18A. IUSTI Abstracts: Epidemiology and surveillance
Tracks
Track 1
Friday, September 20, 2024 |
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
C4.8 |
Details
Chairs:
Wilhelmina Huston, University of Technology Sydney
Zoïe Alexiou, National Institute For Public Health And The Environment, STI department
Wilhelmina Huston, University of Technology Sydney
Zoïe Alexiou, National Institute For Public Health And The Environment, STI department
Speaker
Ms Aamirah Mussa
Research Fellow
Botswana Harvard Health Partnership / University Of Edinburgh
Prevalence of chlamydia and gonorrhoea among patients presenting with genital ulcer disease in Botswana
10:30 AM - 10:42 AMBiography
I am a Research Fellow at the Botswana Harvard Health Partnership (BHP) and I am currently pursuing a PhD in Global Health at the University of Edinburgh. My research focuses around women’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH), including STI diagnosis and treatment and HIV.
Ms Maartje Visser
epidemiologist
National Institute For Public Health And The Environment (RIVM)
Rapid gonorrhoea rise (2022-2023) among heterosexuals visiting sexual health centres in the Netherlands
10:42 AM - 10:54 AMBiography
Maartje Visser is working as an STI epidemiologist at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) in the Netherlands, and as a PhD student at Maastricht University. Her work focusses on general STI surveillance, gonorrhoea, and gonococcal antimicrobial resistance.
Dr. Anna Yeung
Adjunct Scientist
Unity Health Toronto
Trends in Knowledge, Testing, and Prevalence of Sexually Transmissible Infections: Insights from Three Australian Surveys of Health and Relationships (2001-2023)
10:54 AM - 11:06 AMBiography
Anna Yeung is a Research Program Manager at Unity Health Toronto in Toronto, Canada, with projects on bacterial STIs and infection-related cancers. She completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne and postdoc on the Australian Study of Health and Relationships at the University of New South Wales.
Prof Jane Hocking
Head, Sexual Health Unit
University Of Melbourne
Geographical distribution and prevalence of urogenital chlamydia and trachoma: An ecological study
11:06 AM - 11:18 AMBiography
Professor Jane Hocking is an epidemiologist and implementation researcher whose research interests include the epidemiology and control of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), sexual health and the implementation and evaluation of primary care interventions.
Dr Kayla Carter
Postdoctoral Fellow
University Of Maryland School Of Medicine
Exploring associations of the vaginal microbiome and STI co-infections with spontaneous clearance of urogenital Chlamydia trachomatis
11:18 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Dr. Kayla A. Carter, PhD, MPH, trained in epidemiology at the University of Washington. Dr. Carter is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Genome Sciences, and their work focuses on the vaginal microbiome, metagenomics, sexually transmitted infections, and bacterial vaginosis.
Ms Prisha Balgovind
Research Assistant
Royal Women's Hospital
Human Papillomavirus prevalence among unvaccinated and vaccinated Australian men aged 18–35 years, in 2015–2018 by sexual preference
11:30 AM - 11:42 AMBiography
Prisha began working at the Centre for Women's Infectious Diseases at the Women's Hospital (Melbourne) in 2018. She largely focuses on the laboratory components of IMPACT - the National HPV Monitoring Program in Australia, as well as other STI projects involving organisms such as mycoplasma genitalium.
IUSTI World Congress
Questions & Discussion
11:42 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
Chair
Zoïe Alexiou
PhD candidate
National Institute For Public Health And The Environment, STI department
Wilhelmina Huston
Associate Dean Teaching and Learning and Research Group Leader
University Of Technology Sydney
Judge
Remco Peters
Medical Officer
World Health Organization
Judges Invited
Laith Abu Raddad
Professor
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Tanya Applegate
Associate Professor
The Kirby Institute
