Mr Anthony K J Smith

Anthony K J Smith is a Research Officer and Scientia Doctoral Candidate at the Centre for Social Research in Health, where he has been conducting social research on health, gender and sexuality, especially related to HIV prevention, surveillance, and clinical care; bioethics in HIV surveillance; and digital health. He uses qualitative methodologies, particularly interviews and thematic analysis.

Prior to commencing his doctoral study, he worked full-time from 2015-2018 as a Peer Educator at a sexual health clinic operated by the Western Australian AIDS Council (WAAC) in Perth, Western Australia.

Anthony is an Editorial Advisory Board member for Health Sociology Review (2020-present), a current member of the ACON Research Ethics Review Committee (2020-present) and is a member of the National Program Committee for the 2022 ASHM HIV & Sexual Health Conferences. Anthony has also been involved with The Australian Sociological Association, including as the Postgraduate Portfolio Leader (2020 - 2021), a member of the Postgraduate Sub-Committee (2019-2020), and a co-convener of the Health thematic group (2019-2021).

Anthony's doctoral research project, PrEP in Practice: Clinician Perspectives on Prescribing PrEP in Australia, is supervised by Martin Holt, Bridget Haire, and Christy Newman. The study investigates doctor and nurse perspectives of providing HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in New South Wales and Western Australia. Through multiple qualitative methods, the study explores how clinicians engage with new areas of practice, as well as understanding how clinicians negotiate science, clinical guidelines, uncertainty, risk, and the complex lives of patients.

Anthony has also worked across a number of other projects, including:

• Collaborations with Assistant Professor Stephen Molldrem at the Institute for Bioethics and Health Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston.
• Evidence and Implementing Interventions in a Viral Elimination Era (Research Officer)
• Trust in Digital Health (Research Officer)
• 'Waiting to be seen: social perspectives on trans health' special issue of Health Sociology Review (Guest co-editor)
• my health, our family: documenting stories of family life in the context of HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C (Research Officer)
• Enhancing Tasmanian Health Professionals’ Capacity for LGBTI-Inclusive Care (University of Tasmania; Research Assistant)
• Understanding disparities in PrEP Access (Research Officer)