Our Team
Chief Investigators
Dr David Carter
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Dr David Carter is a Scientia Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law & Justice at the University of New South Wales. His work supports the study and deployment of legal, regulatory and governance strategies to advance both the quality and safety of healthcare and better outcomes for those affected by disease and injury. His expertise lies at the intersection between medical and health law, public health law and the criminal law. He is Lead Chief-Investigator of the Health+Law Partnership, and currently serves on the board of a number of health-related agencies, including the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre, and is the Chair of the Ramsay Health Care Human Research Ethics Committee A.
Dr Anthea Vogl
Faculty of Law, UTS
Dr Anthea Vogl is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Her areas of expertise are refugee and immigration law. Anthea runs the clinical refugee law program at UTS Law and is currently co-leading national grants on community refugee sponsorship in Australia and the legal needs and health requirements imposed on non-citizens living with blood borne viruses. She is an Associate Co-Director of Border Criminologies at the Oxford University and author of the book, Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination, released in 2024.
Dr James Brown
Professor, Official Statistics, Head of Discipline, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Dr James Brown is an applied statistician with 20 years’ experience working with health survey data on issues relating to sexual health, contraceptive use, and HIV. He spent 10 years in China collaboratively designing and analysing surveys to evaluate UNFPA’s County Programs covering family planning and reproductive health. Since moving to Australia in 2013, his collaborations have moved to cover some of the legal aspects of healthcare, leading to his recent work with Dr David Carter investigating healthcare regulation.
Dr Hamish Robertson
Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Social Work, QUT
Dr Hamish Robertson is a health geographer with 25 years’ experience in health, aged and disability care. Teaching in health services management, he sees the connections between health, law and service delivery as important in addressing unmet needs. His focus includes cross-cultural research, chronic disease, and service design and delivery.
Partner Investigators
Lucy Clynes
CEO, Hepatitis Australia
Lucy Clynes is the CEO of Hepatitis Australia - the peak community organisation to progress national action on issues of importance to people affected by hepatitis B and hepatitis C.
Lucy is an advocacy specialist with peak body governance experience and a track record of building strategic partnerships to achieve policy and funding outcomes. She was previously a practicing lawyer and held key policy positions in both state and federal government, including serving as Deputy Chief of Staff to a government minister.
Vikas Parwani
Principal Solicitor, HIV/AIDS Legal Centre (HALC)
Vikas Parwani is Principal Solicitor at the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre (HALC). He received his Juris Doctor from the University of New South Wales in 2012 and was admitted as a lawyer in the NSW Supreme Court the same year. Vikas is an accredited specialist in Immigration law and has briefed in test cases before the Full Federal Court of Australia. In addition, he has assisted asylum seekers at the Manus Island Detention Centre in Papua New Guinea with their claims for protection. Vikas has a particular interest in legislative initiatives to improve harm reduction, and in improving access to justice for marginalised communities.
Aaron Cogle
Executive Director, NAPWHA
Aaron Cogle is Executive Director of the National Association of People with HIV (NAPWHA), and a member of the governing body of the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre. He is a NSW lawyer with qualifications in International Trade and Commerce Law from Staffordshire University in the UK.
Benjamin Riley
Policy and Public Affairs Manager, ASHM
Benjamin Riley is the policy advocacy lead for ASHM, Australia’s peak body representing the clinical workforce in HIV, viral hepatitis and sexual health. Benjamin coordinates policy advocacy activities across ASHM, with a focus on government engagement. He has led campaigns to reform federal and state government legislation, and has provided input into key national strategy documents to better enable the clinical workforce to support people living with and affected by blood-borne viruses and STIs.
Project Team
Katrina Mathieson
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Katrina Mathieson is an experienced and creative project management and fundraising professional, having worked in various roles within the corporate, arts, and health & community sectors over the past 20 years. At the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law & Justice, Katrina is the Research Coordinator for Health+Law, where she coordinates project activities, with a particular focus on the Legal Needs Study (LeNS).
Rhys Evans
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Rhys Evans is a Research Assistant at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law & Justice, and is undertaking a PhD at UTS Law complementing the Health+Law project aims of understanding the legal barriers to testing and treatment with a focus on the experience of people living with Blood Borne Viruses in the criminal legal system. At Health+Law, Rhys provides law and policy expertise, and helps interface with state and territory partner organisations. Rhys was previously the Project, Policy and Law Reform Solicitor at the HIV/AIDS Legal Centre.
Dr Dion Kagan
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Dr Dion Kagan is a humanities and social sciences researcher with an interest in blood-borne viruses and the health of vulnerable communities. He is a Research Associate on the Health+Law partnership at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law & Justice, working primarily on data analysis and reporting. Dion recently completed a major project on policy, legal and lived experience aspects of hepatitis C, and previously he has worked on a range of social research projects addressing HIV, sexuality, media, technology and public health. Dion completed a PhD in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne.
Louisa Luong
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Louisa Luong is a Research Assistant at Health+Law. She has a background in migration law, and was a solicitor at Refugee Advice and Casework Service (RACS) providing casework and legal advice across a range of migration matters at Departmental, IAA and AAT review stages. She has worked closely in the community with clients from torture and trauma backgrounds, women who have experienced domestic, family or gender-based violence, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, stateless people, and unaccompanied minors. Prior to legal practice, she was the coordinator of the Afghanistan Crisis Response Clinic at RACS, which involved assisting clients in reuniting with family members affected by the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan through offshore humanitarian and family stream visa pathways.
Daniel Storer
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Daniel Storer MPH is a sociological researcher whose work focuses on blood-borne viruses, sexual health and affected communities in Australia. Daniel is a Research Assistant at the Faculty of Law & Justice and a PhD student at the School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney. Prior to joining Health+Law, Daniel was a Research Officer at the Kirby Institute and the Centre for Social Research in Health, UNSW Sydney working on qualitative interview studies and online quantitative studies. Daniel has also worked in the HIV community sector at the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (now Health Equity Matters) between 2017-2020.
Cara Bruce
Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney
Cara Bruce is a Research Assistant at the University of New South Wales, Faculty of Law & Justice, and is undertaking a Juris Doctor at the University of Technology Sydney. Prior to joining Health+Law, Cara worked at ASHM Health for four years (previously known as the Australasian Society for HIV, Viral Hepatitis and Sexual Health Medicine). Cara is interested in the intersection of public health and the law.