Mr Jack Wallace
Research Fellow
Faculty of Health Sciences
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and SocietyMelbourne (City)
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Research Fellow
Faculty of Health Sciences
Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and SocietyMelbourne (City)
Master of Social Sciences (International Development)
Executive Member of the Coalition for the Eradication of Viral Hepatitis in Asia and the Pacific.
Public Health
I have worked in the community, government and research sectors seeking to reduce the personal and community impact of blood borne viruses, particularly viral hepatitis. I commenced research work with the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society in 2005 initially as a casual research assistant, and then as a full time research only Research Officer and Research Fellow since 2007.
My role prior to undertaking full time research work was establishing the national peak organisation representing people with hepatitis C, Hepatitis Australia where I was the Executive Officer between 1998 and 2005. My previous positions included managing a peer-based injecting drug user organisation in Queensland and as the Principal Program Advisor – Hepatitis C for Queensland Health.
In my current position, I have led in initiating a program of qualitative investigation of non-clinical perspectives of chronic hepatitis B at individual and systems levels. I have been the principal investigator on three qualitative hepatitis B related studies, the National Hepatitis B Needs Assessment; A Situational Analysis of Chronic Hepatitis B in the Torres Strait, and Investigating General Practice and Hepatitis B. Other 2012 Projects include a survey of hepatitis B patients, a needs assessment of people with chronic hepatitis in China and a Viral Hepatitis Policy Survey and Assessment of Taiwan.
The other major research undertaken in the past 5 years has been as the lead researcher on a project titled Regulating Hepatitis C: Rights and Duties. This 3- year project looked at the regulatory frameworks operating across Australian adult correctional centres and needle and syringe programs and explores the impact of these regulations on the transmission of hepatitis C. The research recommended to Australian health authorities the need to reframe the regulatory environment for correctional settings to a human rights, rather than a security based framework
- Health Services and policy reform
Scholarly Book Chapters
Wallace, J., & Temple-Smith, M. Elements of a co-ordinated response. In G. Dore, M. Temple-Smith & A. Lloyd (Eds.), Hepatitis C: An Expanding Perspective (pp. 386-399). Melbourne: IP Communications. 2009
Huffam, S., Haber, P. Wallace, J. and Bradford, D. Talking with the patient: risk assessment and history-taking. In HIV, viral hepatitis and STIS: a guide for primary care. Australasian Society for HIV Medicine Inc. 2008
Dore, G., Wallace, J., Locarnini, S., Desmond, P., Gane, E. and Crawford, D. Hepatitis B in Australia: responding to a diverse epidemic. 2006
Loveday, S. and Wallace, J. Hepatitis C Councils in Australia, in Hepatitis C: an Australian perspective. 2001
Refereed Journal Articles
Temple-Smith, Meredith; Jenkinson, Karl and Wallace, Jack. Hepatitis C-related discrimination in pharmacy-based opioid replacement therapy programs: Does it exist? [online]. Australian Pharmacist, 2012
Wallace, J., McNally, S., Richmond, J., Hajarizadeh, B. and Pitts, M. (2011). Challenges to the effective delivery of health care to people with chronic hepatitis B in Australia. Sexual Health
Wallace, J., McNally, S., Richmond, J., Hajarizadeh, B. and Pitts, M. (2011). Managing chronic hepatitis B: A qualitative study exploring the perspectives of people living with chronic hepatitis B in Australia. BMC Research Notes, 4(45).
Other
Crooks, L., Godwin, J., Richmond, J., Savage, J., Wallace, J. and Ward, J. National Hepatitis B Strategy 2010-2013, 6th National HIV Strategy 2010-2013, 3rd National Hepatitis C Strategy 2010- 2013, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmissible Infections 2010 – 2013. 2010
Wallace, J., Hajarizadeh, B., Richmond, J. and McNally, S. Investigating General Practice and Hepatitis B. (2012) Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, Monograph No 83.
Wallace, J., Pitts, M., McNally, S., Ward, J., Nakata, Y. and Fagan, P. A Situational Analysis of Chronic Hepatitis B in the Torres Strait: We nab them and then we let them go, just like fish. (2011) Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, Monograph No 82.
Wallace, J., Pitts, M., McNally, S., Malkin, I., Temple-Smith, M. Smith, A. and Levy, M. (2010) Regulating Hepatitis C: Rights and Duties. Preventing Hepatitis C Transmission in Australian Adult Correctional Settings. Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society. Monograph No. 79
McNally S., Wallace, J. and Johnson, P. Report of the Evaluation of the Queensland Health Hepatitis C Shared Care Initiative. October 2009.
Wallace, J., McNally, S. and Richmond, J. National Hepatitis B Needs Assessment 2007. Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society. Monograph Number 64.
Bowden S, Conrad S, Harley H, Harvey P, McCaw R, Mitchell J, and Wallace J. 2001. Hepatitis C testing, p. 75-92, National Hepatitis C Resource Manual. Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, Canberra.