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Anna Olsen BSci, BArts (Hons) (ANU) Current Position: PhD Student Contact Details: (Building 62, ANU map) National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health The Australian National University Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia T: +61 2 6125 5618 F: +61 2 6125 0740 E: anna.olsen@anu.edu.au

PhD Title

Choice or Chance: The social context of contraceptive use by women with Hepatitis C will investigate the reasons behind the low level of contraception among women with HCV and its implications for their reproductive and sexual health needs. It will do this by investigating the complex social contexts influencing women's motivations, beliefs, attitudes and their contraceptive practices and reproductive decisions.

Supervisors

• Dorothy Broom
• Cathy Banwell
• Phyll Dance
• Meredith Temple-Smith

Research Interests

• The anthropology of illicit drugs
• The anthropology of pharmaceuticals
• Medical anthropology