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Plenary Session - Thursday

Thursday, October 14, 2021
8:55 AM - 10:30 AM

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Questions & Discussion

Questions & Discussion

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

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Dr Niklas Luhmann
Technical Officer
WHO

Real-world progress on hepatitis C elimination and future implementation challenges: Implications for people who inject drugs

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

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Biography

Dr Niklas Luhmann is a medical doctor with a Masters in International Public Health. He has been working for more than 10 years on access to healthcare with a focus on HIV and viral hepatitis. He joined WHO in 2019 where he works as a technical officer and leads the viral hepatitis prevention, testing and populations work.
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Dr. Stacey Trooskin
Chief Medical Officer
Philadelphia Fight Community Health Centers

Interventions to enhance testing and linkage to treatment for hepatitis C infection

9:20 AM - 9:40 AM

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Biography

Stacey Trooskin, MD, PhD is Chief Medical Officer and Director of Viral Hepatitis Programs at Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Centers and is a faculty member of the Infectious Diseases Division at the University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine.
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Dr Christopher Byrne
Public Health Intelligence Adviser
Public Health Scotland

Reaching people receiving opioid agonist therapy attending community pharmacies with HCV: An international cluster randomised controlled trial.

10:00 AM - 10:15 AM

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Biography

Christopher Byrne is a Clinical Trial Coordinator and PhD candidate at University of Dundee, his work focuses on hepatitis c virus infection.
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Mr. Trevor Goodyear
PhD Student
University Of British Columbia

“Stigma is where the harm comes from”: Exploring expectations and lived experiences of hepatitis C virus post-treatment trajectories among people who inject drugs

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM

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Speaker Presentation

Biography

Trevor Goodyear is a registered nurse and PhD student in the School of Nursing, University of British Columbia. He is also an Addiction Medicine Research Fellow with the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use. Trevor uses critical qualitative research approaches to advance health equity with people who use drugs.

Chair

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Behzad Hajarizadeh
Associate Professor
Unsw / Kirby Institute

Lise Lafferty
Senior Research Fellow
Centre for Social Research in Health


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Christopher Byrne
Public Health Intelligence Adviser
Public Health Scotland

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Trevor Goodyear
PhD Student
University Of British Columbia

Margaret Hellard
Deputy Director
Burnet Institute

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Niklas Luhmann
Technical Officer
WHO

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Stacey Trooskin
Chief Medical Officer
Philadelphia Fight Community Health Centers

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