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Consortia

NCHSR is involved in the three consortia described below:

 

The Consortium for Social and Policy Research on HIV, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases

The Consortium for Social and Policy Research on HIV, Hepatitis C and Related DiseasesThe Consortium is an innovative research and community health services collaboration funded by NSW Health. It aims to build the research capacities across the HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C and illicit drug use sectors in NSW to foster further social and policy research.
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HIV Capacity-Building Consortium

NCHSR and eight other Australian HIV organisations have formed an HIV Capacity-Building Consortium to work jointly in the Asia-Pacific region.  This consortium, funded by AusAID, has been set up to strengthen the capacity of organisations and individuals in Asia and the Pacific to respond effectively to HIV and AIDS. It will foster strategic partnerships and linkages between Australia and organisations in the region to enable sustained performance improvement for those working in the HIV/AIDS health care, research and community responses.  The consortium also aims to support engagement in national and regional policy development and policy processes to facilitate in-country cross-sectoral collaboration and productive partnerships with government. The program may also include assisting regional networks to form within and across sectors to support the response.

NCHSR and the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) have agreed to collaborate closely on HIV social research capacity building.  The other organisations involved are:


5-Centre HIV and AIDS research initiative (5-CHARI)

In the early 2000s, five leading international universities have joined forces to create 5-CHARI – the Five Centre HIV/AIDS Research Initiative. This major international collaboration brings together the combined resources of the National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, Australia; the HIV Social, Behavioural and Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Toronto, Canada; the Centre for the Study of AIDS, University of Pretoria, South Africa; the Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London, United Kingdom; and the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Drawing upon a common set of understandings, work within the five centres is generating a better understanding of the HIV epidemic, and contributing to improvements in HIV/AIDS prevention, impact mitigation and care. Consultatively and collaboratively, 5-CHARI is promoting innovative thinking about the epidemic, its course and development; development of new research paradigms and perspectives; greater recognition of culture, the social structure and human relationships in the context of the epidemic; new thinking about gender and sexuality as they relate to HIV/AIDS; the development of new explanations of relevance to HIV/AIDS prevention and care; and innovation and integration within the fields of sexual and reproductive health.

Consortium workshop 27

The Consortium for Social and Policy ResearchSex @ work: the ordinary, extraordinary lives of sex workers
Thursday 16 October 10 am – 4 pm. Dockside @ Cockle Bay. Special guest speakers. To register, please email Ann Whitelaw.

NCHSR has a new Director

NCHSR Director Professor John de WitProfessor John de Wit

Check out a recent article in the Sydney Star Observer profiling the new NCHSR Director, Professor John de Wit.