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In reflection and celebration of his 32-year research career, and over 40 years working in health and activism, Associate Professor Garrett Prestage was awarded the 2023 Brett Tindall Memorial Lecture, an annual lecture held by the ...

The Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has been awarded an almost $1.5 million Partnership Grant by the National Health and Medical Research Council to continue and enhance its long-term collaboration with Australian Red Cross Lifeblood on ...

The Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has awarded the second David Cooper Scholarship to Damian Honeyman, an ICU nurse at NSW Health and PhD candidate within the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute. Thanks to generous donations ...

The Kirby Institute joins our colleagues in the Faculty of Medicine & Health and the broader UNSW community in mourning the loss of our colleague, esteemed epidemiologist Professor Mary-Louise McLaws AO.   Professor

Lab data in cells has shown that siRNA has the potential to treat COVID-19 infection better than existing antivirals, according to new research from UNSW’s Kirby and RNA Institutes, published today in Antiviral Research. siRNA – which ...

Three Kirby Institute initiatives have secured a total of $5.5 million in funding through the highly competitive National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Trials and Cohort Studies grants scheme. Projects aiming ...

Kirby Institute Patron, The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG delivered the 2023 David Cooper Lecture, sharing his insights into life during the AIDS epidemic, highlights of his career and the role of human rights in responding to infectious ...

When Geoff* left prison after his sentence ended, he was told he would be provided with help to return to the community and get on with this new chapter in life. They promised a lot. Like you know transitioning to housing, even help ...

Despite disruptions to testing and risk behaviour during COVID-19, the latest data release from UNSW Sydney’s Kirby Institute shows Australia is tracking well towards the elimination of HIV transmission. HIV diagnoses in Australia ...

A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney and the Doherty Institute have been announced as finalists in the prestigious 2023 Eureka Prize Awards Kirby Institute researchers Professor Miles ...

Our new and updated design and layout will make it easier to find what you’re looking for, and aligns with UNSW’s refreshed creative approach. This new re-design is cleaner and fully optimised for mobile, compliant for accessibility ...

This year, by referendum, we all have an opportunity to make a difference to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and to the process surrounding how decisions affecting their lives are made.  The Kirby Institute at UNSW ...

A collaborative and rapidly rolled out point-of-care testing program helped avert a major COVID-19 outbreak in remote Aboriginal communities during the pandemic. A new evaluation commissioned by the Australian Government has ...

A new study from the Kirby Institute published today in Lancet Global Health has found that administering drugs for intestinal worm infections, scabies and impetigo to an entire population is an effective way to control these neglected ...

Increasing treatment access and reducing undiagnosed infections is vital for combatting HIV, a world first study co-led by the Kirby and Burnet Institutes finds. A ten-year study into the impact of HIV ‘treatment as prevention’ has ...

A major laboratory study led by the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney has found that despite Australia being exposed to many diverse Omicron sub-variants, widespread vaccination and previous exposure within the population has meant that ...

A landmark initiative to eliminate cervical cancer in the Western Pacific officially launched in Papua New Guinea. Thousands of women in Papua New Guinea’s Western Highlands Province are the first to benefit from an initiative to ...

There aren’t enough interventions for people who use drugs, new research shows. Written by NDARC MEDIA / UNSW MEDIA for the UNSW Newsroom Evidence of an increase in injecting drug use at a global level highlights the need for ...