Rate My Professor Iryna Zablotska-Manos

Iryna Zablotska-Manos is Associate Professor in Sexual Health in the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, where she joined Sydney Medical School - Westmead in 2018. A medical doctor holding MD, MPH, and PhD degrees, including her PhD from Johns Hopkins University, she is an epidemiologist affiliated with the Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre. Prior to her current role, she served as Senior Lecturer from 2009 to 2016 and Associate Professor from 2017 at the Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, where she led the Australian Gay Community Periodic Surveys, a national initiative monitoring HIV and STI epidemiology among gay men. Earlier positions include Research Fellow from 2005 to 2009. Her career has focused on advancing HIV prevention research, including pioneering studies on pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) implementation in Australia.

Her research specializations encompass the epidemiology of HIV, sexually transmissible infections (STIs), reproductive health, family planning, and partner violence. Zablotska-Manos has authored 146 publications cited over 5,458 times according to ResearchGate, with key contributions including 'Potential and demonstrated impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sexually transmissible infections' (2021, with Ogunbodede and Lewis), 'High Adherence to HIV Pre-exposure Prophylaxis and No Transmission in Serodiscordant Couples' (2018), 'Trends in drug use among gay and bisexual men in Sydney, Melbourne and Queensland, Australia' (year not specified in sources), and studies on PrEP adherence and condom failure in serodiscordant relationships (2024). She has secured competitive funding such as the NHMRC project grant for 'The HIV prevention revolution: measuring outcomes and maximising effectiveness' (GNT1092852, co-investigator), ARC Discovery Project DP150103739 (chief investigator), Gilead Australia Fellowship research grant on PrEP (2012-13, $40,000 as CIA), and UNSW FASS ERC Fellowship Award (2009, $16,000). In teaching, she instructs postgraduate and medical students in epidemiological methods, statistical methods for public health, and epidemiology of reproductive health. She co-directs the Master of Medicine (Sexual and Reproductive Health) program and supervises research-based degrees. Her work has influenced national PrEP rollout and contributed to WHO guidelines on HIV treatment.