Born in 1941,[1] Kippax graduated from the University of Sydney with a BA (1968).[2] In 1970 she won a Rhodes Travelling Fellowship to study at the University of Oxford.[3] She completed her PhD (1972) at the University of Sydney.[2] Her thesis was titled Attitudes: A theory and experimental investigation of their complex nature.[4]
In 1973 Kippax joined the Department of Psychology at Macquarie University where she helped establish the National Centre in HIV Social Research (NCHIVSR) in 1995. In 1999 she and the NCHIVSR moved to the University of New South Wales. She was appointed Emeritus Professor in 2008.[3]
Rosengarten, Marsha; Race, Kane; Kippax, Susan (2000), Touch wood, everything will be ok: Gay men's understandings of clinical markers in sexual practice, National Centre in HIV Social Research, ISBN978-1-875978-40-3
Southgate, Erica; Kippax, Susan; Owler, Kathryn (2002), Social research needs analysis: The Australian Intravenous League and the Australian Hepatitis Council and their member organisations, National Centre in HIV Social Research, University of New South Wales, ISBN978-1-875978-53-3
Smith, Gary; Worth, Heather; Kippax, Susan (2004), Sexual adventurism among Sydney gay men, University of New South Wales, National Centre in HIV Social Research, ISBN978-1-875978-78-6
Kippax, Susan; Stephenson, Niamh (2016), Socialising the biomedical turn in HIV prevention, Anthem Press, an imprint of Wimbledon Publishing Company, ISBN978-1-78308-507-1