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Gary Dowsett
Gary Dowsett is Professor in Sex, Health and Society and Deputy Director of the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) at La Trobe University in Melbourne.

Biography
Since 1986, Prof. Dowsett has been researching the HIV epidemic, particularly in Australia's gay communities, and has worked on many international HIV/AIDS and sexual health projects since the late 1980s, including research with community-based organisations in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Fiji, the US and UK, and other regional associations that focus on men who have sex with men. He has worked as a consultant and advisor to WHO, UNDP, UNAIDS and the Ford Foundation. From 2002 to 2005, Gary Dowsett was Associate Professor in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University in New York, and Associate Professor in Clinical Sociomedical Sciences from 2005 to 2009. In 2006, he was appointed to a Personal Chair in the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS), La Trobe University. In 2008, he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.