🧵 Starting now: In the last session of #CDIC2023, Prof @PKelly_CBR introduces Feery Oration speaker, @WHO expert Dr @Kate_L_OBrien, who will discuss immunisation.
🧵 We're now in concurrent sessions at #CDIC2023, and we're live tweeting from Concurrent Session 2F, on 'Social and behavioural aspects of vaccination'. #PublicHealth
Dr @JessicaJKaufman from @MCRI_for_kids is now presenting to a packed room on 'Persuasive messaging’s effect on parents’ COVID-19 vaccine intentions for primary school children'. #CDIC2023
🧵 #CDIC2023: We now have a Q&A session with @healthgovau CMO Prof @PKelly_CBR in the Riverside Theatre, for anyone who wishes to ask Prof Kelly about the Australian CDC. #AusCDC
🧵 Hello from day 1 of the Communicable Diseases & Immunisation Conference 2023. The Opening Plenary, starting now, is titled 'Whole of society: future approach to infectious diseases prevention and control'. #CDIC2023
Joint Media Release from PHAA & @ama_media:
Free Rapid Antigen Tests (RATs) for all is a matter of equity bit.ly/3pQNFRT
The Australian Government must urgently increase supplies of Rapid Antigen Tests and ensure they are available to everyone for free, not just select groups, @_PHAA_ & @ama_media say
The RATs are a health product, not a typical consumer good, and the overwhelming demand for them has inflated their price beyond what many people can afford.
First presenter is Prof Fay Johnson (UTAS) who is explaining safer air for public health in Australia, and fire. How we use fire determines everything else. #AustPH2021
Just like the west of Nth America, we are getting more fires, means more air pollution, and fires in places that never used to burn, eg Tasmanian rainforests, Prof Johnson says. #AustPH2021
It's now time for Prof Tom Calma AO, whose roles include Chancellor of the University of Canberra and co-chair of @RecAustralia, who is delivering the Basil Hertzel Oration #AustPH2021
Prof Calma says the pandemic's ongoing lockdowns are causing challenging times. "This is hard", he says. It also shows much of Australia a reality the country has often avoided. Despite this, there are many lessons to be learned, and wins to be celebrated, he says. #AustPH2021
The Public Health sector is at risk of burn out. Lots of pressures over a long time. We still need to take time to reset, re-energise and refine, Prof Calma says. #AustPH2021