Research from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has been featured in a report from Unitaid that highlights the need for innovation to achieve universal health coverage. The report has been released alongside a Financial Times special ...

Across two weeks in August, the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney was delighted to host the first nine participants of the inaugural Cooper HIV/AIDS Research Training (CHART) Program. The CHART Program is a hands-on education and training ...

(PERTH, Tuesday 17 September 2019) There is an urgent need to prioritise health resources and services to support the sexual health and wellbeing of transgender (‘trans’) and gender diverse people, according to a new report from the ...

The Kirby Institute would like to congratulate our PhD graduates, Dr Steve Badman and Dr Sasiwimol Ubolyam. The two Kirby Institute alumnus were awarded their PhDs at the UNSW Medicine graduation ceremony on Wednesday 28 August 2019. Ste

The Kirby Institute’s high impact research will receive a $10 million boost, with six successful researchers receiving funds through the NHMRC’s new and highly competitive Investigator Grants scheme. The scheme, announced yesterday by ...

The Kirby Institute’s Dr Lucia Romani and Professor John Kaldor are part of a highly collaborative team of researchers who have been working in Fiji and the Solomon Islands on projects to eliminate scabies. The projects adopt the ...

The Kirby Institute's Professor Rebecca Guy will lead one of four Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Hubs announced today by the Minister for Education Dan Tehan.  As part of its Industrial Transformation Research Hubs ...

Professor Rebecca Guy, Head of our Surveillance, Evaluation and Research Program, has been named as one of NSW’s Tall Poppy Science Award recipients for 2019. Professor Guy has been recognised for her internationally renowned work in ...

(SYDNEY, Monday 5 August 2019) The first national report on progress towards the elimination of hepatitis C virus in Australia highlights the great strides Australia has made towards hepatitis C elimination over the past two to three ...

(Sydney, Wednesday 31 July, 2019) Four in five parents support the Australian Government’s controversial ‘No Jab, No Pay’ vaccination policy, but the policy may be disproportionately impacting low-income families, new research from the ...

(SYDNEY, Thursday 25 July 2019) Hepatitis C has declined by a staggering 60% among people who inject drugs since new hepatitis C cures were made available through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) in 2016, according to a new ...

Congratulations to Dr Alison Marshall, who was awarded the Kirby Institute’s Postgraduate Student Prize for 2019. Dr Marshall is an Associate Lecturer at the Kirby Institute and the Centre for Social Research in Health, both at UNSW ...

(SYDNEY, Wednesday 3 July 2019) Australia continues to lead the world in HIV prevention and in 2018 recorded the lowest number of HIV diagnoses since 2001. According to a report released today by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney, ...

The Kirby Institute, in collaboration with the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC), have hosted the first meeting of the new ASCEND Program Grant, an innovative new partnership designed to address issues of drug ...

Results of a two-year update of the world's first comparative trial of mass drug administration against scabies, show that the infection rate is still significantly down. The latest findings are published today in The New England ...

New Kirby Institute research, published in the Journal of AIDS, has investigated the factors that influence gay and bisexual men’s use of PrEP in Australia, and found that many are not using PrEP, despite being at risk of HIV. To

(SYDNEY, Saturday 15 June 2019) A deliberate release of smallpox in a big city is a nightmare public health scenario, but new research by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney published today in PLOS One suggests that the worst can be ...

The UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarship Scheme offers scholars of exceptional quality the opportunity to work on research projects aligned with the UNSW 2025 strategy. These prestigious scholarships offer unique benefits, individualised ...