Honorary Professor Suzanne Fraser

Suzanne Fraser is Honorary Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health at the University of New South Wales. Her previous appointment was as Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University.

Suzanne's PhD is in Gender Studies, and her research focuses on the body, gender, health and the self. She is the author of a number of books on the body and health in society and culture. Her most recent book is entitled Habits: Remaking addiction, co-authored with David Moore and Helen Keane, and her previous works cover a range of topics. Her first book, Cosmetic Surgery, Gender and Culture, was based on her PhD research. Later books focused on methadone maintenance treatment (Substance and substitution: Methadone subjects in liberal societies, with kylie valentine, 2008), hepatitis C (Making disease, making citizens: The politics of hepatitis C, with Kate Seear, 2011) and vanity, the body and the self: Vanity: 21st century selves (with Claire Tanner and JaneMaree Maher, 2013). She has also co-edited a collection of essays on drugs and addiction (The drug effect: Health, crime and society, with David Moore, 2011).

Over the years Suzanne has held many competitive grants, and has also worked on a range of government-funded projects with government partners including the Commonwealth Department of Health, the Victorian Department of Health, and South Western Sydney Local Health District Drug Health Services.

Suzanne has held a range of refereed journal editorial roles:
• Associate Editor, Contemporary Drug Problems
• Editorial Board Member:
o International Journal of Drug Policy
o Addiction Research & Theory
o Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy

Suzanne's research has been funded by a variety of grants from university, government and national competitive sources.

National competitive grants

•  Fraser, Treloar, Moore, Edwards, Birbilis, Lived experiences of treatment for hepatitis C in Australia. ARC Discovery Project (2020 – 21, total: $355,501)
•  Seear, Fraser, Valentine, Farrugia, Edwards, Jeffcote, Addressing hepatitis C-related discrimination in a post-cure world. ARC Discovery Project (2020 – 22, total: $560,286)
• Fraser, Dwyer, Dietze, Neale and Strang, Understanding the impediments to uptake and diffusion of take-home naloxone. ARC Discovery Project (2017 – 19, total: $502,500)
• Fraser, Moore,Seear, Aitken and Stanton, Understanding performance and image enhancing drug injecting in Australia. ARC Discovery Project (2017 – 19, total: $472,000)
• Fraser, Kokanovic, Moore, Treloar and Dunlop, Experiences of addiction, treatment and recovery: An online resource. ARC Discovery Project (2014 – 16, total: $499,000)
• Fraser, Analysing and comparing concepts of addiction for improved social and health outcomes in Australia. ARC Future Fellowship (2012 – 2015, total: $703,000)
• Treloar, Fraser, Bryant and Rhodes, Understanding and preventing hepatitis C transmission in sexual partnerships. NHMRC Project Grant (2012 – 2014, total: $370,940)
• Fraser, Wright, Maher and Petersen, Improving Australia’s response to childhood obesity: Prevention education and its impact on mothers and families. ARC Discovery Grant (2011 – 2012, total: $90,000)
• Fraser, Treloar and Moore, Under construction: the social and cultural politics of hepatitis C. ARC Discovery Grant (2008 – 2010, total: $95,000)
• Kippax, Wodak, Treloar and Fraser, Comparing the role of takeaways in methadone maintenance treatment in NSW and Victoria, NHMRC Project Grant (2004 – 2006, total: $295,125)

Selected public sector grants

• Fraser, BBV/STI Surveillance and Research Programme, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing – Health Surveillance Fund, 2019–23: $1,456,000
• Power, Bourne, Fraser, Waling, Farrugia, Building an integrated approach to supporting sexual health promotion and education among young people, Australian Department of Health and Aged Care, Blood Borne Viruses (BBV) and Sexually Transmissible Infections (STI) Research Program, 2021 round, 2022–2026: $1,394,000
• Fraser, Farrugia, Fomiatti, Ellard, Reducing stigma and discrimination associated with hepatitis C: Developing a stigma reduction toolkit for the Victorian healthcare workforce, 2021–2022, Victorian Department of Health: $150,447
• Fraser, Fomiatti, Understanding experiences of telehealth care delivery for hepatitis C treatment in Australia, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing, 2020–21: $230,000
• Bourne, Fraser, Carman, Lyons, Understanding service support needs of LGBTIQ people experiencing family, domestic and sexual violence, Australian Government Department of Social Services 2021–2022 $549,105
•  Fraser, Farrugia, Moore, Edwards, South West Sydney Drug Health Services grant. Assertive youth outreach in SWSLHD: Program and participant aims, priorities and outcomes, 2018-19: $50,000
•  Fraser, Farrugia, Edwards and Hocking, South West Sydney Drug Health Services grant. Lived experiences of stigma and discrimination among SWSLHD drug health service users: a qualitative study, 2018: $50,000
• Fraser, Fomiatti, Edwards and Hocking, South West Sydney Drug Health Services grant. ‘Experiences of heavy alcohol consumption and dependence in SWS: A new module for Livesofsubstance.org, 2018: $50,000
• Fraser, Medical and Health Research Infrastructure Fund (WA) Grant, 2017: $18,686
• Fraser, Medical and Health Research Infrastructure Fund (WA) Grant, 2016: $17,549
• Treloar, Fraser, Bryant, Booker, Technical Review of Hepatitis C Health Promotion Resources. NSW Health Department Project Grant, 2010: $52,547
• Treloar, Bryant, Fraser, Injecting practice among heterosexual hepatitis C sero-discordant couples. South East Sydney Area Health Service Project Grant, 2008: $30,000
• Treloar, Bryant, Fraser, Hopwood, Hepatitis C surveillance. NSW Health Department Project Grant, 2007 – 2008: $295,474

Suzanne has supervised many students to completion and has also produced a range of media outputs such as websites, magazine articles and Radio National documentaries.