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Wed

29

Mar

The Kirby Institute's presence at CROI: Recap of Kirby’s important contributions

1:00pm – 2:00pm

The 2023 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) was held in Seattle from 19 - 22 February. Several of our colleagues attended this important international conference and four will be presenting their ...
Wed

8

Mar

International Women's Day – Dismantling barriers for a gender equal future

1:00pm – 2:30pm

Good health and education are crucial to combat inequity. But women continue to face barriers in accessing these rights due to systemic inequity and a range of social determinants. This International Women’s Day, the Kirby ...
Wed

15

Feb

Heather McCormack - Laugh the shame away: Take Blaktion and strengths-based approaches to Aboriginal sexual health

1:00pm – 2:00pm

The Take Blaktion program uses comedy sketch videos featuring high-profile Aboriginal ambassadors to engage Aboriginal young people with culturally appropriate sexual health messaging. Comedy has a long history within Aboriginal ...
Wed

1

Feb

Professor Jake Baum – Paratechnology: New tools for malaria control and eradication

1:00pm – 2:00pm

A spotlight on Global Health: Learn about research and programs aimed at improving health outcomes in areas of need through collaborations in low- and middle-income countries. Malaria was estimated to cause more than 240
Mon

12

Dec

Professor Mark Jit – Assessing the value of COVID-19 vaccines - a health economics perspective

9:00am – 10:00am

Vaccines against COVID-19 are probably one of the most valuable categories of vaccines ever developed. However, vaccine supply and financial constraints have forced national, regional and global decision makers into hard decisions ...
Wed

7

Dec

H2Seq: Viral genomics for public health interventions in HIV and HCV

1:00pm – 2:00pm

This presentation will discuss the current outcomes and future challenges of the H2Seq Initiative, an Australian government-funded initiative led by the Kirby Institute. H2Seq has a national collaborative network that aims to ...
Thu

1

Dec

HIV seroconversion over time: 30 years exploring accounts of HIV infection and diagnosis

2:00pm – 4:00pm

In 1992, the first in-depth study was set up to explore the ‘event’ that people attributed to their HIV seroconversion. Unique in the world, this study investigated the ways in which people understand and negotiate HIV risk. Over ...
Wed

30

Nov

Dr Luc Coffeng – Neglected tropical diseases: modelling and simulation for public health policy

1:00pm – 2:00pm

During this seminar, Dr Luc Coffeng will give an overview of his work on optimising public health policy against neglected tropical diseases, using mathematical modelling and other quantitative techniques. His presentation will
Wed

23

Nov

Drs Stephane Wen-Wei Ku, Carol Strong & Isaac Yen-Hao Chu – Reflection on PrEP implementation in Taiwan

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Since 2016, Taiwan has implemented the first government-funded pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) program in Asia-Pacific and adopted event-driven PrEP in the national guidelines in 2019. Such a setting provides a unique chance for
Wed

16

Nov

Brett Tindall Memorial Lecture 2022: Associate Professor Behzad Hajarizadeh

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Join us for our special event the 11th Annual Brett Tindall Memorial Lecture. Associate Professor Behzad Hajarizadeh is the recipient of the 2022 Brett Tindall Memorial Lecture. His lecture will focus on his extensive and ...
Wed

9

Nov

Dr Jack Stone & Dr Richard Gray – Modelling the impact of public health interventions in the prison setting

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Prisons are complex systems characterised by high burden of public health need, patient access constraints, and transient flow of prisoners between prisons, and prison and the community. Modelling can inform the public health
Sat

5

Nov

Professor Mark Jit – Assessing the value of COVID-19 vaccines: why it matters and what we've learnt

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Vaccines against COVID-19 are probably one of the most valuable categories of vaccines ever developed. However, vaccine supply and financial constraints have forced national, regional and global decision makers into hard decisions ...
Wed

12

Oct

Dr Samuel Brookfield – Developing a posthumanist model of 'Extended Recovery' for harmful drug use

1:00pm – 2:00pm

This seminar presents analysis from an ethnographic study with people engaging in recovery from harmful methamphetamine use. Their experiences are used to interrogate the ideas underpinning contemporary neoliberal understandings
Wed

5

Oct

Kirby Institute Postgraduate Student Prize 2022: Dr Nila Dharan

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Join us for a special seminar from the recipient of the Kirby Institute Postgraduate Student Prize 2022. The Kirby Institute Postgraduate Student Prize is an annual award given to the most significant first author paper by a Kirby
Mon

19

Sep

2022 Annual Symposium for the ASCEND NHMRC Program Grant

9:00am – 5:00pm

The Chief Investigators of the ASCEND (Advancing the health of people who use drugs: hepatitis C and drug dependence) NHMRC Program Grant extend a warm invitation to the 2022 ASCEND Symposium. The ASCEND Symposium will feature ...
Tue

6

Sep

Dr Shelley Walker – The lived experiences of people who use drugs during the COVID pandemic

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Dr Walker will present qualitative research findings of the COVID-19 and Drug Use Experiences (CoDE) study. The study involved in-depth interviews with 76 people who use and inject drugs, with the aim of understanding the impact of ...
Tue

6

Sep

Dr Eduardo P. Banzon – Health economics and supporting universal health coverage reforms in Southeast Asia

3:00pm – 4:00pm

The use of health economics analysis and tools has informed decisions of developing countries in Southeast Asia design and develop, implement, and evaluate and improve health system reforms for pursuing and achieving Universal ...
Fri

2

Sep

Professor Joel Palefsky & Dr Mary Poynten: Anal cancer prevention in people living with HIV

1:00pm – 2:00pm

*Please note this is a hybrid seminar with registration options for in-house attendance and livestream. This seminar will include presentations from two research studies focussing on anal cancer. Professor Joel Palefsky will