Associate Professor Benjamin Bavinton

Associate Professor Benjamin Bavinton has worked at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney since 2010 and is Group Leader of the Biobehavioural Prevention Research Group within the HIV Epidemiology and Prevention Program. His research focuses on the behavioural and epidemiological aspects of HIV and STI prevention among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender people, along with broader LGBTQ+ health issues, in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Both in Australia and internationally, he has worked in HIV prevention for 20 years in the areas of community education, policy, capacity development, and research. He was Project Leader of the Opposites Attract Study, an international cohort study of HIV treatment-as-prevention in male serodiscordant couples. He currently conducts projects on monitoring, implementing and scaling up oral and injectable forms of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in Australia and Asia, identifying and addressing gaps in HIV prevention in Australia, and understanding sexual behaviour of among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men and transgender women in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. He is the Kirby Institute's senior investigator on Australia's national HIV behavioural surveillance system, The GBQ+ Community Periodic Surveys.