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Late Breakers Session 2

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
10:05 AM - 10:40 AM
Hall L (plenary)

Speaker

Mr Dylan Vella-Horne
Research Assistant
Burnet Institute

Towards Hep C elimination: feasibility and success of a nurse- and harm reduction practitioner-led model of care for Hepatitis C at a medically supervised injecting room in Melbourne, Australia.

10:05 AM - 10:10 AM

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Biography

Dylan Vella-Horne is a research assistant for the Burnet Institute and a Harm Reduction Practitioner within the Medically Supervised Injecting Room in Melbourne. He has been involved in a variety of research within the Alcohol and other Drugs sector and is currently undertaking a Public Health Masters.
Dr Jane Akhurst
Senior Project Manager
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Drug alerts in Australia: How do people who use drugs engage with alerts and what are their preferences for risk communications?

10:10 AM - 10:15 AM

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Biography

Jane is a postdoctoral fellow at the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre. She is currently working on the Informing Drug Alerts in Australia (IDAA) study, a collaborative project about communication of public health drug warnings.
Miss Alice Pierce
Director Of External Engagement And Advocacy
NSW Users And Aids Association

Drug alerts in Australia: How do people who use drugs engage with alerts and what are their preferences for risk communications?

10:10 AM - 10:15 AM

Biography

Alice Pierce is the Program Director at the New South Wales Users and AIDS Association (NUAA). She has over a decade of experience within the Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) sector, with half of that time spent in identified peer positions.
Dr May Erng
Phd Candidate
University Of Queensland

Key findings from a Delphi Study on the Novel Prenatal Alcohol Risk Perception (PARP) Model

10:15 AM - 10:20 AM

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Biography

A PhD candidate at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Queensland. Key interest in the prevention of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, specifically, effective prenatal alcohol exposure risk communication.
Dr. Koen Smit
Post-doctoral researcher
La Trobe University

The most harmful drinker in focus: A dyadic and relational exploration of alcohol's harms to others

10:20 AM - 10:25 AM

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Biography

Dr. Koen Smit from La Trobe University's Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, specialises in the influence of social, environmental, and behavioural factors on alcohol use. His research focused mainly on the influence of parental alcohol use on children's cognitions and drinking behavior and the impact of alcohol on broader society.
Professor Elizabeth Elliott
Distinguished Professor Paediatrics and Child Health
University of Sydney

Prenatal exposure to nicotine and/or cannabis impacts neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

10:25 AM - 10:30 AM

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Biography

Elizabeth Elliott is a Distinguished Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Sydney and Consultant Paediatrician at the Sydney Children's Hospitals Network, Westmead. She heads the NSW FASD Assessment Service, FASD Hub Australia, and FASD Australian Registry, and Chairs the National FASD Advisory Group.
Dr Joshua Trigg
Lecturer/Researcher
Flinders University

Association of anxiety and depression symptoms with perceived health risk of nicotine vaping products

10:30 AM - 10:35 AM

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Biography

Dr Trigg is a behavioural scientist whose work focuses on health risk factors, attitudes, and motivators of risk-taking behaviour. He studies nicotine vaping, tobacco and alcohol use attitudes and behaviours, and preventive health communication design. He also studies motivators and inhibitors of emergency behaviour and policy.

Chairperson

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Craig Rodgers
Senior Staff Specialist
St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney


Technical Host

Room One
Touchpoint

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