Lunch Session: Ending syphilis in Australia and the Pacific - ASHM session
Tracks
Track 2
Wednesday, September 18, 2024 |
12:40 PM - 1:55 PM |
C2.2 |
Details
Chairs:
Lucas de Toca, Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Michelle O'Connor, ASHM Health
Lucas de Toca, Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Michelle O'Connor, ASHM Health
Speaker
Professor Paul Kelly
Chief Medical Officer
Department of Health and Aged Care
The syphilis response in Australia
12:40 PM - 12:48 PMBiography
Professor Paul Kelly is the Australian Government’s Chief Medical Officer. He is a public health physician and epidemiologist who has been a researcher, health systems developer, post-graduate teacher and a health executive in Australia and internationally. He has advised the Commonwealth Government and the National Cabinet during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor James Ward
Director
UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health original Health
Priorities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in Australia’s syphilis response
12:48 PM - 12:56 PMBiography
Professor James Ward is a Pitjantjatjara and Nukunu man, an infectious diseases epidemiologist and a national leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research. He is currently the Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at The University of Queensland.
Dr Petronia Kaima
PNG National Health Department HIV program
Png National Health Department
The syphilis response in PNG
12:56 PM - 1:04 PMBiography
Dr. Petronia Kaima, Senior STI and HIV Medical Officer working with the National Department of Health, PNG
Ms Maia Da Costa Tilman
Project Manager
Maluk Timor
Supporting triple elimination in Timor-Leste
1:04 PM - 1:12 PMBiography
Maia is a Timorese health professional whose career spans nursing, clinical quality improvement, public health, and project management who is passionate about health system strengthening to improve health outcome for communities through health workforce capacity building.
Dr Eleanor MacMorran
HIV Clinical Mentor
Maluk Timor
Supporting triple elimination in Timor-Leste
1:04 PM - 1:12 PMBiography
Eleanor is an Infectious Diseases physician who is passionate about health system strengthening and providing quality HIV care in resource-limited environments. She divides her time between clinical work in Hobart and supporting an HIV program in Timor-Leste. She works as a consultant for ASHM and for Maluk Timor.
IUSTI World Congress
Panel Discussion
1:12 PM - 1:55 PMBiography
Professor Paul Kelly
Chief Medical Officer
Department of Health and Aged Care
Panelist
Biography
Professor Paul Kelly is the Australian Government’s Chief Medical Officer. He is a public health physician and epidemiologist who has been a researcher, health systems developer, post-graduate teacher and a health executive in Australia and internationally. He has advised the Commonwealth Government and the National Cabinet during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Professor James Ward
Director
UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health original Health
Panelist
Biography
Professor James Ward is a Pitjantjatjara and Nukunu man, an infectious diseases epidemiologist and a national leader in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander research. He is currently the Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at The University of Queensland.
Dr Petronia Kaima
PNG National Health Department HIV program
Png National Health Department
Panelist
Biography
Dr. Petronia Kaima, Senior STI and HIV Medical Officer working with the National Department of Health, PNG
Professor Michael Marks
Professor Of Medicine
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Panelist
Biography
Michael Marks is Professor of Medicine at LSHTM and an Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, University College London Hospital. His major area of interest has been the epidemiology and control of Treponema pallidum including using next-generation sequencing approaches, evaluating Linezolid as a new oral therapy for syphilis investigating integrating near-patient diagnostics for STIs into antenatal care in Zimbabwe.
Ms Maia Da Costa Tilman
Project Manager
Maluk Timor
Panelist
Biography
Maia is a Timorese health professional whose career spans nursing, clinical quality improvement, public health, and project management who is passionate about health system strengthening to improve health outcome for communities through health workforce capacity building.
Dr Eleanor MacMorran
HIV Clinical Mentor
Maluk Timor
Panelist
Biography
Eleanor is an Infectious Diseases physician who is passionate about health system strengthening and providing quality HIV care in resource-limited environments. She divides her time between clinical work in Hobart and supporting an HIV program in Timor-Leste. She works as a consultant for ASHM and for Maluk Timor.
Chair
Lucas de Toca
Ambassador For Global Health
Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Michelle O’Connor
Director, ASHM Global
ASHM Health
