Elena Jaclyn Cama

Dr Elena Cama is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Research in Health at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. Her work bridges criminology, social science, and public health, focusing on marginalisation, discrimination, and violence, particularly sexual harms across diverse contexts.

• Education
  • PhD, UNSW Sydney
  • Master of Public Health, University of Sydney
  • Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice (First Class Honors), UNSW Sydney

Her research includes studies on sexual harms via dating apps, in rideshare services, the night-time economy, and higher education. She also specialises in stigma and discrimination against people affected by blood-borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections (BBVs/STIs), including developing a novel stigma reduction intervention for healthcare workers.

Grants (selected):

• $5,000 Early Career Researcher Development Fund (2025)
• $30,155 BBV engagement and stigma study among Chinese/Vietnamese communities (2025)
• $4,750 sex worker stigma study (2023)
• $75,055 institutional stigma in healthcare (2023)