Poster Tour 01: Testing in Action: Community, Clinical, and Collaborative Approaches
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| Thursday, August 7, 2025 |
| 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM |
| Posterboards 27-31 |
Speaker
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Welcome & Introduction
10:50 AM - 10:55 AMBiography
Mrs Julia Di Girolamo
Project officer
Liverpool Hospital
Miss Grace Burton-mckeich
Research Assistant
Unsw / Kirby Institute
“It’s not just running the test”: Operator experiences of implementing a decentralised hepatitis c point-of-care testing program in Australia
11:00 AM - 11:05 AMBiography
Grace Burton-McKeich is a research assistant at the Kirby Institute. She has an honours degree in Health Sciences from the University of Auckland. In her career she is driven to reduce negative outcomes caused by infectious diseases among vulnerable populations.
Mrs Mim O'Flynn
Kombi Clinic Nurse
Kombi Clinic
One step closer towards HCV elimination: Lessons from 25 high intensity point-of-care testing campaigns across 14 prisons in Queensland, Australia
11:05 AM - 11:10 AMBiography
Nurse Mim links homeless and incarcerated people to Hepatitis C care with Kombi Clinic. She has led testing campaigns across Queensland prisons where over 10,000 people now know their Hep C status. She gets to wear a fabulous Hawaiian shirt and drives around in a bright yellow Van called Ruby.
Ms Mikayla Napier
Strategy & Planning Manager
NSW Multicultural HIV & Hepatitis Service Service
‘Are You Living with Hepatitis B? Find out. Get tested.’ Multilingual Campaign
11:10 AM - 11:15 AMBiography
Mikayla Napier is the Strategy & Planning Manager at the NSW Multicultural HIV & Hepatitis Service. With over 5 years experience in health promotion, she leads strategic and community-driven initiatives addressing HIV, viral hepatitis, and sexual health in CALD communities across NSW. Her work focuses on culturally responsive, collaborative programs to improve health equity and inclusion for priority populations.
Ms Nicole Matthews
Research Coordinator
Burnet Institute
Finding the gap: Using notifications data to connect individuals to hepatitis C care
11:15 AM - 11:20 AMBiography
Nicole Matthews is the Research Coordinator for the Connect C project at Burnet Institute, working with health authorities and communities to improve hepatitis C notifications systems. She previously led the CHECCS project, integrating health data into the Victorian Surveillance system. Nicole is passionate about health design and community-driven change.
Chairperson
Jacqui Richmond
Nurse Educator
Burnet Institute