DEWI ISMAJANI PURADIREDJA BA, MSc, PhD
 LSE Teaching Fellow and ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow

London School of Economics (LSE)
 Department of Social Policy and Department of International Development
Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE

Email: d.i.puradiredja@lse.ac.uk

Affiliation: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)

BACKGROUND

 

Dewi Ismajani - also known as Jani - is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Social Policy and the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is also an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health in the Department of Population Studies at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

Jani has a PhD in Demography/Population Studies (2011) and an MSc in Health, Population and Society (2003), both from the LSE. Her BA in Development and Indonesian Studies (2002) is from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). From 2004 to 2011 she worked with the HIV Epidemiology and Biostatistics Group in the Research Department of Infection and Population Health at the University College London (UCL) Medical School. She has also contributed to research projects conducted at LSE Health, and has worked together and volunteered for a number of international NGOs and local charities both in the UK and Indonesia.

 

ACADEMIC INTERESTS

Within the fields of Population Studies, social epidemiology and development, Jani's interdisciplinary academic interests focus on HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases, sexual and reproductive health, research methodologies,  and demography in the developing world.

Jani's doctoral study used a comparative rural-urban research design and a mixed methods approach to collect and analyse both qualitative and quantitative data related to condom use in the context of transactional sex by female sex workers in the West of Java, Indonesia. 

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

 

  • SA103 Population, Economy and Society

  • SA493 Demography in the Developing World

  • DV421 HIV/AIDS and Other Emerging Health Threats

  • SA4F1 Migration: Population Trends and Policies

  • SA4D1 Health and Population in Contemporary Developed Societies

  • SA492 Reproductive Health Programmes

  • DV411 Masters dissertation supervision

  • SA499 Masters dissertation supervision

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Unprotected transactional sex and socio-demographic characteristics of female sex workers in rural and urban Indonesia.
  • Asian Population Association Conference. 26-29 August 2012. Bangkok, Thailand.
     

Female sex work in Indonesia: Implications for HIV prevention efforts
  • Invited presentation for LSE workshop on HIV/AIDS in Indonesia: Pathologies of Power, Profit, and Policy Speakers: Elisabeth Pisani, Michael Buehler, Dede Otomo, Dewi Ismajani Puradiredja, Claire Q. Smith
    12 November 2009, London School of Economics (LSE)
     

Contextualising condom (non-)use by Indonesian female sex workers: A mixed methods approach
  • International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific (ICAAP) 2009, Bali, Indonesia
  • Post-graduate demography conference POPFEST 2009, LSE
     

Contextualising condom (non-)use by Indonesian female sex workers:
Innovative sampling and research methodologies for a hard-to-reach population
  • XVII International AIDS Conference 2008, Mexico City, Mexico
  • British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) Conference 2008, University of Manchester
     

Why do female sex workers in Indonesia not use condoms:
A mixed methods study of the heterogeneous contexts of condom use
  • European Population Conference 2008, Barcelona, Spain
     

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

  • Transactional sex risk across a typology of rural and urban female sex workers in Indonesia: A mixed methods study. Puradiredja DI and E Coast. Accepted with revisions for publication in: PLoS One. 2012.

  • Long term trends in adherence to antiretroviral therapy from start of HAART. 2010. Cambiano V, Lampe FC, Rodger AJ, Smith CJ, Geretti AM, Lodwick RK, Puradiredja DI, Johnson M, Leonie Swaden, Phillips AN.

  • Response to efavirenz-containing regimens in previously antiretroviral-naive HIV positive patients: the role of gender. 2007. Smith CJ, Sabin CA, Youle MS, Lampe FC, Bhagani S, Madge S, Puradiredja DI, Johnson MA, Phillips AN. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 46(1):62-7.

  • Death in the era of HAART: contribution of late presentation, treatment exposure, resistance and abnormal laboratory markers. 2006. Sabin CA, Smith CJ, Youle M, Lampe FC, Bell DR, Puradiredja DI, Lipman MC, Bhagani S, Phillips AN, Johnson MA. AIDS. 2006. 20 (1): 67-71.

 

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
  • Co-organiser of the 17th annual post-graduate demography conference POPFEST 2009 held at the London School of Economics (LSE)
  • Panel organiser for the 2nd Annual Southeast Asian Studies Symposium March 2013 at University of Oxford

Other activities