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Session K: Delivering sustainable frameworks

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Wednesday, March 15, 2023
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Grand Ballroom 2

Speaker

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Dr Susan Matthews
Co-Director
Flinders University International Centre for Point of Care Testing

Integrating community, public health and regulatory needs for sustainable point-of-care testing delivery: lessons learnt and future challenges

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

Biography

Dr Susan Matthews is Co-Director at the Flinders University International Centre for Point-of-Care Testing in South Australia. She leads point-of-care (POCT) service delivery and research for acute, chronic, and infectious diseases, primarily in remote primary health services. She is a CI with the Kirby Institute (UNSW) NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence (CRE) and other infectious disease POCT scale-up NHMRC and MRFF grants, the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre multi-country POCT validation for sexually transmitted infections and non-communicable disease POCT research and the World Organisation of Family Doctors POCT special interest group. Having a PhD and MAACB, she has approximately 20 years of experience as a senior medical scientist at The Royal Children’s Hospital and The Royal Melbourne Hospital and junior medical scientist St Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne. She has contributed to scientific committees and advisory groups for the AACB, IFCC and RCPAQAP Advisory Group for Newborn Screening and Dried Blood Spot Testing and is a NATA technical assessor (ISO15189).
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Lady Roslyn Morauta
Vice-Chair
Board of the Global Fund

The pivotal role of point of care innovations in the fight to end AIDS, TB and malaria

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM

Biography

Lady Roslyn Morauta is the Vice-Chair of the Board of the Global Fund. She has a long association with the Global Fund having served as alternate Board Member for the Western Pacific Region constituency and as Chair of the Papua New Guinea Country Coordinating Mechanism. From her time also as first lady of Papua New Guinea, she has steadily championed health, HIV programs and gender issues. Lady Roslyn Morauta has worked in Papua New Guinea for the National Planning Office, the Department of Finance and Treasury and in the private sector, both as a management consultant and running businesses. Originally from Australia, she has lived and worked in Papua New Guinea since 1982. Prior to that, she worked in publishing in England, taught politics at the University of Ghana, the Australian National University and Queensland University.
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Dr Duncan Macinnis
Director of Stakeholder Engagement (NSW & ACT)
MTPConnect

Sustainability of PoC testing in the Australian context

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

Biography

Dr Duncan Macinnis is Director for Stakeholder Engagement at MTPConnect, and has been in this role since January 2020. He has extensive experience in scientific research, development and commercialisation, and external engagement. Prior to joining MTPConect, Duncan was Business Development Manager for the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney, responsible for industry engagement activities with the University’s researchers, multinational pharmaceutical and medtech companies, affiliated medical research institutes and NSW local health districts. In a prior role at University of Sydney, he was Commercialisation Officer for the Science, Medicine and Health, and Engineering faculties. He has also held a number of commercial roles, including Commercial Manager at an ASX-listed drug discovery company. Duncan holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Western Sydney, a Bachelor of Advanced Science with Honours (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology) from UNSW and a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Australian Institute of Business.

Chairperson

Arika Garg
Associate Director, Global Diagnostics
Clinton Health Access Initiative

Angela Kelly-Hanku
Scientia Associate Professor
PNG Institute of Medical Research and Kirby, UNSW

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