek, Thi Nguyen, Margaret Hellard, M. David Curtis, Rachel Sacks‐Davis, Jason Asselin, Anna L. Wilkinson, Victoria Polkinghorne

24 Aug 2024

Syphilis testing, incidence, and reinfection among gay and bisexual men in Australia over a decade spanning HIV PrEP implementation: an analysis of surveillance data from 2012 to 2022

The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific

Michael W. Traeger, Caroline Taunton, Jason Asselin, Margaret Hellard, Mark Stoové

Current projects

Informing priorities in the HIV response in Australia
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Informing priorities in the HIV response in Australia

Projects include epidemiological analyses examining the coverage and relative effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions including HIV PrEP and HIV treatment-as-prevention and more.

ACCESS: Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance of Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood Borne Viruses
Open to students

ACCESS: Australian Collaboration for Coordinated Enhanced Sentinel Surveillance of Sexually Transmissible Infections and Blood Borne Viruses

ACCESS is a national sentinel surveillance network of sexually transmissible infections and blood-borne viruses.

Past projects

ACCESS Myanmar: Assessing the feasibility of an integrated HIV cascade of care surveillance system in Myanmar

ACCESS Myanmar: Assessing the feasibility of an integrated HIV cascade of care surveillance system in Myanmar

ACCESS Myanmar will implement and evaluate an electronic health records data linkage system that effectively monitors the progress of patients through HIV testing and treatment episodes of care across a network of partnering community and government services.

COUNT: Community-based undiagnosed infection and HIV testing study

COUNT: Community-based undiagnosed infection and HIV testing study

This study will deliver HIV testing to gay and bisexual men in community settings, provide test results and estimate HIV prevalence.

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