UCL Centre for Sexual Health & HIV Research

Postal address - Centre for Sexual Health & HIV Research Research Department of Infection & Population Health University College London Mortimer Market Centre off Capper Street LONDON WC1E 6JB

The Centre for Sexual Health & HIV Research was founded in 1979, as the Department of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, with the creation of the Duncan Guthrie Chair, the first in this speciality in the world.

The Centre forms part of the Research Department of Infection & Population Health of the Royal Free and University College Medical School and the Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences. Housed in the Mortimer Market Centre, the Centre shares accommodation with the largest clinic for sexually transmitted diseases in Europe. Since its foundation, the Centre has expanded steadily and is now staffed by a multidisciplinary team of epidemiologists, clinicians, statisticians and behavioural scientists examining a wide range of issues relating to sexual health and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS.

Since the advent of AIDS in the early 1980s, the Centre has had a major research interest in the epidemic. It works closely with the Medical Research Council's Clinical Trials Unit. The demands of the speciality have drawn the Centre into contact with Government bodies, various national and international organisations working in the field of HIV/AIDS, including charities and respite agencies. A joint initiative with the Research Department of Infection & Population Health is the Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology. It has brought together epidemiologists working in complementary areas and allowed development of a broader portfolio of research in infectious disease epidemiology.

The Centre Director is Professor Graham Hart.

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