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- Professor of Sexual Health and HIV Research
- Institute for Global Health
- Faculty of Pop Health Sciences
Professor
Graham J Hart is Professor of Sexual Health & HIV Research at University
College London and Co-Director of UCL Health of the Public, a virtual School
bringing academic disciplines together to solve complex health problems. From
2011- 2021, Graham was the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Population Health
Sciences.
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) and Associate Director of the MRC
Social & Public Health Sciences Unit at the University of Glasgow
(1994).
Graham is
currently: Co-Chair of the MRC/DfID African Research Leader Scheme; Chair of
the MRC Public Health Intervention Development (PHIND) Panel; Member of the MRC
Population Health Strategy Group. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical
Sciences and Governor on the Board of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.


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.
His major contributions are to health policy and promotion, particularly in HIV
and sexual health. Two significant examples are: needle exchange for injecting
drug users (IDU); HIV prevention in men who have sex with men (MSM).
After needs assessment which found high levels of sharing
of drug injecting equipment amongst IDU he was instrumental in setting up, and
then evaluating, the first dedicated needle-exchange in the UK and the roll-out
of this harm reduction strategy in England and Wales using combined behavioural
and biomarker data. This work has been cited internationally, helped with the
adoption of harm minimisation globally, and contributed to reduced parenteral
transmission of HIV throughout the world.
His research on men who have sex with men is widely cited
and has informed HIV prevention strategies in the UK and internationally. He
undertook the first community-based survey of prevalent HIV using oral fluid
antibody tests and the first UK evaluation of peer-education for risk reduction
in MSM. He led work which first described in Scotland increased risk-behaviour
after the introduction of HIV therapy in the mid-1990s, and subsequently
specified the undiagnosed fraction of HIV in community-recruited MSM across the
UK. This work also demonstrated high levels of sexual risk taking in HIV
positive men. These studies have informed the development of HIV prevention in
MSM in the UK and internationally and been vital for government and NGO
prevention efforts.
MSc in Sexually Transmitted Diseases & HIV
MSc in Health Psychology
MBBS
01-AUG-2011 – 31-JUL-2021 | Dean | Faculty of Population Health Sciences | UCL, United Kingdom |
1982 | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Kent | |
1978 | Bachelor of Arts (Honours) | University of Leicester |