Concurrent Session 3C: Tabletops
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Friday, August 2, 2024 |
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
Waterfront 1 & 2 |
Speaker
VH2024 Conference
Welcome & Introduction
2:30 PM - 2:35 PMBiography
Ms Yew Khim Tan
CNS
NT Health
Supporting hepatitis B care in primary health in Central Australia
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Khim is the viral hepatitis nurse in Alice Springs. She has lived in Central Australia for the last ten years, and has worked in the viral hepatitis service since 2018.
Dr Rebecca Winter
Deputy Head Justice Health
Burnet Institute/St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne
“They shared a few stories you know…it makes it a bit more comfortable”: the importance of peers in engaging people for hepatitis C testing.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Rebecca is a Senior Research Fellow at the Burnet Institute and St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne. Her work is aimed at improving the health of people involved in the criminal justice system.
Mr Mark Belzer
Peer
Harm Reduction Victoria
“They shared a few stories you know…it makes it a bit more comfortable”: the importance of peers in engaging people for hepatitis C testing.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Mark is a Peer Mentor at Harm Reduction Victoria (HRVic) providing mobile outreach point-of-care hepatitis C testing at community corrections sites in collaboration with St Vincent’s Hospital and the Burnet Institute. With HRVic, Mark has held volunteer positions and provided drug user representation for service delivery consultations and resource development.
Ms Antoinette White
Mae Scholar
Australian National University
Sharing some learnings from “A Southeast Queensland evaluation of ATLAS Indigenous STI & BBV surveillance system”
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Antoinette White is a Palawa and Iningai woman currently living on Turrbal country, Meajin, Brisbane. She is an inaugural recipient of the Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services (ACCHS) Master of Philosophy in Applied Epidemiology (MAE) scholarship with a field placement at the Institute for Urban Indigenous Health.
A core component of the MAE program is an evaluation of a surveillance System as a project. For this project she evaluated the ATLAS Indigenous Primary Care Health Surveillance and Research Network (ATLAS) system with a focus on IUIH as a network member within this system.
Ms Issy Purcell
Senior Project Officer
ASHM Health
B Referred: Supporting clinicians to understand and utilise all hepatitis B care pathways.
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Isabelle is a Senior Project Officer with the Hepatitis B team at ASHM. Isabelle is passionate about equitable and safe access to care for all members of the community. Isabelle has a range of experience working in community health and health promotion including education, policy and advocacy and research.
Mrs Jenny Grant
Education Coordinator
Hepatitis SA
The tale of two cities: comparative strategies in hepatitis C testing
2:30 PM - 3:30 PMBiography
Jenny has worked in the blood borne virus area for over 20 years, and curreently works in the non-government sector at Hepatitis SA. Jenny is the Education Coordinator who with the Education Team facilitate workforce and community education sessions to a range of organisations including health, community, government and non-government.
Chairperson
Edan Campbell-O'Brien
Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Lead
ASHM Health