Location:
Level 6, Seminar Room Wallace Wurth Building UNSW Australia Sydney NSW 2052
Open to
All
Contact for enquiries
Reception +61 (0)2 9385 0900 recpt@kirby.unsw.edu.au
The Kirby Institute is pleased to present:
Associate Professor Stanley Luchters
Principal of Sexual and Reproductive Health; Team Leader, Women's and Children's Health, The Burnet Institute
Prevention of unintended pregnancies among female sex workers
Bio:
A/Prof Stanley Luchters is a medical epidemiologist and sexual and reproductive health researcher, recruited to Australia in 2012.
He leads a research agenda on prevention of sexual and reproductive health morbidities. His main expertise is in design, conduct and evaluation of health interventions that have a public health impact, particularly among vulnerable populations such as female and male sex workers in resource-constrained settings.
He is now Head of Women’s and Children’s Health at the Centre for International Health, Burnet Institute, and the institute’s Principal for Sexual and Reproductive Health. He holds honorary academic appointments as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University (Australia), and as a Visiting Professor at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Ghent University (Belgium).
A/Prof Luchters is a trained medical doctor (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) with a Masters in Public Health for Developing Countries (LSHTM, UK) and a PhD from Ghent University (Belgium).
For over 10 years he worked in varying low-income countries particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, including in Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, and Malawi. A/Prof Luchters has been Chief Investigator on 26 studies of varying designs including prospective cohorts and 5 international multi-centre clinical trials. He led nine studies among sex workers including intervention trials assessing the effectiveness of the female condom, diaphragm and microbicides for HIV prevention and reducing unmet need for contraception in Kenya.