Paul is a Senior Research Fellow of the Justice Health Research Program at the School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney, and associate of the NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Offender Health, and the Australian Human Rights Institute. His research activities, using diverse quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, have centred on health equity, marginalisation, and ethics among justice system involved populations with a focus on sexual health, infectious disease in prisons, and prison alternatives. As part of this portfolio, he has established expertise designing and implementing deliberative research methods within the justice health field having conducted various national deliberative forums with diverse stakeholders including, the public, incarcerated people, health service directors, and government, consumer and NGO stakeholders. He has nearly 10 years’ experience on research ethics committees and is currently co-chair of the Justice Health New South Wales Human Research Ethics Committee.