16F. Affiliate Organisation Session - Crowdsourcing consensus for asymptomatic testing recommendations for MSM
Tracks
Track 6
Thursday, September 19, 2024 |
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM |
C4.6 |
Details
Chairs:
Teralynn Ludwick, University of Melbourne
Teralynn Ludwick, University of Melbourne
Speaker
Dr Eloise Williams
Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Physician
Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
Time to re-evaluate asymptomatic screening chlamydia and gonorrhoea infections in MSM
4:00 PM - 4:15 PMBiography
Dr Eloise Williams is a Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Physician at the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory. Her areas of interest include sexually transmitted infections, public health and translational research. She is completing a PhD focusing on novel diagnostics, prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections at the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne.
Dr. Tin Vo
Assistant Professor
Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto
Canadian Health System Perspectives on Asymptomatic Testing
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMBiography
Tin (he/they) is a postdoctoral researcher at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto. Their interdisciplinary, equity-focused research centres social exclusion as a determinant of health. Using a critical lens, their scholarship evaluates policies and systems, and explores intersectional experiences of marginalized communities to enhance their wellbeing.
Dr. Teralynn Ludwick
Senior Research Fellow
University Of Melbourne
Discussions on Polis results from conference participants highlighting some opinions to discuss.
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMBiography
Teralynn Ludwick is a public health researcher with a focus on health services research and evaluation. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health and is managing the co-design and implementation research of Victoria, Australia’s first online sexual health clinic
Mr Matthew Vaughan
Director HIV & Sexual Health
ACON
Crowdsourcing consensus for asymptomatic testing recommendations for Gay, Bisexual and Queer Men (GBQM) for Chlamydia and gonorrhoea
4:45 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
IUSTI World Congress
Panel Discussion
4:45 PM - 5:30 PMBiography
Dr. Matthew Golden
Professor
University Of Washington
Moderator
Biography
Dr. Janneke Heijne
Head of department
Public Health Service Of Amsterdam; Amsterdam UMC
Panelist
Biography
Janneke Heijne is head of the research department of infectious diseases at the Public Health Services in Amsterdam . She is specialized in combining mathematical modelling with epidemiology and behavioural sciences to enhance public health decision making. She obtained her PhD at the university of Bern Switzerland on control of chlamydia transmission and worked for 10 years at the Dutch national institute of public health and the environment in the STI department.
Dr John Saunders
Consultant
UK Health Security Agency
Panelist
Biography
Dr John Saunders is a Consultant in Genitourinary medicine and Deputy Head of Programme Delivery and Service Improvement at the UK Health Security Agency. He is the lead for forthcoming UK guidelines on doxyPEP. Since 2018, he has been the UKHSA lead for the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Blood Borne and Sexually Transmitted Infections at UCL.
Prof Nicholas Medland
Researcher
The Kirby Institute
Panelist
Biography
Dr Nick Medland is a consultant physician in HIV and sexual health and a researcher in HIV and STIs at Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. He chairs the Australian STI Management guidelines, co-author of the Australian Doxy-PEP consensus statement and on the upcoming BASHH Doxy-PEP guideline. He has worked extensively in Australia and South East Asia.
Mr Matthew Vaughan
Director HIV & Sexual Health
ACON
Panelist
Biography
Matthew is the Director for HIV Sexual Health, where he leads the strategy and development of the multi award-winning campaign Ending HIV, which seeks to end HIV transmissions in NSW. Matthew has been working within the community services sector for the past 15 years working in a variety of roles within government, non-government and community-based organisations at state, national and international levels. Matthew has a love of technology and digital media, and specialises in how that passion can be used to build effective behaviour change interventions.
Chair
Teralynn Ludwick
Senior Research Fellow
University Of Melbourne
