Dr Michael Traeger

Research Officer

Taking students

Working groups

michael.traeger@burnet.edu.au

+6192822218

Background

Michael has worked at the Burnet Institute since 2017, and is an epidemiologist and post-doctoral research officer in the HIV Prevention and Surveillance & Evaluation working groups. Michael’s research involves analysing large surveillance data to examine epidemiological trends in infectious diseases and evaluate large-scale public health interventions, with a particular focus on HIV and bacterial STIs.

Michael is also a Research Fellow at the Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA, where he works on a range of projects related to HIV prevention among key populations.

Michael completed his PhD at Burnet Institute in 2022, where he explored the interplay between HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation and the epidemiology of bacterial STIs among gay and bisexual men in Australia.

Key research interests include: infectious disease epidemiology, disease surveillance, HIV & STI prevention, biostatistics and sexual health.

Qualifications

2023: Doctor of Philosophy (Epidemiology), Monash University
2017: Master of Science (Epidemiology), University of Melbourne
2014: Bachelor of Science, University of Melbourne

Awards

2023: NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow (Investigator Grant)
2022: Australasian Sexual and Reproductive Health Alliance (ASRHA) Young Leader Award 2022
2022: Fulbright Future Scholarship, Australian-American Fulbright Commission
2021: Gilead Australia Fellowship

Burnet publications

01 Aug 2023

Incidence and Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Among HIV-Negative Gay and Bisexual Men Using HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Michael W Traeger, Brendan Harney, Rachel Sacks‐Davis, Daniela K van Santen, Edwina Wright, Margaret Hellard, Joseph Doyle, Mark Stoové, Michael W Traeger, Brendan Harney

01 Aug 2023

Incidence and Prevalence of Hepatitis C Virus Among HIV-Negative Gay and Bisexual Men Using HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP): A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Michael W Traeger, Brendan Harney, Rachel Sacks‐Davis, Daniela K van Santen, Edwina Wright, Margaret Hellard, Joseph Doyle, Mark Stoové, Michael W Traeger, Brendan Harney

Current projects

Open to students

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.

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

The elimination of hepatitis C as a global public health threat

This project addresses critical knowledge gaps in Australian and global efforts to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030.

Eliminate C (EC) Victoria partnership

A partnership aimed at increasing hepatitis C treatment uptake among people who inject drugs (PWID) using nurse-led models of care in community and prison settings.