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Virtual CVU: Mon 7th December 2020 - Program | ||
时间(墨尔本当地时间,AEDT) | 话题 | 主持人 |
9:00am - 9:05am | 欢迎 | A / Nigel Crawford 教授 Director, Melbourne Vaccine Education Centre |
9:05am - 09:35pm | COVID-19 vaccine safety after licensure – COVID-19 adverse events of special interest and adverse events following immunisation | A/Prof Helen Petousis-Harris Director, Vaccine Datalink and Research Group (Auckland, New Zealand) |
9:35am - 10:05am | COVID-19 vaccine safety communication | Prof Daniel Salmon Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore, USA) |
10:05am - 10:35am | COVID-19 vaccines update | A/Prof Chris Blyth Co-Chair, Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (Perth) |
10:35am - 10:50am | 问与答 | |
10:50am - 11:25am | Break | |
11:30am - 12:00pm | Vaccine communication and confidence – a consumer focus | Ms Rachel Callander Speaker, Author, Trainer, Artist, Photographer (Perth, WA) |
12:00pm - 12:30pm | The vulnerable young people catch-up vaccination project | Ms Belinda Tominc Clinical Nurse Consultant, The Royal Children's Hospital |
12:30pm - 12:55pm | Lunch break | |
1:00pm - 1:30pm | Influenza and influenza vaccine update | Prof Kanta Subbarao Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza |
1:30pm - 2:00pm | Pharmacists and immunisation | Ms Annie Cobbledick Immunisation Pharmacist, The Royal Children's Hospital |
2:00pm - 2:30pm | Measles update and experience from recent outbreaks | Dr Meru Sheel Infectious Diseases Epidemiologist and Westpac Research Fellow, Australian National University (Canberra, ACT) |
2:30pm - 2:45pm | Zoster vaccine update and errors | Ms Georgina Lewis / Ms Adele Harris Research Nurses, Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination In the Community |
2:45pm - 3:00pm | 问与答 关闭 |
主持人

奈杰尔·克劳福德副教授
Director, Melbourne Vaccine Education Centre
Associate Professor Crawford is a vaccinologist and consultant paediatrician, Director of SAEFVIC (Murdoch Children’s Research Institute) and Head of Immunisation Services at The Royal Children’s Hospital. He is an expert in the vaccination of special risk groups (e.g. immunosuppressed patients), a member of ATAGI and the co-Lead of AEFI-CAN.

Associate Professor Helen Petousis-Harris (Auckland, New Zealand)
Director, Vaccine Datalink and Research Group
Dr Petousis-Harris is a vaccinologist, Associate Professor in the Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, and the Director of the Vaccine Datalink and Research Group. She is the chair of the World Health Organization Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety (GACVS) and an elected member of the International Brighton Collaboration Science Board.

Professor Daniel Salmon (Baltimore, USA)
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Dr Salmon is a Professor in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is the Director of the Institute for Vaccine Safety. His research focuses have been on understanding vaccine acceptance and hesitancy, developing systems and science in vaccine safety, and effective vaccine risk communication.

Associate Professor Chris Blyth (Perth, WA)
co-Chair, Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation
A/Prof Blyth is a clinician scientist with the Division of Paediatrics in the University of Western Australia Medical School, a Research Fellow at Telethon Kids Institute and Head of Infectious Diseases at Perth Children’s Hospital. He is co-Chair of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation which provides advice to the Australian Government on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.

Ms Belinda Tominc
Clinical Nurse Consultant, The Royal Children’s Hospital
Belinda Tominc is a Clinical Nurse Consultant at the Young People’s Health Service. She is an experienced community health nurse with a particular interest in improving health access for vulnerable groups.

Rachel Callander (Perth, WA)
Speaker, author, trainer, artist, photographer
Rachel Callander is an award-winning speaker, author, trainer, artist and photographer. She helps healthcare professionals, patients and parents work together to develop an effective communication style that gets the best out of patients, parents and healthcare professionals.

Professor Heidi Larson
Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project (London, UK)
Heidi is an anthropologist and Director of the Vaccine Confidence Project and Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The Vaccine Confidence Project is a WHO centre of excellence on addressing vaccine hesitancy. Heidi is the previous head of Global Immunisation Communication at UNICEF, chaired GAVI’s advocacy taskforce and served on the WHO SAGE working group on vaccine hesitancy.

Professor Kanta Subbarao
Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza
Professor Subbarao has been the Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza and Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne at The Doherty Institute since 2016. She is a virologist and physician who specialises in paediatric infectious diseases.

Annie Cobbledick
Immunisation Pharmacist, The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne
Annie has been working at The Royal Children’s Hospital for three years, and began her role as the Immunisation Pharmacist in April 2018. Annie has a particular interest in immunisation access and equity, as well as embracing a multi-disciplinary approach to immunisation.

Dr Meru Sheel (Canberra, ACT)
Infectious diseases epidemiologist and Westpac Research Fellow, Australian National University
Dr Sheel is a global health researcher and an infectious diseases epidemiologist with interest in health emergencies, emerging infectious and vaccine-preventable diseases. Dr Sheel has worked in several dynamic and challenging environments in Australia and in the Asia-Pacific region including India, Cambodia, Samoa and American Samoa. In 2020, Dr Sheel was part of the response to the 2019 Pacific measles outbreak in Tonga and COVID-19 response in Tonga and Papua New Guinea.

Ms Georgina Lewis and Ms Adele Harris
Research Nurses, Surveillance of Adverse Events Following Vaccination In the Community (SAEFVIC)
Georgina is the Clinical Manager of SAEFVIC. She is an accredited Nurse Immuniser and works as a casual Nurse Immuniser with a local council. Her special interests include vaccine safety, surveillance, education and immunisation research.
Adele 是 SAEFVIC 的认可护士免疫员和研究护士。她的兴趣包括疫苗安全和监测、免疫研究和教育以及疫苗过敏。