Dr Ford Hickson BSc PhD
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- LSHTM
- 15-17 Tavistock Place
- London
- WC1H 9SH
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Ford worked at the Terrence Higgins Trust and at Frontliners in the late 1980s. He joined Sigma Research in 1990. Sigma Research joined LSHTM in 2011.
Ford has spent the last twenty years researching and describing patterns of sex between men, particularly with reference to HIV transmission. For the past ten years he has led the design of the National Gay Men’s Sex Survey and was centrally invovled in the Pan-European EMIS in 2010.
In 1998 he co-authored the national HIV prevention strategy for gay and bisexual men (Making It Count) with a group of community health promoters, which was subsequently adopted by the Department of Health. His doctoral thesis was on Authority, HIV and sex between men. Ford has co-authored 18 peer reviewed journal articles and a book, as well as numerous monographs and book chapters. He has sat on several HIV and MSM related committees, most recently the Office for National Statistics’ Sexual Identity Project Expert Research Group.
Affiliation
Teaching
Ford leads seminars on Theory of Health Promotion and Social Research Methods, and delivers the lecture on HIV/STI Prevetion among Men who have Sex with Men on the Control of STIs/RTIs module.
Research
Ford is currently engaged in the analysis and write up of EMIS, a pan-European internet survey of men who have sex with men carried out by a large community and public health collaboration across Europe. The project aims to describe the levels and distribution of HIV related riosk behaviours, HIVprevetion needs and HIV prevention intervetion coverage.
He is also currently running The Sigma Panel, a one year longitudinal study of sexual decision making among men in England who have sex with men, funded by CHAPS (through Terrence Higgins Trust).
Research areas
- Behaviour change
- Complex interventions
- Health promotion
- Public health
- Risk
- Sexual health
- Social and structural determinants of health
Disciplines
- Demography
- Psychology
- Social Sciences
Disease and Health Conditions
- HIV/AIDS
- Sexually transmitted disease
- Sexually transmitted infection
Regions
- Euro area
- European Union
Countries
- United Kingdom
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Selected publications
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Illicit drug use among men who have sex with men in England and Wales
Hickson, F.; Bonell, C.; Weatherburn, P.; Reid, D.
Addiction Research & Theory, 2010; 18(1):14-22
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Methamphetamine use among gay men across the UK.
Bonell, C.P.; Hickson, F.C.; Weatherburn, P.; Reid, D.S.;
Int J Drug Policy, 2009; 21(3):244-6
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Factors associated with HIV seroconversion in gay men in England at the start of the 21st century.
Macdonald, N.; Elam, G.; Hickson, F.; Imrie, J.; McGarrigle, C.A.; Fenton, K.A.; Baster, K.; Ward, H.; Gilbart, V.L.; Power, R.M.; Evans, B.G.;
Sex Transm Infect, 2008; 84(1):8-13
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Risky sexual behaviour in context: qualitative results from an investigation into risk factors for seroconversion among gay men who test for HIV.
Elam, G.; Macdonald, N.; Hickson, F.C.; Imrie, J.; Power, R.; McGarrigle, C.A.; Fenton, K.A.; Gilbart, V.L.; Ward, H.; Evans, B.G.; INSIGHT Collaborative Research Team, .;
Sex Transm Infect, 2008; 84(6):473-7
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The knowledge, the will and the power: a plan of action to meet the HIV prevention needs of Africans in England
Dodds, C.; Hickson, F.; Chinouya, M.; Chwaula, J.; Weatherburn, P.
Sigma Research (London) 2008
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HIV, sexual risk, and ethnicity among men in England who have sex with men.
Hickson, F.; Reid, D.; Weatherburn, P.; Stephens, M.; Nutland, W.; Boakye, P.;
Sex Transm Infect, 2004; 80(6):443-50
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