🧵 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. @PKelly_CBR @WHO @Kate_L_OBrien @WHOWPRO @healthgovau @WHO_Europe Dr O'Brien discusses vaccination coverage for various vaccines over time, incl. during the COVID-19 pandemic. #CDIC2023

🧵 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 @healthgovau @PKelly_CBR @BizEventsPerth @terryslevin @tarunw @HelenSMarshall @abcperth @SBSNews @theage @Deakin's Professor Catherine Bennett asks Prof @PKelly_CBR about the level of independence, & funding of the #AusCDC. #CDIC2023

🧵 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 @BizEventsPerth @terryslevin @tarunw @HelenSMarshall @abcperth @healthgovau @_PHAA_WA Sandra Harben is now giving the Welcome to Country. We're on Whadjuk Noongar land today. #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

We're about to start our live session, 'Planetary and Climate Health' with experts from @UTAS_ @UTAS_MPH, @ANUPopHealth @scienceANU and @DeakinHealth @Deakin. We'll live tweet #AustPH2021 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

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

Bardi woman Prof Pat Dudgeon gets our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social and Emotional Wellbeing session underway. Must acknowledge colonisation and the strength and resilience of Indigenous peoples, she tells #AustPH2021 Suicide is second leading cause of death of Indigenous men, and 7th leading cause for Indigenous women, Prof Dudgeon says. Institutionalised racism and lack of culturally-appropriate services.

Thank you @ACTHealth @RachelSS_MLA on your address, and outlining some of the responses to health challenges in the ACT which linger, despite the COVID19 pandemic. #AustPH2021. Thank you @takeshi_kasai @WHOWPRO regional Director for joining #AustPH2021. His regional office features 600 staff, connecting countries to enable constant sharing of information and experience to COVID19, testing and contact tracing, PPE, oxygen concentrators, vaccines.

PHAA President Prof Tarun Weeramanthri @tarunw gets our #AustPH2021 underway. We'll soon be joined by @WHOWPRO's @takeshi_kasai,
ACT Minister for Health @RachelSS_MLA @ACTHealth, Prof @AlisonRitter1
and Prof Simon Lenton of @NDRIau. Program is here: austph2021.com/program @tarunw @WHOWPRO @takeshi_kasai @RachelSS_MLA @ACTHealth @AlisonRitter1 @NDRIau @PHAA_SYPPH @_PHAA_WA @PHAAQldbranch @PHAA_Women @PHAA_IntHlth @PhaaDei @PHAA_FANSIG @PHAA_NSW @PHAA_Eco @terryslevin Read the @anzjph op-ed, Does Australia need a Centre for Disease Control? A perennial question now needing an answer, here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…
#AustPH2021