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Dr Susan Kippax

Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia

Fellow | Emeritus Professor

http://www.assa.edu.au/fellows/profile.php?id=176

 

Research Interests

Susan Kippax has a PhD in Social Psychology and is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia. She is Emeritus Professor in the Social Policy Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia having retired from the position of Director of the National Centre in HIV Social Research (1995-2007).  She has published extensively in HIV/AIDS social research and through her research, teaching and policy advisory roles has played a central role in the framing of Australia’s response to HIV/AIDS.  Professor Kippax is currently joint Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the International AIDS Society, a founding Editor of Culture, Health and Sexuality: an International Journal, and is a member of the Global HIV Prevention Working Group, and the UNAIDS HIV Prevention Reference Group.

 

Recent Publications

Kippax, S. (2003) Sexual health interventions are unsuitable for experimental evaluation, in J. M. Stephenson, J. Imrie & C. Bonell  (eds.) Effective Sexual Health Interventions: issues in experimental evaluation, Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 17-34.

Kippax, S. and Race, K. (2003) Sustaining safe practice: twenty years on, Social Science & Medicine, 57, pp. 1-12.

Kippax, S., Slavin, S., Hendry, O., Ellard, J., Richters, J., Grulich, A. & Kaldor, J. (2003) Seroconversion in context, AIDS Care, 15, pp. 839-852

Weaver, H., Smith, G., & Kippax, S. (2005) School-based sex education policies and indicators of sexual health among young people: a comparison of the Netherlands, France, Australia and the United States, Sex Education, 5, 2, 171-188. [top ten list of the journal’s articles (since the journal’s inception) downloaded from the Routledge online platform informaworld during 2009.]

Kippax, S. (2006) A public health dilemma: a testing question. AIDS Care, 18, pp. 230-235.

Friedman, S.R., Kippax, S., Phaswana-Mafuya, N., Rossi, D. & Newman, C.  (2006) Emerging future issues in HIV/AIDS social research, AIDS, 20, pp. 959-961.

Stephenson, N. & Kippax, S. (2006) Transfiguring relations: Theorising political change in the everyday. Theory & Psychology, 16, pp. 391-415.

Imrie, J., Elford, J., Kippax, S. & Hart, G. (2007)  Biomedical HIV prevention – and social science,  The Lancet, [Editorial Commentary] 370, pp. 10-11

Kippax, S.  (2008) Understanding and integrating the structural and biomedical determinants of HIV-infection: a way forward for prevention, Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 3, pp. 489-494.

Kippax, S. & Holt, M. (2009). The state of social and political science research related to HIV: a report for the International AIDS Society. Geneva: International AIDS Society.

Kippax, S.  (2010) Safe sex: it’s not as simple as ABC, in Peter Aggleton and Richard Parker (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Sexuality, Health and Rights,  pp. 184-192. London: Routledge

Kippax, S. & Stephenson, N. Infectious disease and globalization, in Bryan S. Turner (Ed.) (2010)  The Routledge International Handbook of Globalization Studies, pp. 205-226. Oxford: Routledge. 

Kippax, S., Holt, M. & Friedman, S. (2011) Bridging the social and the biomedical: engaging the social and political sciences in HIV research. Journal of International AIDS Society, 14(suppl.2), S1.

Kippax, S., Reis, E. & DeWit, J. (2011) Two Sides to the HIV Prevention Coin: Efficacy and Effectiveness.  AIDS Education & Prevention, 23(5), pp. 393-396.