Dr John Wallace
Adjunct Lecturer

Dr John Wallace

Arts,Design & Architecture
Centre for Social Research in Health

Jack Wallace is an Adjunct Lecturer with the Centre for Social Research in Health and a Senior Research Officer with the Burnet Institute. 

Jack's research looks at hepatitis B as a phenomenon where the biomedical, social, economic and political intersect, and investigates how viral hepatitis affects individuals and communities and shapes social relations and social practices. His projects have included needs assessments of hepatitis B in Australia and China, policy assessments of viral hepatitis in Taiwan, Indonesia and Tasmania, and investigations into how people with hepatitis B and health care workers understand and respond to hepatitis B.

Jack has worked in community, government and research sectors seeking to reduce the personal and community impact of blood borne viruses, particularly viral hepatitis. His role prior to undertaking research work was establishing the national peak organisation representing people living with viral hepatitis, Hepatitis Australia where he was the Executive Officer between 1998 and 2005. His previous positions included managing a peer-based injecting drug user organisation in Queensland and as the Principal Program Advisor – Hepatitis C, for Queensland Health.

Jack is Chief Investigator on two Australian Research Council projects: Strengthening Community Responses to Chronic Hepatitis B, and “my health, our family”. Both of these projects looks at different aspects of the familial, social and cultural responses of hepatitis B to support the development of better public health policy, both nationally and internationally.

  • Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'The freighted social histories of HIV and hepatitis C: exploring service providers' perspectives on stigma in the current epidemics', Medical Humanities, 49, pp. 48 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2022-012382
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Professional perspectives on serodiscordant family service provision in the context of blood-borne viruses', Health Sociology Review, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2022.2110922
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Understanding ‘risk’ in families living with mixed blood-borne viral infection status: The doing and undoing of ‘difference’', Health (United Kingdom), 26, pp. 284 - 301, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363459320946469
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Commentary on Alex Stevens (2020) Critical realism and the ‘ontological politics of drug policy'', International Journal of Drug Policy, 84, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2020.102879
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Experience as Evidence: The Prospects for Biographical Narratives in Drug Policy', Contemporary Drug Problems, pp. 009145092091624 - 009145092091624, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0091450920916244
    Journal articles | 2020
    2020, 'Treading lightly: Finding the best way to use public health surveillance of hepatitis C diagnoses to increase access to cure', International Journal of Drug Policy, 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2019.11.004
    Journal articles | 2019
    Wallace J; Smith E; Hajarizadeh B; Richmond J; Lucke J, 2019, 'Addressing cultural diversity: the hepatitis B clinical specialist perspective', Ethnicity and Health, 24, pp. 816 - 828, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13557858.2017.1370540
    Journal articles | 2019
    2019, 'Accelerating the elimination of viral hepatitis: a Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology Commission', The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 4, pp. 135 - 184, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253(18)30270-X
    Journal articles | 2018
    Hendry NA; Brown G; Carman M; Ellard J; Wallace J; Dowsett GW, 2018, 'Untangling the conflation of ‘young adults’ and ‘young people’ in STI and sexual health policy and sex education', Sex Education, 18, pp. 527 - 540, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14681811.2018.1434069
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Eradicating hepatitis C: The need for a public health response', Global Public Health, 13, pp. 1254 - 1264, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2017.1342851
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Hidden Carers? a Scoping Review of the Needs Of Carers of People with HIV in the Contemporary Treatment Era', International Journal of Care and Caring, 2, pp. 529 - 549, http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/239788218X15411705099442
    Journal articles | 2018
    2018, 'Perceptions of HIV cure research among people living with HIV in Australia', PLoS ONE, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202647
    Journal articles | 2017
    Wallace J; Pitts M; Liu C; Lin V; Hajarizadeh B; Richmond J; Locarnini S, 2017, 'More than a virus: A qualitative study of the social implications of hepatitis B infection in China', International Journal for Equity in Health, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12939-017-0637-4
    Journal articles | 2017
    2017, 'Families Living with Blood-Borne Viruses: The Case for Extending the Concept of “Serodiscordance”', Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4352783
    Journal articles | 2016
    Hajarizadeh B; Richmond J; Ngo N; Lucke J; Wallace J, 2016, 'Hepatitis B-related concerns and anxieties among people with chronic hepatitis B in Australia', Hepatitis Monthly, 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.5812/hepatmon.35566
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Essential components in developing public policy to control viral hepatitis: lessons from Taiwan', Hepatology International, 10, pp. 355 - 362, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12072-015-9660-y
    Journal articles | 2016
    2016, 'Torres Strait Islanders' understandings of chronic hepatitis B and attitudes to treatment', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 22, pp. 316 - 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PY14130
    Journal articles | 2015
    Brown G; Reeders D; Dowsett GW; Ellard J; Carman M; Hendry N; Wallace J, 2015, 'Investigating combination HIV prevention: Isolated interventions or complex system', Journal of the International AIDS Society, 18, http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.18.1.20499
    Journal articles | 2015
    Hajarizadeh B; Wallace J; Richmond J; Ngo N; Enright C, 2015, 'Hepatitis B knowledge and associated factors among people with chronic hepatitis B', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12378
    Journal articles | 2015
    Hajarizadeh B; Wallace J; Richmond J; Ngo N; Enright C, 2015, 'Hepatitis B knowledge and associated factors among people with chronic hepatitis B', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 39, pp. 563 - 568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12378
    Journal articles | 2015
    Richmond J; Hajarizadeh B; Wallace J, 2015, 'Patients' perspectives on the delivery of hepatitis B management and care', Australian family physician, 44, pp. 346
    Journal articles | 2015
    Stoové M; Treloar CJ; Maher L; Tyrrell H; Wallace J, 2015, 'Salvaging a prison needle and syringe program trial in australia requires leadership and respect for evidence', Medical Journal of Australia, 203, pp. 319 - 320, http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/mja15.00523
    Journal articles | 2014
    Olsen A; Wallace J; Maher L, 2014, 'Responding to Australia's National Hepatitis B Strategy 2010-13: Gaps in knowledge and practice in relation to Indigenous Australians', Australian Journal of Primary Health, 20, pp. 134 - 142, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/PY12162
    Journal articles | 2013
    Wallace J; Hajarizadeh B; Richmond J; McNally S, 2013, 'Challenges in managing patients in Australia with chronic hepatitis B: The General Practitioners' perspective', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 37, pp. 405 - 410, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12127
    Journal articles | 2012
    Wallace J; McNally S; Richmond J; Hajarizadeh B; Pitts M, 2012, 'Challenges to the effective delivery of health care to people with chronic hepatitis B in Australia', Sexual Health, 9, pp. 131 - 137, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/SH10137
    Journal articles | 2012
    2012, 'Managing chronic hepatitis B The role of the GP', Australian Family Physician, 41, pp. 893 - 898, http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=896906313252806;res=IELHEA
    Journal articles | 2011
    Wallace J; McNally S; Richmond J; Hajarizadeh B; 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, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-4-45
  • Reports | 2020
    2020, my health, our family: documenting stories of family life in the context of HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C (summary report), UNSW Centre for Social Research in Health, Sydney, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/5facbe6ba9ac8
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    Newman CE; Persson A; Drysdale K; Rance J; Hamilton M; valentine K; bryant J; Wallace J, 2018, '"I found out I have HIV but it's all good, I'm on medication": The deployment of biomedical technologies in HIV and viral hepatitis family disclosure narratives', presented at 2018 In Sickness and in Health Conference, Sydney, 07 June 2018 - 09 June 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, 'Exploring the role of families in HIV treatment decisions and practices.', presented at Australasian HIV Conference, Sydney, 24 September 2018 - 26 September 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, 'Hidden carers? A scoping review of the needs of informal carers of people with HIV in the contemporary treatment era', presented at Australasian HIV Conference, Sydney, 24 September 2018 - 26 September 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, 'Hidden carers? Understanding the needs of carers of people with HIV in the contemporary treatment era.', presented at Carers NSW 2018 Biennial Conference, Auckland, 01 November 2018 - 03 November 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, 'Mediating biosocial possibilities: The deployment of biomedical technologies in HIV and viral hepatitis family disclosure narratives', presented at 2018 annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science: TRANSnational STS, Sydney, 24 September 2018 - 26 September 2018
    Conference Presentations | 2018
    2018, 'Open doors and family secrets: Negotiating communication agreements among families affected by HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C', presented at IUSTI Asia Pacific Sexual Health Congress 2018, Auckland, 01 November 2018 - 03 November 2018