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 the ...

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 weeks ...

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 of ...

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 ...