Sexual Health Plenary
Thursday, November 9, 2017 |
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM |
Royal Theatre |
Speaker
Mr Simon Blake
Chief Executive
National Union Of Students
Sexual Health and Young People: We Need to Smile, Trust and Work Together on This
8:45 AM - 9:15 AMBiography
Simon Blake is Chief Executive at the National Union of Students, and deputy chair of Stonewall the LGBT Charity. He has written widely on all aspects of sex and relationships education.
Professor Danielle Mazza
Head, Department Of General Practice
Monash University
Advancing women’s sexual and reproductive health in Australia: What needs to change?
9:15 AM - 9:45 AMBiography
Professor Danielle Mazza is the Head of the Department of General Practice at Monash University. Her major interest is in translational research, with particular focus on closing evidence practice gaps in preventive care, women's sexual and reproductive health, and cancer screening and guideline development and implementation using patient-based strategies. Danielle has forged strong links with academic and non-academic health care providers. Her relationship with the Inner East Melbourne Medicare Local has led to the establishment of Melbourne East MonAsh GeNeral PracticE DaTabase (MAGNET) a research platform which utilises a unique general practice dataset to generate evidence to inform policy and practice.
Dr Tariq Sadiq
Physician And Reader
St George's, University of London
Gollow Lecture: Enabling Rapid Personalized Medicine and Real-Time Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance for Global and Advanced Health Systems
9:45 AM - 10:15 AMBiography
Dr Sadiq is a Reader and Consultant physician at St George’s, University of London, where he directs the Applied Diagnostic Research and Evaluation Unit. He has extensive clinical experience in sexual health and HIV medicine with research interests including STI pathogenesis, host and microbial personalised medicine technology for therapeutics, rapid antimicrobial resistance detection and e-health care.