My Expertise
Epidemiology and prevention of HIV infection, including behavioural and biomedical prevention. Malignancies associated with HIV infection and other immunodeficient states and infections. HPV infection and anal cancer. Epidemiological methods.
Biography
Andrew is an internationally renowned authority in the transmission and prevention of HIV and sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and in the epidemiological relationship between immune deficiency, infection and cancer.
He graduated in Medicine in 1986 (MBBS, Adelaide) and completed a MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene (1990) before returning to Australia where he completed a PhD in the epidemiology of HIV-associated...view more
Andrew is an internationally renowned authority in the transmission and prevention of HIV and sexually transmissible infections (STIs) and in the epidemiological relationship between immune deficiency, infection and cancer.
He graduated in Medicine in 1986 (MBBS, Adelaide) and completed a MSc in Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene (1990) before returning to Australia where he completed a PhD in the epidemiology of HIV-associated cancer at UNSW (1998). He is a medical epidemiologist and a Public Health Physician (FAFPHM, 1995) and in 2015 was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences. He has worked in HIV research for more than thirty years, and at the Kirby Institute (formerly known as the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research) since 1995. His current research is mainly in two areas: first, the transmission and prevention of HIV and sexually transmitted infections in homosexual men, with a focus on biomedical and behavioural prevention, and second, the intersection between infection, altered immune function and cancer, particularly as it relates to human papillomavirus-related cancer and focussing on anal cancer. Through his membership of state and federal ministerial advisory committees, he has been centrally involved in the policy response to HIV prevention in Australia.
Research Interests:
Epidemiology and prevention of HIV infection, including behavioural and biomedical prevention particularly pre-exposure prophylaxis. Malignancies associated with HIV infection and other immunodeficient states and infections. Human Papillomavirus infection and anal cancer. Epidemiological methods.
Broad Research Areas:
Cancer, Epidemiology, HIV - AIDS, Infectious Diseases, Immunology
Qualifications:
MB BS Adel, PhD UNSW, MScEpid Lond, DipObst Flin, FAFPHM, DRACOG, FAAHMS
Society Memberships & Professional Activities:
International AIDS Society (member of Governing Council); Member and past president, Australasian Society for HIV Medicine; member, Australasian Epidemiology Association; International Papillomavirus society; Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine
Specific Research Keywords:
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), Prevention, Cancer, Epidemiology, Immunology and Infectious Disease, Infectious disease control
My Grants
Andrew has held two NHMRC Principal Research Fellowships and currently holds an NHMRC Investigator grant (leadership level 3). In 2016-2020 he was named CI on grants totalling > $17million (>$56million in his career). Of these grants, in 2012-17 he was CIA on grants totalling $7.6million ($10.6million in his career). He has been successful as a CI in obtaining grants from the NHMRC (program, project, partnership schemes), Cancer Councils and Cure Cancer Australia, State and Federal Health Departments, the pharmaceutical industry, and international philanthropic organisations.
My Qualifications
1998 PhD, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW.
1990 MSc (Epid), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.
1986 MBBS, Adelaide University, South Australia.
Professional
1995 Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine, Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
1988 Diploma in Obstetrics, Flinders Medical Centre, South Australia.
My Awards
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2018 2015- |
University of New South Wales Peter Baume Public Health Impact Award for career achievement and excellence in public health and significant international public health impact Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences |
My Research Activities
Key highlights include
1. HIV treatment as prevention in gay men: The Opposites Attract study of over 300 HIV-serodiscordant gay men is a key foundation stone of the international undetectable = untransmissible movement and is extensively referenced in international guidelines.
2. Pre-exposure prophylaxis in homosexual men: the Expanded PrEP Implementation in Communities (NSW) study of close to 10,000 participants was one fo the first studies to demonstrate the population-level impact of PrEP. Grulich AE, Guy R, Amin J, Jin F, Selvey C, Holden J, Schmidt HMA, Zablotska I, Price K, Whittaker B, Chant K, Cooper C, McGill S, Telfer B, Yeung B, Levitt G, Ogilvie E, Dharan NJ, Hammoud MA, Vaccher S, Watchirs-Smith L, McNulty A, Smith DJ, Allen DM, Baker D, Bloch M, Bopage RI, Brown K, Carr A, Carmody CJ, Collins KL, Finlayson R, Foster R, Jackson EY, Lewis DA, Lusk J, O’Connor CC, Ryder N, Vlahakis E, Read P, Cooper DA, for the Expanded PrEP Implementation in Communities New South Wales (EPIC-NSW) research group. Population-level effectiveness of rapid, targeted, high-coverage roll-out of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in men who have sex with men: the EPIC-NSW study. Lancet HIV, 2018;5:e629-37i
3. The study of prevention of anal cancer (SPANC) was a 3-year cohort study of anal human papillomavirus infecion and related squamous intra-epithelial neoplasia in HIV-positive and HIV-negative homosexual men.
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Poynten IM, Jin F, Roberts JM, Templeton DJ, Law C, Cornall AM, Molano M, Machalek DA, Carr A, Farnsworth A, Tabrizi S, Phillips S, Fairley CK, Garland SM, Hillman RJ, Grulich AE on behalf of the Study of Prevention of Anal Cancer Study Team. The natural history of anal high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions in gay and bisexual men. Clin Inf Diseases. 2021;72:853-861.
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