By Professor Lisa Maher

Journal articles

Walker S; Rathnayake K; Dietze P; Higgs P; Ward B; Hellard M; Doyle J; Stoove M; Maher L, 2025, 'Disproportionate, differential and targeted treatment: people who use drugs’ experiences of policing during the COVID-19 pandemic', Health and Justice, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40352-024-00314-4

Price O; Maher L; Peacock A; Zolala F; Degenhardt L; Dietze P; Larney S; Agramunt S; Colledge-Frisby S; Mathers B; Lewer D; Sutherland R, 2025, 'Changing age profile and incidence of injecting drug use initiation among people in Australia who inject drugs: evidence from two national repeated cross-sectional studies', Lancet Regional Health Western Pacific, 57, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2025.101548

Freestone J; Xiao BJ; Siefried KJ; Bourne A; Ezard N; Maher L; Stirling R; Degenhardt L; Varma R; Prestage G; Hammoud M, 2025, 'Exploring experiences of talk therapies among gay and bisexual men seeking to reduce or abstain from using crystal methamphetamine in the context of chemsex', Drug and Alcohol Review, 44, pp. 711 - 722, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13999

Stewart AC; Hickman M; Agius PA; Scott N; Stone J; Roxburgh A; O'Keefe D; Higgs P; Kerr T; Stoové MA; Thompson A; Crawford S; Norman J; Vella-Horne D; Lloyd Z; Clark N; Maher L; Dietze P, 2025, 'Supervised Injecting Room Cohort Study (SIRX): study protocol', BMJ Open, 15, pp. e091337, http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091337

Speed KA; McNeil R; Hayashi K; Maher L; Boyd J, 2025, '‘It just doesn't stop’: Perspectives of women who use drugs on increased overdoses during the COVID-19 pandemic', Drug and Alcohol Review, 44, pp. 602 - 612, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13996

Curtis M; Quinn B; Stone J; Maher L; Agius P; Stoove M; Ward B; Jenkinson R; Hickman M; Higgs P; Dietze P, 2025, 'Imprisonment Among People who Use Methamphetamine in Victoria, Australia: A Prospective Cohort Study', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 267, pp. 111583 - 111583, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111583

Price O; Lewer D; Peacock A; Maher L; Zolala F; Degenhardt L; Larney S; Agramunt S; Dietze P; Colledge-Frisby S; Scott N; Wilson J; Sutherland R, 2025, 'Population Aging and Apparent Decline in Initiation of Injecting Drug Use in Australia', Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 267, pp. 111591 - 111591, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2024.111591

Monaghan R; Causer L; Ward J; Hengel B; Smith K; Andrewartha K; Fairley C; Maher L; Mak D; White C; Leonard J; Guy R; Lafferty L; Ttango Collaboration OBOT, 2025, 'Understanding the role of patient communication protocols in sexually transmissible infections point-of-care testing among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in remote communities: a qualitative study', Sexual Health, 22, pp. SH24214, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sh24214

Abdelsalam S; Agius PA; Sacks-Davis R; Roxburgh A; Livingston M; Maher L; Hickman M; Dietze P, 2024, 'Characteristics of attrition within the SuperMIX cohort of people who inject drugs: a multiple event discrete-time survival analysis', BMC Medical Research Methodology, 24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12874-024-02377-1

Maher L; Wand H; Heard S; Starr M; Zolala F; Kemp R; Cunningham P; Drummer H; Hellard M; Kaldor J; Dore G, 2024, 'Utilising integrated bio-behavioural surveillance (IBBS) to investigate declining hepatitis C antibody prevalence among people who inject drugs in the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey.', Int J Drug Policy, pp. 104576, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104576

Underwood AP; Gupta M; Wu BR; Eltahla AA; Boo I; Wang JJ; Agapiou D; Abayasingam A; Reynaldi A; Keoshkerian E; Zhao Y; Brasher N; Walker MR; Bukh J; Maher L; Gordon T; Davenport MP; Luciani F; Drummer HE; Lloyd AR; Bull RA, 2024, 'B-cell characteristics define HCV reinfection outcome', Journal of Hepatology, 81, pp. 415 - 428, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2024.04.004

Maher L; Wand H; Heard S; Starr M; Zolala F; Kemp R; Cunningham P; Drummer H; Hellard M; Kaldor J; Dore G, 2024, 'Utilising Integrated Bio-behavioural Surveillance (IBBS) to investigate declining hepatitis C antibody prevalence among people who inject drugs in the Australian Needle and Syringe Program Survey', International Journal of Drug Policy, 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2024.104545

Olsen A; Gough C; Madden A; Maher L; Hudson S; Ward G; Higgs P, 2024, 'Ageing disgracefully with Jude Byrne: A special section recognising her life and work', Drug and Alcohol Review, 43, pp. 1037 - 1039, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13891

Causer LM; Ward J; Smith K; Saha A; Andrewartha K; Wand H; Hengel B; Badman SG; Tangey A; Matthews S; Mak D; Gunathilake M; Moore E; Speers D; Persing D; Anderson D; Whiley D; Maher L; Regan D; Donovan B; Fairley C; Kaldor J; Shephard M; Guy R, 2024, 'Clinical effectiveness and analytical quality of a national point-of-care testing network for sexually transmitted infections integrated into rural and remote primary care clinics in Australia, 2016–2022: an observational program evaluation', Lancet Regional Health Western Pacific, 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lanwpc.2024.101110

Dertadian GC; Caruana T; Maher L, 2024, 'The gendered violence of injecting-related stigma among relatively affluent, suburban women who inject drugs', Drug and Alcohol Review, 43, pp. 1062 - 1070, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13775

Price O; Dietze P; Maher L; Dore GJ; Sutherland R; Salom C; Bruno R; Crawford S; Degenhardt L; Larney S; Peacock A, 2024, 'High COVID-19 vaccine uptake following initial hesitancy among people in Australia who inject drugs', Vaccine, 42, pp. 2877 - 2885, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2024.03.051

Chan J; Ward B; Maher L; Crawford S; Stoové M; Dietze P, 2024, 'Parents who inject drugs: Demographics, care arrangements and correlates for child placement in out-of-home care', Drug and Alcohol Review, 43, pp. 775 - 786, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13798

Adhikari A; Abayasingam A; Brasher NA; Kim HN; Lord M; Agapiou D; Maher L; Rodrigo C; Lloyd AR; Bull RA; Tedla N, 2024, 'Characterization of antibody-dependent cellular phagocytosis in patients infected with hepatitis C virus with different clinical outcomes', Journal of Medical Virology, 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmv.29381

Walker S; Dietze P; Higgs P; Rathnayake K; Kerr T; Ward B; Maher L, 2024, 'Using Ethno-Epidemiology in a Prospective Observational Study to Increase the Rigour of Nested Qualitative Research', International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/16094069231211252

Walker S; Dietze P; Higgs P; Ward B; Treloar C; Stoové M; Rathnayake K; Doyle J; Hellard M; Maher L, 2023, 'Socioeconomic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for people who use drugs', Australian Journal of Social Issues, 58, pp. 907 - 925, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.289

Curtis SJ; Colledge-Frisby S; Stewardson AJ; Doyle JS; Higgs P; Maher L; Hickman M; Stoové MA; Dietze PM, 2023, 'Prevalence and incidence of emergency department presentations and hospital separations with injecting-related infections in a longitudinal cohort of people who inject drugs', Epidemiology and Infection, 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0950268823001784

Dertadian GC; Caruana T; Maher L, 2023, '‘Grew Up with a Silver Spoon in My Mouth, But it Ended Up the Nose’: The Stigma and Labelling of Injection Drug Use in an Affluent Beachside Community', Critical Criminology, 31, pp. 811 - 825, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10612-023-09710-y

Colledge-Frisby S; Rathnayake K; Nielsen S; Stoove M; Maher L; Agius PA; Higgs P; Dietze P, 2023, 'Injection Drug Use Frequency before and after Take-Home Naloxone Training', JAMA Network Open, 6, pp. E2327319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.27319

Rathnayake K; Agius PA; Ward B; Hickman M; Maher L; Stoové M; Doyle JS; Hellard M; Wilkinson A; Quinn B; Crawford S; Sutton K; Dietze P, 2023, 'The impacts of COVID-19 measures on drug markets and drug use among a cohort of people who use methamphetamine in Victoria, Australia', Addiction, 118, pp. 1557 - 1568, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.16189

Price O; Maher L; Dietze PM; Bruno R; Crawford S; Sutherland R; Salom C; Dore GJ; Peacock A, 2023, 'COVID-19 vaccine attitudes and facilitators among people in Australia who inject drugs', Drug and Alcohol Review, 42, pp. 1066 - 1077, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13621

Brookfield S; Selvey L; Fitzgerald L; Maher L, 2023, '“More human”: Using ethnographic insights to develop a posthuman framework of ‘extended recovery’ for harmful drug use', Ssm Qualitative Research in Health, 3, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100245

van Santen DK; Lodi S; Dietze P; van den Boom W; Hayashi K; Dong H; Cui Z; Maher L; Hickman M; Boyd A; Prins M, 2023, 'Comprehensive needle and syringe program and opioid agonist therapy reduce HIV and hepatitis c virus acquisition among people who inject drugs in different settings: A pooled analysis of emulated trials', Addiction, 118, pp. 1116 - 1126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.16147

Artenie A; Stone J; Fraser H; Stewart D; Arum C; Lim AG; McNaughton AL; Trickey A; Ward Z; Abramovitz D; Alary M; Astemborski J; Bruneau J; Clipman SJ; Coffin CS; Croxford S; DeBeck K; Emanuel E; Hayashi K; Hermez JG; Low-Beer D; Luhmann N; Macphail G; Maher L; Palmateer NE; Patel EU; Sacks-Davis R; Van Den Boom W; van Santen DK; Walker JG; Hickman M; Vickerman P; Aladashvili M; Azim T; Dietze P; Dumchev K; Havens JR; Hellard M; Hutchinson S; Iversen J; Judd A; Kåberg M; Kurth AE; Mehta SH; Mravčík V; Prins M; Solomon SS; Strathdee SA; Sypsa V; Todd CS; Valencia J; Wisse E, 2023, 'Incidence of HIV and hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs, and associations with age and sex or gender: a global systematic review and meta-analysis', Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 8, pp. 533 - 552, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S2468-1253(23)00018-3

Storer D; Prestage G; McManus H; Maher L; Bavinton BR; Ellard J; Jin F; Philpot S; Holt M; Saxton P; Haire B; Murphy D; Hammoud MA, 2023, 'Relationship Between Sexual Behaviors with Non-committed Relationship Partners and COVID-19 Restrictions and Notification Rates: Results from a Longitudinal Study of Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia', Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 20, pp. 825 - 836, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13178-022-00733-8

Iversen J; Wand H; McManus H; Dore GJ; Maher L, 2023, 'Incidence of primary hepatitis C virus infection among people who inject drugs in Australia pre- and post-unrestricted availability of direct acting antiviral therapies', Addiction, 118, pp. 901 - 911, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.16113

Dertadian GC; Caruana T; Maher L, 2023, 'Injection drug use in an affluent beachside community in Sydney: An exploratory qualitative study', Drug and Alcohol Review, 42, pp. 544 - 554, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13592

Stone J; Lim AG; Dore GJ; Borquez A; Geddes L; Gray R; Grebely J; Hajarizadeh B; Iversen J; Maher L; Valerio H; Martin NK; Hickman M; Lloyd AR; Vickerman P, 2023, 'Prison-based interventions are key to achieving HCV elimination among people who inject drugs in New South Wales, Australia: A modelling study', Liver International, 43, pp. 569 - 579, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/liv.15469

Madden A; Olsen A; Higgs P; Ward G; Gough C; Hudson S; Maher L, 2023, 'Vale Jude Byrne', Drug and Alcohol Review, 42, pp. 505 - 506, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13631

O'Keefe D; Jacka D; Maher L, 2023, 'Changes in needle and syringe presentations point to the successes of Australian harm reduction policy and practice', Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 47, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anzjph.2022.100016

Murphy D; Ellard J; Maher L; Saxton P; Holt M; Haire B; Grulich A; Bavinton B; Philpot S; Bourne A; Storer D; Jin F; Hammoud M; Prestage G, 2023, 'How to have sex in a pandemic: the development of strategies to prevent COVID-19 transmission in sexual encounters among gay and bisexual men in Australia', Culture Health and Sexuality, 25, pp. 271 - 286, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691058.2022.2037717

Underwood AP; Gupta M; Wu B-R; Eltahla AA; Boo I; Wang JJ; Agapiou D; Abayasingam A; Reynaldi A; Keoshkerian E; Zhao Y; Brasher N; Walker MR; Bukh J; Maher L; Gordon T; Davenport M; Luciani F; Drummer HE; Lloyd AR; Bull RA, 2023, 'B Cell Signatures and Antibody Imprinting Define HCV Reinfection Outcome', , http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4418620

Hill PL; Stoové M; Agius PA; Maher L; Hickman M; Crawford S; Dietze P, 2022, 'Mortality in the SuperMIX cohort of people who inject drugs in Melbourne, Australia: a prospective observational study', Addiction, 117, pp. 3091 - 3098, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/add.15975

Iversen J; Wand H; Kemp R; Bevan J; Briggs M; Patten K; Heard S; Maher L, 2022, 'Uptake of COVID-19 vaccination among people who inject drugs', Harm Reduction Journal, 19, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12954-022-00643-3

OAM KC; Whitelaw J; Maher L; McLean A; Powers K; Caldicott D, 2022, 'Re: Letter to the Editor, Regarding the pre-proof of “Implementation of a successful infection prevention and control governance structure and capacity building strategies during COVID-19 pandemic—A brief report”', American Journal of Infection Control, 50, pp. 1277 - 1278, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.08.009

Brookfield S; Selvey L; Maher L; Fitzgerald L, 2022, '“There’s No Sense to It”: A Posthumanist Ethnography of Agency in Methamphetamine Recovery', Contemporary Drug Problems, 49, pp. 278 - 298, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00914509211031609

Brookfield S; Selvey L; Maher L; Fitzgerald L, 2022, '‘Making Ground’: An Ethnography of ‘Living With’ Harmful Methamphetamine Use and the Plurality of Recovery', Journal of Drug Issues, 52, pp. 366 - 388, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00220426211073911

Price O; Dietze PM; Maher L; Crawford S; Peacock A, 2022, 'COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among people in Australia who inject drugs: Update from the 2021 Illicit Drug Reporting System interviews', Drug and Alcohol Review, 41, pp. 1025 - 1028, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13448

Iversen J; Wand H; Chan PL; Le LV; Maher L, 2022, 'Systematic Review of Hepatitis C Virus Prevalence in the WHO Western Pacific Region', Viruses, 14, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/v14071548

Van Den Boom W; Quiroga MDM; O'keefe D; Kumar D; Hill PL; Scott N; Agius PA; Higgs P; Kerr T; Maher L; Hickman M; Stoové M; Dietze P, 2022, 'Cohort Profile: The Melbourne Injecting Drug User Cohort Study (SuperMIX)', International Journal of Epidemiology, 51, pp. E123 - E130, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyab231

Boyd J; Maher L; Austin T; Lavalley J; Kerr T; McNeil R, 2022, 'Mothers Who Use Drugs: Closing the Gaps in Harm Reduction Response Amidst the Dual Epidemics of Overdose and Violence in a Canadian Urban Setting', American Journal of Public Health, 112, pp. S191 - S198, http://dx.doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2022.306776

Prestage G; Storer D; Jin F; Haire B; Maher L; Philpot S; Bavinton B; Saxton P; Murphy D; Holt M; Bourne A; Hammoud MA, 2022, 'COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake and Its Impacts in a Cohort of Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia', AIDS and Behavior, 26, pp. 2692 - 2702, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03611-x

Dietze PM; Hall C; Price O; Stewart AC; Crawford S; Peacock A; Maher L, 2022, 'COVID-19 vaccine acceptability among people in Australia who inject drugs: Implications for vaccine rollout', Drug and Alcohol Review, 41, pp. 484 - 487, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/dar.13399

Hammoud MA; Wells N; Holt M; Bavinton B; Jin F; Maher L; Philpot S; Haire B; Degenhardt L; Bourne A; Saxton P; Keen P; Storer D; Prestage G, 2022, 'COVID-19 Testing in a Weekly Cohort Study of Gay and Bisexual Men: The Impact of Health-Seeking Behaviors and Social Connection', AIDS and Behavior, 27, pp. 948 - 956, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10461-022-03831-1

Bavinton BR; Chan C; Hammoud MA; Maher L; Haire B; Degenhardt L; Holt M; Lea T; Bath N; Storer D; Jin F; Grulich AE; Bourne A; Saxton P; Prestage GP; Murphy D; Mackie B; Batrouney C; Ellard J; Grierson J; Pastorelli M, 2022, 'Increase in Depression and Anxiety Among Australian Gay and Bisexual Men During COVID-19 Restrictions: Findings from a Prospective Online Cohort Study', Archives of Sexual Behavior, 51, pp. 355 - 364, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10508-021-02276-2

Philpot SP; Prestage G; Holt M; Maher L; Haire B; Bourne A; Hammoud MA, 2022, 'Reasons for not Using HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) among Gay and Bisexual Men in Australia: Mixed-Methods Analyses from a National, Online, Observational Study', Behavioral Medicine, 49, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2022.2033159

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