Invited Speaker Session - Innovating for Equity
Tracks
Track 2
Wednesday, September 20, 2023 |
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM |
Freshwater & Queenscliff |
Speaker
Associate Professor Arun Menon
Director
Townsville Sexual Health Service
Syphilis testing initiatives
10:30 AM - 10:45 AMBiography
Prof Lei Zhang
Professor
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Australia
Professor Jason Ong
Sexual Health Physician
Monash University
Use of innovative methods for generating and developing solutions from the community
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMBiography
A/Prof Dr. Jason Ong is an academic sexual health specialist and health economist based at Melbourne Sexual Health Centre. His research focuses on economic evaluations and demand creation strategies to improve the uptake of HIV/STI services. He is board director of several peak HIV/STI organizations in Australia (ASHM, AFAO, ASHRA) and an Advisor to WHO.
Professor Danielle Mazza
Head Of Department, Department Of General Practice
Monash University
Equitable access to LARCs
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMBiography
Professor Danielle Mazza is the Head of the Department of General Practice at Monash University and Director of the NHMRC funded SPHERE Centre of Research excellence in women’s sexual and reproductive health in primary care. A nationally and internationally recognised leader in implementation research and knowledge translation in the general practice setting; she has made significant, sustained and ongoing contributions to advance general practice and primary health care in Australia in the field of women’s sexual and reproductive health.
Chairperson
Eva Gregory
Doctor
Auckland Sexual Health Service
Penny Kenchington
Nurse Practitioner
Queensland Health; Director, ASHM Board