I am Visiting Professorial Fellow at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney as well as Professor of Public Health and Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University. Prior to relocating to Australia in early 2017, I spent a decade working with the Sigma Research group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where I led a number of national and international qualitative studies that explored HIV risk and prevention behaviours among gay and bisexual men, as well as community surveys and sexual health needs assessments of people living with HIV. At ARCSHS, I take a leading role in the development of research that examines the health and well-being of LGBTIQ populations, at both a domestic level and in an international context, especially in the areas of alcohol and other drug use, mental health and family violence. I also maintain active involvement in HIV related research, especially in low and middle-income contexts and collaborate with colleagues at the Kirby Institute on a number of HIV and LGBTQ health-related projects.

I have always adopted a community-based and action-oriented perspective to my research and am fortunate to have worked in collaboration with a number of community-based, national and supra-national organisations. Between mid-2015 and late 2016, I took a part time secondment to work with the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, helping to develop the research and evaluation capacity of the secretariat and a wide range of country level linking organisations in Africa and South East Asia. In January of 2020 I was appointed to the Victorian Whole of Government LGBTIQ Taskforce and since 2024 have served as its Co-Chair, alongside the Minister for Equalities. I also sit on the Board of Directors of Thorne Harbour Health (previously the Victorian AIDS Council), am Academic Advisor to the ACON Pride in Health and Wellbeing Program, and have served as advisor to several UNAIDS, WHO and World Bank working groups.