Corie Gray

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About Corie Gray

Corie works on the WA Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Applied Research and Evaluation Network (SiREN) as the Coordinator for a national Community of Practice for Action on HIV and Mobility (CoPAHM). She has worked across numerous projects, particularly in the areas of HIV, sexual health and working with culturally and linguistically diverse populations. Corie has a Bachelor’s degree of Science (Health Promotion) and was awarded the 2015 Australian Health Promotion Association Peter Howat Award for Academic Excellence in Health Promotion. She completed her Honours exploring HIV knowledge and use of health services among priority migrant communities, receiving a Postgraduate Scholarship from the Sexual Health and Blood-borne Virus Program. In 2017 she was awarded an Australian Health Promotion Association WA Healthway Graduate Scholarship and a Research Fellowship from Gilead Sciences to explore barriers to HIV testing among priority migrant communities. Corie has recently received a 2018 Research Training Program Stipend Scholarship from Curtin University to complete a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health. Her PhD project is working with priority migrant communities to co-design an intervention to increase HIV testing using participatory action research methodology