Dr Elena Cama

Dr Elena Cama is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. She is a mixed-methods researcher with a background in criminology, social science, and public health. Her research has focused on experiences, impacts, and responses to marginalisation, discrimination, and violence. This work has included research on sexual harms experienced in a range of contexts, including those facilitated via dating and hook-up apps, in the context of using taxi and rideshare services, in the night-time economy, and in higher education settings. It has also included a focus on stigma and discrimination targeted at people affected by blood-borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections.

Her PhD thesis examined experiences, impacts, and responses to sexual harms facilitated through dating and hookup platforms, for which she was awarded a Dean's Award for Outstanding PhD Theses in 2022.

She is currently working on a national study, which aims to develop and trial a new and novel stigma reduction intervention among health workers to reduce stigma and discrimination targeted at people affected by blood-borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections.