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Data just published online shows a worrying increase in infectious syphilis cases in women living in Australia aged 15–44 (referred to as “reproductive age”) and a subsequent rise in transmission from pregnant parent to child. This is ...

World Hepatitis Day (28 July) is an annual global public health day that aims to raise awareness of viral hepatitis. This year, the theme is “It’s Time for Action”, highlighting the need to encourage individuals, partners and the ...

In celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culture and health research, the Kirby Institute hosted a special NAIDOC Week event on the traditional lands of the Bidjigal peoples at the Kirby Institute on Thursday 4 ...

The 2023 Kirby Institute annual report, which outlines the year’s key successes at the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney, is now available. The publication highlights the key stats from 2023, as well as updates and success from across ...

The Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney welcomes the Federal Budget announcement of ongoing funding to support a Medicare rebate for molecular point-of-care testing for sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in remote communities across ...

Last month, Emily Phillips, Project Manager at the Kirby Institute, was invited as a panellist representing Indigenous people at the Multi-stakeholder Hearing on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), held at the United Nations (UN) ...

A research team led by the Kirby Institute’s Dr Chansavath Phetsouphanh has been awarded almost $1m by the Australian Government Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) to further investigate the immune profile and impacts of long COVID to ...

Australia appears to be experiencing a re-emergence of the infectious disease mpox, formerly called monkeypox. Some 40 cases have been recorded so far in 2024, already surpassing the total number recorded for 2023 (26). Victoria has ...

A new research program dedicated to improving sexual reproductive and maternal health in low- and middle-income Asia-Pacific countries has been created at the Kirby Institute. Led by Professor Andrew Vallely, who joined the Kirby ...

Seven Kirby Institute researchers from UNSW Sydney have been awarded a total of $13,141,802 in funding through the NHMRC Investigator Grants Scheme. Announced today by the Minister for Health, The Honorable Mark Butler, the funds will ...

Biomarkers for long COVID that were present in patients at eight months have largely resolved by 24 months among a cohort of people who contracted COVID-19 during Australia’s first wave. Jointly led by the Kirby Institute at UNSW ...

Professor Kathy Petoumenos, a longtime Kirby Institute leader and biostatistician, has been appointed Program Head of the Kirby Institute’s Biostatistics and Databases Program.  Prof Petoumenos has been a crucial member of both ...

A new cervical cancer elimination program supported by the Kirby Institute and partners in Papua New Guinea (PNG) and Australia has been launched in New Ireland Province, PNG.  A team from the Kirby Institute were in PNG for two ...

The Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has been awarded $5 million from the Australian Government for point-of-care testing and drug resistance surveillance for HIV in Papua New Guinea (PNG).  The funding will support the next phase ...

Wiradjuri woman Heather McCormack from the Kirby Institute is one of three First Nations women recently appointed to UNSW’s Scientia Program.  The Scientia Program supports UNSW's culture of research excellence by attracting and ...

Almost 90 per cent of the 57 million people living with hepatitis C live in low- and middle-income countries, but only half of these countries currently provide curative treatments at an accessible cost, says a study by UNSW Sydney’s ...

The grant from the Medical Research Future Fund will enable the national scale up of game-changing point-of-care testing for hepatitis C in community and prisons in Australia.  The Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has been awarded ...

The International Health Economics Association (IHEA), the peak global health economics body, has named the Kirby Institute’s Professor Virginia Wiseman President-Elect. The organisation has over 1,500 members from more than 100 ...