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Marianne Jauncey

Conjoint Senior Lecturer, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, UNSW Sydney

Dr Marianne Jauncey was appointed to the position of Medical Director at the Sydney Medically Supervised Injecting Centre in August 2008. This followed on from the original Medical Director, Dr Ingrid van Beek, who founded the service. Dr Jauncey is a Public Health Physician and has worked in the drug and alcohol field for over a decade.
Dr Jauncey has previously worked as a drug and alcohol doctor in Kings Cross, having spent four years at the Kirketon Road Centre where the primary focus is injecting drug users, sex workers and youth at risk. She has also worked at a number of Area Health Services around NSW, at the NSW Dept of Health, and at the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research. Her particular research interests include increasing access to hepatitis C treatment for injecting drug users, drug overdose, and the physiological changes that occur after drug injection.

Experience

  • –present
    Academic title?, UNSW