Winter Lecture 2025 - Professor Graham Hart

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We are delighted to announce that Professor Graham Hart, Professor of Sexual Health & HIV Research at University College London will be joining us to deliver our annual Winter Lecture.

About Graham

Graham graduated from the University of Leicester with 1st Class Hons in Social Sciences (1978) and was awarded his PhD from the University of Kent at Canterbury (1982). He was appointed Lecturer in Medical Sociology at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School (1986), Senior Lecturer at UCL (1992) and Associate Director of the MRC Social & Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow (1994). He returned to UCL in 2006 to direct the Centre for Sexual Health & HIV Research, and in 2010 became Director of the Institute of Population Health.


Graham is currently: Chair of the MRC Applied Global Health Research Board; Co-Chair of the MRC/DfID African Research Leader Scheme; Member of the MRC Population Health Strategy Group. He is a: Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences; Non-Executive Member of the Advisory Board of the UK Health Security Agency, and is a member of the UKHSA Science & Research Committee.


Professor Hart's research interests include sexual risk behaviour and the prevention of HIV and STIs, combining structural, behavioural, and biomedical approaches to prevention and the opportunities afforded by new prevention technologies. He has worked with a wide range of populations at risk of HIV and STIs, nationally and internationally. This includes men who have sex with men, young people, sex workers, and vulnerable groups in developed and developing countries.

About the lecture

This lecture will mark World Aids Day on December 1.

The event will take place in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre in the Old Medical School on Thursday 4 December, starting at 5.30 pm.

The event will be followed by a closing reception to which all are most welcome!

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