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16A. IUSTI Abstracts: Epidemiology and Surveillance

Tracks
Track 1
Thursday, September 19, 2024
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Pyrmont Theatre

Details

Chairs:
Laith Jamal Abu Raddad, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar


Speaker

Dr Ben Hui
Lecturer
The Kirby Institute

The potential impact of providing post-exposure prophylaxis to MSM on the incidence of gonorrhoea and infectious syphilis compared with standard practice.

4:00 PM - 4:12 PM

Biography

Ben Hui is a mathematical modeller at Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. His works include the development of models that describe the impact of interventions on the spread of infections. His most recent work investigates the potential effect of intervention on STI transmission among men who have sex with men.
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Dr Michael Traeger
Research Fellow
Burnet Institute

Uptake of doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis (doxyPEP) and declines in bacterial sexually transmitted infections following doxyPEP initiation among HIV PrEP users in a real-world setting

4:12 PM - 4:24 PM

Biography

Michael Traeger is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, Australia, and also a fellow in the Department of Population Medicine at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute in Boston, United States.
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Dr. Paul Adamson
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCLA School of Medicine

High prevalence of ceftriaxone resistance associated with the penA-60 allele among Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in Hanoi, Vietnam

4:24 PM - 4:36 PM

Biography

Paul Adamson is an Assistant Clinical Professor and infectious diseases physician at UCLA. His research interests include improving the diagnosis and treatment of STIs in low-resource settings. Currently, his research focuses on the epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae among vulnerable populations in Vietnam.
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Dr Denton Callander
Senior Research Fellow
Kirby Institute, UNSW

Trends in the incidence of sexually transmissible infections among transgender and gender non-binary people in Australia: A 10-year national study

4:36 PM - 4:48 PM

Biography

Denton Callander (he/him) is a social and spatial epidemiologist. His mixed methods research in Africa, Australasia, Europe, and North America investigates interdisciplinary questions about sex, sexuality, and sexual health.
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Dr Abbie Harrison
Field Epidemiology Training Fellow
Uk Health Security Agency

Oropharyngeal gonorrhoea: is this reservoir the key to understanding rising infection rates among young heterosexuals?

4:48 PM - 5:00 PM

Biography

FETP Field Epidemiology Training Fellow at the Public Health Agency's Health Protection Surveillance Department in Northern Ireland. PhD from the University of Liverpool with the Respiratory and Emerging Viruses group. Interests include health inequities, big data analytics, infectious disease surveillance, and global health initiatives.
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Prof Monica Lahra
Medical Director
WHO CC for STI and AMR NSWHP Microbiology The Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick

Investigation and response to an outbreak of urogenital and anorectal infections of Neisseria meningitidis serogroup Y ST-1466, Australia

5:00 PM - 5:12 PM

Biography

Professor Monica Lahra is a Medical Microbiologist and Director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for STI and AMR and the Neisseria Reference Laboratory, Sydney Australia. This WHO CC coordinates the Australian Meningococcal and Gonococcal Surveillance Programmes for the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.
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Questions & Discussion

5:12 PM - 5:30 PM

Biography


Chair

Laith Abu Raddad
Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar


Judges Invited

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Jason Ong
Sexual Health Physician
Monash University

Marc Steben
President
ISSTDR

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Maartje Visser
epidemiologist
National Institute For Public Health And The Environment (RIVM)

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