Centre for Social Research in Health

ASHA, the Australasian Sexual Health Alliance, is a multi-disciplinary alliance of sexual health organisations, working together to improve national and local responses to sexual health issues.

World AIDS Day, dedicated to raising awareness of HIV, is an opportunity unlike any other to take stock of what’s been achieved in the HIV response and what challenges lie ahead.

Professor John de Wit launched the CSRH 2013 Annual Report of Trends in Behaviour (PDF) [2 Mb] at ASHM today.

Since its establishment in 1990, the National Centre in HIV Social Research has always been about more than ‘just’ HIV. As the suite of national strategies has expanded over time, so has the research program of CSRH.

Dr Martin Holt, Senior Research Fellow at CSRH, has been invited to become an Associate Editor of the well regarded Journal of the International AIDS Society and has also been appointed to the editorial board of AIDS and Behavior

CSRH, in conjunction with the Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC), has been awarded a competitive UNSW 2013 Major Research Equipment and Infrastructure Initiative (MREII) grant.

For those who could not attend the recent NSW NSP Workers Forum organised by ASHM, we are delighted to be able to provide an encore performance of the plenary presentation given by Professor and Deputy Director, Carla Treloar, National Centre in H

In September, CSRH hosted a seminar on Staying Safe: What can research about people who inject drugs tell us about how to avoid hepatitis C in the long-term?

Professor Seth Kalichman from the University of Connecticut visited CSRH on 15 October to share with CSRH colleagues his latest research and preview his presentation for the opening plenary of the Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference in Melbourne on 1

The National Gay Men’s HIV Health Promotion Conference, hosted by AFAO, was held in Sydney in May.

CSRH is continuing to coordinate successful capacity building education programs funded by AusAID under the Australian Leadership Award Fellowship (ALAF) scheme.

Hepatitis C: Prioritising patient involvement in care and treatment

The 2011 Annual Report of Trends in Behaviour was released on Tuesday, 27 September, at the Australasian HIV/AIDS Conference in Canberra.

This 3-week workshop will be held from 4 to 21 April and will be jointly hosted by the National Centre in HIV Social Research, UNSW, and the Comprehensive AIDS Research Centre, Tsinghua University, Beijing.

Social and Policy Research in HIV, Hepatitis C and Related Diseases.