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John Imrie is affiliated with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and focuses their research primarily on medicine, with an emphasis on infectious diseases and health professions. Their work intersects social psychology and political science, contributing to a multidisciplinary understanding of health within specific populations.

The scientist's research explores several main topics including HIV/AIDS research and interventions, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, and LGBTQ health, identity, and policy. Additionally, their studies include HIV-related health complications and treatments, drug development and treatment related to HIV/AIDS, African sexualities and LGBTQ+ issues, and the broader impacts and responses to HIV/AIDS.

Recent publications by John Imrie reflect these research interests:

  • Assessment of weight gain in adult patients living with HIV receiving first-line dolutegravir-based or efavirenz-based ART regimens in routine care clinics in Tshwane district, South Africa: An observational study, 2024, HIV Medicine
  • Transgender-Specific Differentiated HIV Service Delivery Models in the South African Public Primary Health Care System (Jabula Uzibone): Protocol for an Implementation Study, 2024, JMIR Research Protocols
  • Exploring healthcare experiences of transgender people in the Jabula Uzibone study, South Africa: a longitudinal implementation science study, 2025, Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Transgender-Specific Differentiated HIV Service Delivery Models in the South African Public Primary Health Care System (Jabula Uzibone): Protocol for an Implementation Study, 2024, UNC Libraries
  • Exploring healthcare experiences of transgender people in the Jabula Uzibone study, South Africa: a longitudinal implementation science study, 2025, UNC Libraries

John Imrie has frequently published in venues such as UNC Libraries, HIV Medicine, JMIR Research Protocols, and the Journal of the International AIDS Society. These venues underline a focus on both scientific research dissemination and practical implementations in health sciences.

Collaborations are evident in their frequent co-authorship with researchers including Tonia Poteat, Rutendo Bothma, Audrey Pettifor, Innocent Maposa, and Cheryl Hendrickson. These collaborative relationships contribute to ongoing studies centered on HIV, transgender health service delivery, and public health interventions within South Africa.

Best Publications

  • Per-contact probability of HIV transmission in homosexual men in Sydney in the era of HAART.

    Fengyi Jin;James Jansson;Matthew Law;Garrett P Prestage

  • HIV prevention for South African youth: which interventions work? A systematic review of current evidence

    Abigail Harrison;Marie Louise Newell;Marie Louise Newell;John Imrie;John Imrie;Graeme Hoddinott

  • Unprotected anal intercourse, risk reduction behaviours, and subsequent HIV infection in a cohort of homosexual men.

    Fengyi Jin;June Crawford;Garrett P Prestage;Iryna Zablotska

  • Universal test and treat and the HIV epidemic in rural South Africa: a phase 4, open-label, community cluster randomised trial

    Collins C Iwuji;Collins C Iwuji;Joanna Orne-Gliemann;Joseph Larmarange;Eric Balestre

  • Increasing Rates of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Homosexual Men in Western Europe and the United States: Why?

    Kevin A. Fenton;John Imrie

  • Why do we need randomised controlled trials to assess behavioural interventions

    Judith Stephenson;John Imrie

  • Condoms and seat belts: the parallels and the lessons

    John Richens;John Imrie;Andrew Copas

  • Gay men's current practice of HIV seroconcordant unprotected anal intercourse: serosorting or seroguessing?

    Iryna B Zablotska;John Imrie;Garrett Prestage;June Crawford

  • Diagnosis and stigma and identity amongst HIV positive Black Africans living in the UK

    Paul Flowers;Mark David McGregor Davis;Graham Hart;Marsha Rosengarten

  • Evaluation of the impact of immediate versus WHO recommendations-guided antiretroviral therapy initiation on HIV incidence: the ANRS 12249 TasP (Treatment as Prevention) trial in Hlabisa sub-district, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.

    Collins C Iwuji;Joanna Orne-Gliemann;Frank Tanser;Sylvie Boyer;Sylvie Boyer

  • Anal sexually transmitted infections and risk of HIV infection in homosexual men.

    Fengyi Jin;Garrett P Prestage;John Imrie;Susan C Kippax

  • Social, behavioural, and intervention research among people of Sub-Saharan African origin living with HIV in the UK and Europe: literature review and recommendations for intervention.

    Audrey Prost;Jonathan Elford;John Imrie;Mark Petticrew

  • Is use of antiretroviral therapy among homosexual men associated with increased risk of transmission of HIV infection

    Judith Stephenson;John Imrie;Mark David McGregor Davis;C Mercer

  • Use of Illicit Drugs and Erectile Dysfunction Medications and Subsequent HIV Infection among Gay Men in Sydney, Australia

    Garrett Prestage;Fengyi Jin;Susan Kippax;Iryna Zablotska

  • Behavioural predictors of subsequent hepatitis C diagnosis in a UK clinic sample of HIV positive men who have sex with men

    J M Turner;A T Rider;J Imrie;A J Copas

  • A cognitive behavioural intervention to reduce sexually transmitted infections among gay men: randomised trial

    John Imrie;Judith M Stephenson;Frances M Cowan;Shamil Wanigaratne

  • Homosexual men in Australia: population, distribution and HIV prevalence.

    Garrett Paul. Prestage;Jason Alexander. Ferris;Jeffrey William. Grierson;Rachel Diana. Thorpe

  • Prevalence, incidence and risk factors for pharyngeal gonorrhoea in a community-based HIV-negative cohort of homosexual men in Sydney, Australia.

    David J Templeton;Fengyi Jin;Leon P McNally;John C G Imrie

  • Assessment of adolescent and youth friendly services in primary healthcare facilities in two provinces in South Africa

    Shamagonam James;Pedro T. Pisa;John Imrie;Moira P. Beery

  • Nonoccupational postexposure prophylaxis, subsequent risk behaviour and HIV incidence in a cohort of Australian homosexual men.

    I Mary Poynten;Fengyi Jin;Limin Mao;Garrett P Prestage

  • Use of Viral Load to Negotiate Condom Use Among Gay Men in Sydney, Australia

    Garrett Prestage;Limin Mao;Susan Kippax;Fengyi Jin

  • Trends in agreements between regular partners among gay men in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia.

    Garrett Prestage;Fengyi Jin;Iryna Zablotska;Andrew Grulich

Frequent Co-Authors

Garrett Prestage
Garrett Prestage University of New South Wales
Susan Kippax
Susan Kippax University of New South Wales
Graham Hart
Graham Hart University College London
Iryna Zablotska
Iryna Zablotska University of Sydney
Catherine H Mercer
Catherine H Mercer University College London
Martin Fisher
Martin Fisher University of Sussex
Marie-Louise Newell
Marie-Louise Newell University of Southampton
Till Bärnighausen
Till Bärnighausen Heidelberg University
Kevin A. Fenton
Kevin A. Fenton Public Health England
Chris Bonell
Chris Bonell London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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