Peter Higgs Peter Higgs graduated from the School of Social Work UNSW in 1988 then worked for a number of years as a community development worker on an inner-city public housing estate in Melbourne. Between 1993-95 he lived and studied in Hanoi, Vietnam where he completed research for a Master of Arts at the Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne on footpath trading in Hanoi. Since 1996 he has worked with the Centre for Harm Reduction at the Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health on action research and community deployment projects with ethnic Vietnamese injecting drug users in Melbourne, Sydney and Vietnam.