I am a Canadian-born researcher and writer based in Sydney, Australia. My research program aims to strengthen responses to gender, social justice, and sexual and reproductive health and rights. My work provides something different: I use co-design approaches in which people with lived experience and professionals are involved as active co-researchers in the design of solutions to the sexual and reproductive health challenges they face. I define sexual and reproductive health holistically to include contraception, pregnancy, infertility, HIV and STIs, gender-based violence, and reproductive cancers, as well as the neglected areas of sexual agency, satisfaction, and pleasure. My main research areas include: 1. understanding the intersecting social determinants of sexual and reproductive health; 2. co-designing interventions to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes; and 3. translating evidence regarding sexual and reproductive health to communities using creative and participatory methods. I am currently engaged in several research projects in Australia and Canada with women living with HIV, young people with disability, migrant communities, and the general population. I have published widely in international journals and write regularly about health, sexuality, and relationships for the public. I am a Senior Lecturer and Group Leader of the Sexual Health and Reproductive Equity (SHARE) Research Group at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, an Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute, and an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University in Canada. I am available to provide expert opinion about sexual and reproductive health and rights for writers and producers of broadcast, print, and online media. View my university research profile here: https://kirby.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-allison-carter

Below are a few topics I study regularly and select Journal Articles.