Health Sciences

Faculty of Health Sciences, Bendigo

School of Public Health

Department Health & Environment

Dr Jon Willis BA (Hons)(UNSW), M.Litt.(UNE), PhD (UQ) Senior Lecturer Room 1.17 Health Sciences Building Ph: 5444 7590 Fx: 5444 7977 Email: jon.willis@latrobe.edu.au

Teaching Responsiblities:

• Public Health Research
• Health Systems Policy
• Health Sociology
• Qualitative Research
• Epidemiology
• Research Methods
• Post-graduate supervision
  

Research Interests:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health
• Masculinity and health
• Sexuality, sex work and sexual health
• Qualitative and quantitative approaches to ethnographic research
• Technology and health
• Renal health and palliative care
• Living with chronic disease or illness
• Social and cultural theory

Publications

Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

Pitts MK, Fox C, Willis J & Anderson J (2007) What Do Gay Men Know About Human Papillomavirus? Australian Gay Men's Knowledge and Experience of Anal Cancer Screening and Human Papillomavirus. Sexually Transmitted Diseases. 34(3):170-173.

Willis J & Saunders M (2007). Research in a Post-Colonial World: The Example of Australian Aborigines. In M Pitts and A Smith (eds) Researching the Margins: Strategies for Ethical and Rigorous Research With Marginalised Communities. Palgrave McMillan: Basingstoke.

Willis J (2005). Sexual Cultures: Some Notes on Indigenous Australian Sexualities. In G. Hawkes and J Scott (eds) Perspectives in Human Sexuality. Oxford University Press: South Melbourne.

Willis J (2003) Condoms are for whitefellas: Barriers to Pitjantjatjara men’s use of safe sex technologies. Culture, Health and Sexuality 5(3): 203-217

Willis J (2003) Heteronormativity and the deflection of male same-sex attraction among the Pitjantjatjara people of Australia's Western Desert. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 5(2):137-151.

Willis J (2002). Numbers. LifeBlood: A magazine about how we live. 1(4): 6-7.

Willis J, Grierson J, Hurley M & Misson S (2002). Taking care of me, taking care of others: HIV positive gay men, treatments and safer relationships. In M. Hurley (ed.) Cultures of Care and Safe Sex Among HIV Positive Australians. Papers from the HIV Future I and II surveys and interviews. Monograph Series No . Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Research reports and monographs:

Willis J, Jenkinson K, Croy S, Greet B, Saunders M, Williams M & Murray M (2005). Findings of the Well Person’s Health Check – Bairnsdale. Community Report for the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Melbourne, Australia.

Willis J, Anderson I & Morris K (2005) Sexual Health Promotion for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People: A community guide to evidence-based best practice in social and behavioural interventions. Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra.

Morris K, Willis J, Anderson I, Croy S & McCall M. (2004) Research Gaps in Indigenous Sexual Health: Establishing evidence-based best practice for social and behavioural interventions – Technical Report. Office of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra.

Willis JM (2003). Yulara Native Title Compensation Claim: Expert Anthropological Report. Central Land Council, Alice Springs.

Sullivan K, Johnston L, Colyer C, Beale J, Willis J, Harrison J & Welsh K (2003). National Indigenous Palliative Care Needs Study: Final Report, April 2003. Rural Health and Palliative Care Branch, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra.

Willis J, McCall M, Greet B, Saunders M, Williams M & Murray M (2002). Findings of the Well Person’s Health Check – Echuca. Community Report for the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Melbourne, Australia.

Willis J, McCall M, Greet B, Saunders M, Williams M & Murray M (2002). Findings of the Well Person’s Health Check – Gunditjmara. Community Report for the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Melbourne, Australia.

Willis J, McCall M, Greet B, Saunders M, Williams M & Murray M (2002). Findings of the Well Person’s Health Check – Mungabareena. Community Report for the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Melbourne, Australia.

Willis J, McCall M, Greet B, Saunders M, Williams M & Murray M (2002). Findings of the Well Person’s Health Check – Rumbalara. Community Report for the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Melbourne, Australia.

Willis J, McCall M, Greet B, Saunders M, Williams M & Murray M (2002). Findings of the Well Person’s Health Check – Portland. Community Report for the Victorian Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation, Melbourne, Australia.

Willis J, McDonald K, Saunders M & Grierson J (2002). HIV Futures II: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Living with HIV. Monograph Series Number 30, The Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Conference Presentations:

International:

Willis J. The Role of People Living with HIV/AIDS in HIV Prevention. 18th World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education, Melbourne, April 2004.

Morris K & Willis J. Ethical Issues in Defensive Screening Practice. 18th World Conference on Health Promotion and Health Education, Melbourne, April 2004.

Willis J. & Saunders M. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: exploring racism and homophobia in the lives of gay-identified Aboriginal men in Melbourne Australia. Sex and Secrecy: 4th Conference of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 2003.

Willis J. The Worst of All Possible Worlds: Gay Indigenous Australians Living with HIV. Structural Inequality and HIV/AIDS at the Global and National Level Conference, Yale University, New Haven, April 2003.

Willis J. It’s Disturbing. XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, July 2002.

Willis J, Greet B, Saunders M, Williams M & Murray M. Sugar Coating the Pill: Using the well person’s health check to deliver population based sexual health screening. Poster exhibition at the XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, July 2002.

Willis J, Wilson G, Anderson IP, Rosenthal D, Smith A, Fairley C & McDonald K. Improving the sexual health of Indigenous Australians: An evaluation of the Tri-State HIV/STD project. Poster exhibition at the XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, July 2002.

Grierson JW, Misson S, McDonald K, Hurley M, Willis J & O’Brien M. From Here to Uncertainty: National shifts in ARC uptake, interruptions, experience and attitudes. Poster exhibition at the XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, July 2002.

McDonald K, Grierson JW, Hurley ME, Willis JM & Pitts MK. Gender differences in antiretroviral uptake and attitude in Australia. Poster exhibition at the XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, July 2002.

Grierson JW, Misson S, McDonald K, Hurley M, Willis J & O’Brien M. Live to Tell: Disclosure, support and collective identification among PLWHA. Poster exhibition at the XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, July 2002.

M Hurley, Grierson JW, Willis JM, McDonald KM & Pitts MK. HIV positive gay male sex requires new policy and education environments. XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, July 2002.

National:

Willis, J., Saunders, M., Grierson, J., Thorpe, R., Pitts, M.K., Hurley, M., and McDonald, K. (2006). ‘Disadvantage among Australian PLWHA who are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders: Findings from the HIV futures surveys’, 18th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, Melbourne, Australia, October 2006.

Willis J & Anderson I. (2005) Social and Behavioural Interventions in Indigenous Sexual Health: A Systematic Review to Establish Evidence-based Best Practice. Taking Control: Our Health, our future – Aboriginal Health Promotion conference 2005, Fremantle, November 2005.

Willis JM (2005) Is there gay social capital? Will more of it make us healthier? Health in Difference: Fifth national Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Health Conference, Melbourne, January 2005.

Saunders M, Willis JM, Grierson J, McDonald K, Hurley M, Pitts M. (2004). Investigating the Social World of Aboriginal People Living with HIV: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cohorts in the Australian "Futures" Studies. 16th Annual Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Conference, Canberra, September 2004.

Willis JM & Peterson MK. (2004). The Impact of Industry Structure and Social Organisation on Male Sex Worker Work Practice. 16th Annual Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Conference, Canberra, September 2004.

Willis J. Formal Human Rights Protections do not guarantee Freedom from stigma: The case of Aboriginal Australians living with HIV. Global Crisis: Local Action. 15th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, Cairns, October 2003.

Willis J & Saunders M. The HIV Futures 3 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cohort. Global Crisis: Local Action. 15th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, Cairns, October 2003.

Willis J. Till Death Us Do Part: Living in a serodiscordant relationship. Global Crisis: Local Action. 15th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, Cairns, October 2003.

Sullivan K, Willis J & Welsh K. The Role of Aboriginal Health Workers in Palliative Care. Fourth National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers Conference, Adelaide, August 2003.

Willis J. Where do treatment failure, treatment interruptions and sub-optimal adherence fit within HIV-positive cultures of care. 14th Annual Conference of the Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, Sydney, October 2002.

Grierson J, Pitts M, Misson S, Willis J, Hughes T, Saxton P & Whyte M. Sexual cultures, sexual governance and sexual practice among Australian and New Zealand gay men with HIV. 14th annual conference, Australasian Society for HIV Medicine, Sydney, October.

Willis J. Mapping Health Risk with Indigenous Men. Reproductive Health: Taking Care of Tomorrow’s World. Australian Tropical Health and Nutrition Conference, Brisbane, July 2002.

Willis J, McDonald K, Grierson J and Saunders M. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Living with HIV. Changing Risks Changing Communities 2002: HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis and Related Diseases Social Research Conference, National Centre for HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, May 2002.

Willis J, Grierson J & Hurley M. Voices. Changing Risks Changing Communities 2002: HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis and Related Diseases Social Research Conference, National Centre for HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, May 2002.

Willis J. Closing Plenary. National HIV Educators’ Conference. University of New South Wales, Sydney, May 2002.

Willis J. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Futures. Anwernekenhe III: Third National Indigenous Gay, Sistagirl and Transgender HIV/AIDS – Sexual Health Conference, Melbourne, May 2002.

Willis J. Rapporteur’s Report. Anwernekenhe III: Third National Indigenous Gay, Sistagirl and Transgender HIV/AIDS – Sexual Health Conference, Melbourne, May 2002.