Our Team
Chief Investigators
Dr David Carter
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Dr David Carter is a Scientia Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice at the University of New South Wales. His work supports the study and deployment of legal, regulatory and governance strategies to advance both the quality and safety of healthcare and better outcomes for those affected by disease and injury. His expertise lies at the intersection between medical and health law, public health law and the criminal law. He is Lead Chief-Investigator of the Health+Law Partnership, and currently serves on the board of a number of health-related agencies, including the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre, and is the Chair of the Ramsay Health Care Human Research Ethics Committee A.
Dr Anthea Vogl
Faculty of Law, UTS
Dr Anthea Vogl is a Senior Lecturer at UTS Faculty of Law. Her research addresses refugee and immigration law, and racialised regulation of non-citizens and the border. Dr Vogl is admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court of NSW and has practised in refugee and migration law and advocacy. She is currently co-leading an Australian Research Council Discovery Project examining the privatisation of refugee reception and resettlement and is an Associate Director of Border Criminologies at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminology.
Dr James Brown
Professor, Official Statistics, Head of Discipline, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Dr James Brown is an applied statistician with 20 years’ experience working with health survey data on issues relating to sexual health, contraceptive use, and HIV. He spent 10 years in China collaboratively designing and analysing surveys to evaluate UNFPA’s County Programs covering family planning and reproductive health. Since moving to Australia in 2013, his collaborations have moved to cover some of the legal aspects of healthcare, leading to his recent work with Dr David Carter investigating healthcare regulation.
Dr Hamish Robertson
Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Social Work, QUT
Dr Hamish Robertson is a health geographer with 25 years’ experience in health, aged and disability care. Teaching in health services management, he sees the connections between health, law and service delivery as important in addressing unmet needs. His focus includes cross-cultural research, chronic disease, and service design and delivery.
Partner Investigators
Andrea Pizzie
Policy Analyst Lead, Hepatitis Australia
Alexandra Stratigos
Principal Solicitor, HIV/AIDS Legal Centre (HALC)
Alexandra Stratigos is the Principal Solicitor of the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre, and Industry Fellow of the Faculty of Law at UTS. In her role as Principal Solicitor, Alexandra has successfully completed a number of test cases in the areas of HIV and the law, including on criminal transmission of HIV and on healthcare workers with HIV performing exposure-prone procedures. She has also presented at national and international conferences on HIV and migration, criminal transmission of HIV, and the use of strategic litigation to address systemic injustices.
Aaron Cogle
Executive Director, NAPWHA
Aaron Cogle is Executive Director of the National Association of People with HIV (NAPWHA), and a member of the governing body of the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre. He is a NSW lawyer with qualifications in International Trade and Commerce Law from Staffordshire University in the UK.
Benjamin Riley
Policy and Public Affairs Manager, ASHM
Benjamin Riley is the policy advocacy lead for ASHM, Australia’s peak body representing the clinical workforce in HIV, viral hepatitis and sexual health. Benjamin coordinates policy advocacy activities across ASHM, with a focus on government engagement. He has led campaigns to reform federal and state government legislation, and has provided input into key national strategy documents to better enable the clinical workforce to support people living with and affected by blood-borne viruses and STIs.
Project Team
Katrina Mathieson
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Katrina Mathieson is an experienced and creative project management and fundraising professional, having worked in various roles within the corporate, arts, and health & community sectors over the past 20 years. At the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law & Justice, Katrina is the Research Coordinator for Health+Law, where she coordinates project activities, with a particular focus on the Legal Needs Study (LeNS).
Rhys Evans
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Rhys Evans is a Research Assistant at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law & Justice, and is undertaking a PhD at UTS Law complementing the Health+Law project aims of understanding the legal barriers to testing and treatment with a focus on the experience of people living with Blood Borne Viruses in the criminal legal system. At Health+Law, Rhys provides law and policy expertise, and helps interface with state and territory partner organisations. Rhys was previously the Project, Policy and Law Reform Solicitor at the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre.
Cara Bruce
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Cara Bruce is a Research Assistant at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law & Justice, and is undertaking a Juris Doctor at the University of Technology Sydney. Prior to joining Health+Law, Cara worked at ASHM Health for four years (previously known as the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine). Cara is interested in the intersection of public health and the law.
Dr Dion Kagan
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Dr Dion Kagan is a humanities and social sciences researcher with an interest in blood-borne viruses and the health of vulnerable communities. He is a Research Associate on the Health+Law partnership at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law & Justice, working primarily on data analysis and reporting. Dion recently completed a major project on policy, legal and lived experience aspects of hepatitis C, and previously he has worked on a range of social research projects addressing HIV, sexuality, media, technology and public health. Dion completed a PhD in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.
Georgia Neaverson
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Georgia Neaverson is a Research Assistant at Health+Law. Her work focuses on reviewing primary and secondary literature relevant to HIV and Hepatitis B. Georgia is currently completing a Bachelor of Laws/Bachelor of Business (Finance) at UTS Law and also works as a paralegal in intellectual property law.
Vale Prof Joanne Travaglia
Head of School, Public Health and Social Work, QUT
Professor Joanne Travaglia was a health sociologist. Before joining QUT in late 2022, she was Director of the Centre for Health Services Management at UTS. Her work focused on the equity of health and social care services and the experiences of vulnerable individuals and groups.
Joanne is deeply missed by her colleagues and friends at Health+Law.
Louisa Luong
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Louisa Luong is a Research Assistant at Health+Law. She has a background in migration law, and was a solicitor at Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) providing casework and legal advice across a range of migration matters at Departmental, IAA and AAT review stages. She has worked closely in the community with clients from torture and trauma backgrounds, women who have experienced domestic, family or gender-based violence, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, stateless people, and unaccompanied minors. Prior to legal practice, she was the coordinator of the Afghanistan Crisis Response Clinic at RACS, which involved assisting clients in reuniting with family members affected by the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan through offshore humanitarian and family stream visa pathways.
Jordan Roods
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Jordan Roods is a Research Assistant at Health+Law. His work primarily involves interviewing research participants living with blood-borne viruses to better understand the legal and health issues they have experienced. Jordan is also a PhD candidate at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, UTS. He holds a combined Bachelor of Communication (Social & Political Sciences) and Bachelor of Laws (First Class Honours) at UTS, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Professional Legal Practice at UTS.