Congratulations to Rosie Latimer & Wendy Wang on their graduate research completion!

Wendy Wang

Rosie Latimer

Congratulations to Rosie Latimer & Wendy Wang on completing respectively their PhD and Master's degrees! The awards were conferred on 17 June 2021.

Rosie Latimer's thesis is titled, "Emerging Issues In Sexual Health: Mycoplasma Genitalium And 'Stealthing'. She was supervised by Prof Catriona Bradshaw, Dr Lenka Vodstrcil and Prof Kit Fairley, all in the Melbourne Sexual Health Centre.

Wendy Wang's thesis is titled, "Detecting Cognitive Impairments in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension using Neuropsychological and Ocular Motor Testing". She was supervised by Prof Joanne Fielding, Prof Anneke van der Walt and Dr Meaghan Clough in the Department of Neuroscience. 

Study suggests ‘stealthing’ – non-consensual condom removal – a common practice

by Anne Crawford

A Monash University researcher has conducted the first study globally into the prevalence of ‘stealthing’ or non-consensual condom removal, finding that one in three women, and one in five men who have sex with men (MSM) have been subjected to it.

Stealthing can lead to unwanted pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections (STI) including HIV, and to emotional distress.

The Melbourne Sexual Health Centre’s Rosie Latimer became interested in the phenomenon after an article about it appeared in the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law in April 2017. The article, by Yale Law School graduate Alexandra Brodsky and based on anecdotal evidence, attracted international attention. It raised the question of whether stealthing should be considered sexual assault.

Photo of the week: CCS 3MT heat winners!

Central Clinical School held its heat for the Three Minute Thesis competition on Thursday 21 June 2018. The finalists were, L-R above, Ms Amy Wilson (winner), Ms Rosie Latimer (runner up) and Mr Jasper Cornish (People's Choice). Prof Rob Medcalf, CCS's postgraduate coordinator (far right), presented the awards.  Many thanks to the judging panel Prof Rob Medcalf, Prof Jennifer Hoy, Prof Jennifer Wilkinson-Berka and Prof Ben Marsland and all others who came to support their peers. See more about the participants, their topics and their supervisors at:  https://www.monash.edu/medicine/ccs/education/current-students/hdr-3mt/2018-ccs-3mt