Session G: Achieving Triple Elimination by 2030
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Friday, July 21, 2023 |
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM |
Ballroom 2 |
Speaker
Prof Marina Klein
Professor Of Medicine
McGill University Health Centre Research Institute
Clinical Perspective
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMBiography
Dr. Marina Klein is a Professor of Medicine at McGill University, in the Division of Infectious Diseases/Chronic Viral Illnesses Service where she is Research Director and leads the MI4 Clinical Research Platform. She is National co-director of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) – Canadian HIV Trials Network (CTN) and holds a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Clinical and Epidemiologic Studies of Chronic Viral Infections in Vulnerable Populations. Dr Klein is leading “Métropoles sans Hep C“, an innovative community-focused program aiming to make Montreal the first city in North America to eliminate HCV.
Dr Morkor Newman Owiredu
Medical Officer
World Health Organisation
Achieving Triple Elimination of mother-to-child or ‘vertical transmission’ of HIV, syphilis and HBV by 2030
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Morkor is a public health physician, leading the work on Triple Elimination of MTCT of HIV, syphilis and HBV in the Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI programs WHO Geneva. She formerly worked in the WHO African Regional Office and has extensive experience in communicable disease, HIV and STI responses and reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health.
Dr Rachel Devi
Head Of Family Health Unit
Fiji Family Health Unit
Fiji's Roadmap towards Triple Elimination by 2030
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMBiography
Dr Rachel Devi, a Public Health Specialist from the Fiji Medical and Dental Council, holding a Masters in International Public health from the University of Sydney, and a Medical Doctor by profession, is currently managing, Maternal, New-Born, Child, Reproductive, Adolescent and Sexual health in Fiji.
Angela Kelly
GP
UNSW / PNG IMR
Social Science Perspective
5:00 PM - 5:15 PMBiography
Chairperson
Gail Matthews
Program Head, Therapeutic and Vaccine Research Program, Department Head of Infectious Disease Physician
The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
Michelle O’Connor
Director, ASHM Global
ASHM Health