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Abstracts 9: Building resilience for SRH in future threats - Syphilis in women and pregnancy: The struggle is not over

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Track 2
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
11:15 AM - 12:45 PM
Freshwater & Queenscliff

Speaker

Dr Clare Bradley
Senior Research Fellow, ATLAS Program Manager
Poche Centre For Indigenous Health, University Of Queensland

Sexually Transmissible Infection Screening In Antenatal Care For Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Peoples — First Results From The Atlas National Sentinel Surveillance Network

11:15 AM - 11:27 AM

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Biography

Dr Clare Bradley is the Program Manager for the ATLAS Network. She has been working in the health services research and surveillance sectors for 20 years. Clare has wide-ranging research interests, now focused on Indigenous health but also encompassing injury prevention and aged care research involving population-level linked datasets.
Ms Elenor Kerr
Epidemiologist
Health Protection NSW

A collaborative approach to addressing state-wide challenges for syphilis in pregnancy

11:25 AM - 11:37 AM

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Elenor is an epidemiologist focusing on sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses at the Communicable Diseases Branch at Health Protection NSW.
Dr Alison Chew
Masters Of Philosophy (Applied Epidemiology) Scholar
Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care

Maternal characteristics associated with the likelihood of adequate syphilis treatment in pregnancy in Australia, 2016 to 2021.

11:37 AM - 11:42 AM

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Biography

Alison is a Master of Applied Epidemiology (MAE) scholar with a placement within the Communicable Diseases, Epidemiology and Surveillance Section of the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. Previously Alison worked as a general practitioner in the Northern Territory and is interested in Indigenous health and communicable disease.
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Ms Rebecca Wigan
Program Coordinator / Research Nurse
Melbourne Sexual Health Centre

Risk-based syphilis screening in later pregnancy: is it actually happening?

11:42 AM - 11:54 AM

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Biography

Rebecca Wigan is the program coordinator of the NHMRC Partnership Grant for syphilis control. Within this role, she has been instrumental in the development and implementation of innovative projects that aim to improve syphilis testing, detection and management across antenatal, community and general practice settings.
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Dr Emma Sweeney
Senior Research Fellow
University Of Queensland Centre For Clinical Research

Syphilis in the sunshine state: two Treponema pallidum strains account for the majority of infections in Queensland.

11:54 AM - 12:06 PM

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Biography

Dr Emma Sweeney is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Queensland. She is a microbiologist whose research primarily focuses on molecular diagnostics and characterisation of sexually-transmitted infections, with a specific focus on Mycoplasma genitalium and syphilis.
Ms Priscilla Poga
Senior Research Officer
Papua New Guinea Institute Of Medical Research

Pregnant women’s knowledge of sexually transmitted infections and their impact on pregnancy outcomes in Papua New Guinea

12:06 PM - 12:18 PM

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Biography

From Papua New Guinea and working with Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research as a senior research officer for social and behavioral studies

Chairperson

Glen Hornby
Policy Officer
Department Of Health And Aged Care

Francesca Storey
Deputy Director
National Centre for Women's Health Research Aotearoa, Victoria University Of Wellington

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