ASRHA awards

The ASRHA awards recognise outstanding practice in the area of sexual and/or reproductive health. They are awarded during the Australasian Sexual Health Conference.

Past ASRHA Award Winners

  • 2024
    • Distinguished Services Award
      • Prof. Jane Hocking
    • Innovation Award
      • A/Professor Armin Ariana
    • Emerging Leader Award
      • Associate Prof. Simon Graham
  • 2023
    • Distinguished Services to Sexual Health Award
      • Dr. Kathleen McNamee (Sexual Health Society of Victoria)
    • Young Clinical Leader Award
      • Dr Erica Plummer (Sexual Health Society of Victoria)
  • 2022
    • Distinguished Services to Sexual Health Award
      • Catherine O’Connor (Private Practice HIV/STI Specialist)
    • Young Clinical Leader Award
      • Michael Traeger (PhD Candidate and Research Assistant, Burnett Institute)
    • Innovation Award
      • Sex and Prevention of Transmission Study (SPOTS) Team
  • 2021
    • Young Leader Award
      • Dr Julia Scott (Public Health Medicine Registrat, Health Intelligence Group, ESR, Kenepuru Science Centre)
    • Distinguished Services to Sexual Health
      • Professor James Ward ( Director of the University of Queensland Poche Centre for Indigenous Health)
  • 2020
    • Mid-Career Multi-Disciplinary Achiever Award
      • Dr Elissa Kennedy (Burnet Institute)
    • Distinguished Services to Sexual Health
      • Dr Christopher Bourne (NSW STI Programs Unit, NSW Health and Sydney Sexual Health Centre)
  • 2019
    • Mid-Career Multi-Disciplinary Achiever Award
      • Associate Professor Melissa Kang (The University of Technology, Sydney)
    • Distinguished Services to Sexual Health
      • Professor Jane Tomnay (Centre for Excellence for Rural Sexual Health, University of Melbourne)
  • 2018
    • Young Leader Award
      • Jessica Botfield (Family Planning NSW)
    • Mid-Career Multi-Disciplinary Achiever Award
      • Dr Graham Brown (Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society LaTrobe University)
    • Distinguished Services to Sexual Health
      • Dr Deborah Bateson (Family Planning NSW)
  • 2017
    • Young Leader Award
      • Gemma Hearnshaw (NSW STI Programs Unit)
      • Lauren Coelli (NSW Health)
    • Mid-Career Multi-Disciplinary Achiever Award
      • Associate Professor Christy Newman (University of New South Wales Centre for Social Research in Health)
      • Associate Professor Eric Chow (Melbourne Sexual Health Centre)
    • Distinguished Services to Sexual Health
      • Professor Christopher Fairley AO (Melbourne Sexual Health Centre)
  • 2016
    • Young Leader Award
      • Associate Professor Dr Jason Ong (Melbourne Sexual Health Centre)
    • Mid-Career Multi-Disciplinary Achiever Award
      • Dr Peter Saxton (School of Population Health, University of Auckland)
    • Distinguished Services to Sexual Health
      • Professor Basil Donovan (The Kirby Institute)
  • 2015
    • Young Leader Award
      • Dr Anna Yeung (University of New South Wales)
    • Mid-Career Multi-Disciplinary Achiever Award
      • Megan Lim (Centre for Population Health, Burnet Institute)
  • 2014
    • Young Leader Award
      • Christy Measham (Family Planning Tasmania)
      • El Thompson (Tasmanian Sexual Health Service)