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The Director’s Unit

The Director of the Kirby Institute, Professor David A. Cooper AO FAA, was the inaugural director of the Institute’s previous entity, the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research, established in 1986. Professor Cooper’s long associat...

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Program

Program head: James Ward

ATSIHP was established in 2007. The program works collaboratively across sectors to close the gap in health disparity between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous people, with a key focus upon sexual health and blood borne viruses...

Biostatistics and Databases Program

Program head: Prof Matthew Law

The Biostatistics and Databases Program has a collaborative biostatistical research role across many of the Centre’s programs and activities. This includes ensuring the statistical design and analysis of clinical trials and epidemiological studies ar...

HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program

Program head: Prof Andrew Grulich

The HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program (HEPP) conducts research into the transmission and prevention of HIV and sexually transmissible infections (STIs), and work on the cancers that occur in people with HIV. The extraordinary productivity aris...

Immunovirology and Pathogenesis Program

Program head: Prof Tony Kelleher

IVPP was formed in 2005, resulting from the amalgamation of the Laboratory Support and Primary HIV Infection Research Programs. The group works very closely with the Immunovirology group at the St Vincent’s Centre for Applied Medical Research. The ac...

Justice Health Program

Program head: Prof Tony Butler

Projects in the justice health area involving adult and juvenile prisoners, those serving community-based sentences, and ex-offenders. These groups endure some of the worst health in society and this has implications for the health of the wider comm...

Public Health Interventions Research Group

Program head: Prof John Kaldor

The Public Health Interventions Research Group undertakes a diverse range of projects that focus on the evaluation of strategies to prevent infectious disease. We collaborative extensively within NCHECR and externally, and emphasise research that ben...

Sexual Health Program

Program head: Prof Basil Donovan

The Sexual Health Program undertakes research and surveillance designed to inform strategies to reduce the impact of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and HIV, and to conduct trials to directly reduce the impact of STIs. The program had leadin...

Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health

Program head: A/Prof David Wilson

SEPPH monitors the pattern of transmission of HIV, viral hepatitis, and specific sexually transmissible infections in Australia, assesses past and expected epidemic trends, and evaluates the epidemiological impact and cost-effectiveness of public hea...

Therapeutic and Vaccine Research Program

Program head: Sean Emery

TVRP conducts a range of clinical trials designed to assess the effectiveness of new HIV therapies or candidate vaccines. These studies often provide not just biomedical data, but also evidence of the impact of policy practice and therapeutic guideli...

Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program

Program head: Prof Gregory Dore

The Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program was formed 2003 and is a rapidly expanding area of clinical research and development within the NCHECR. The program focuses on therapeutic research in viral hepatitis and the activities of the program can...

Viral Hepatitis Epidemiology and Prevention Program

Program head: Prof Lisa Maher

The Viral Hepatitis Epidemiology and Prevention Program strives to conduct multidisciplinary public health research that is ethical, innovative and makes a difference. We are proud of, and committed to, working in partnership with affected communitie...

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