Centre appoints new director

Centre appoints new director

Australia’s peak HIV social policy research institute, the National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHSR), has appointed a new director, a leading Dutch researcher, John De Wit.

Coming from a strong background in social research on sexual behaviour in men who have sex with men, De Wit has plans to even further progress the Centre’s standing and relevance.

The Centre has been very important worldwide in contextualising sexual and drug-related behaviours and elucidating how potentially risky practices are influenced and shaped by social processes and situations, De Wit said.

Our challenge now is to use our expertise to improve the appropriateness and effective-ness of treatment, prevention and care.

I want to try to position myself as a bridge between behavioural research and prevention practice. It makes us relevant, interesting and firmly grounded in reality. It also makes for important research.

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