Infectious disease experts have said that control of current monkeypox outbreaks is needed, that people should be vigilant of monkeypox symptoms, and take heed of lessons learnt from past epidemics, in an online webinar hosted by the ...

Professor Raina MacIntyre has been awarded the prestigious Department of Defence Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science and Innovation at the Eureka Prizes award ceremony last night. It is one of 14 Eureka Prizes across four categories ...

The Kirby Institute’s Dr Skye McGregor has been awarded the Levinia Crooks Emerging Leader in BBV/STI Award at the 2022 ASHM Joint Australasian HIV&AIDS + Sexual Health Conferences in the Sunshine Coast. The award was established ...

The Australian Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF) has awarded a combined almost $2 million to two Kirby Institute projects; one into the transmission of COVID-19, and another into an innovative antiviral treatment.  Pr

The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney and the Australian Research Council launched a new national research hub working to combat antimicrobial resistance. The virtual launch event was chaired by Chief Investigator and Hub Director, ...

Two of Australia’s leading health advocates received the HIV Hero Award at the ACON Honour Awards this week. The Kirby Institute’s Professor Basil Donovan AO, and his longtime collaborator and friend, Julie Bates AO, received the award ...

Professor Raina MacIntyre has been named a 2022 finalist for the Department of Defence Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science and Innovation. It is one of 14 Eureka Prizes across four categories awarded annually by the Australian ...

Almost half (46.2%) of adults in Australia are estimated to have had SARS-CoV-2 by early June 2022.  Based on comparison with the previous survey, more than a quarter of the population was infected in the previous three-month ...

Kirby Institute Professor Basil Donovan has been made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the Queen’s Birthday honours.  Professor Donovan, who is a sexual health physician and Head of the Kirby Institute’s Sexual Health ...

Former NSW Minister for Health, The Honourable Jillian Skinner, was awarded a Doctor of Medical Science, honoris causa, for her leadership and service to elimination of HIV transmission in NSW, and Australia more broadly. At the UNSW ...

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard speaks of how addressing inequitable access to advances in healthcare can help prevent the cracks of inequality in society. In her address at the 2022 David Cooper Lecture, former Prime Minister ...

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has awarded $2.15 million in funding to a Kirby Institute project to decrease adverse perinatal outcomes and sexually transmissible infections (STIs) in the Pacific region as ...

A team of researchers at the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney have been awarded $1.8M from the NSW Government to undertake research aimed at preventing people acquiring a range of infectious diseases. The funding announced today is ...

The Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has received the largest known cryptocurrency donation to an Australian higher education institution, which will support an open-source tool providing pandemic early warning signals. Ethereum

Researchers at the Doherty Institute and Kirby Institute have gathered evidence to clarify the role vaccine-induced T cells play in the fight against COVID-19. While there is compelling evidence neutralising antibodies are important ...

Infectious disease physician Dr Gail Cross has been awarded the inaugural David Cooper Scholarship. Thanks to generous donations made in memory of the Kirby Institute’s inaugural director, the late Professor David Cooper AC, the ...

The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has established the NHMRC David Cooper Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies Award.  Announced at the annual Research Excellence Awards, the award recognises the highest ranked ...

The World Health Organization has set an ambitious target to eliminate hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030. Some countries, including Australia, have made good progress, but if elimination is to be achieved, existing health ...