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The committee are pleased to announce the ON DEMAND Invited Speaker Sessions are now available.
The ON DEMAND Sessions will be available to access from the start of the conference, Sunday 30 May 2021. The pre-recorded presentations are available in the On Demand section of the Virtual Portal and can be watched at your leisure. Why not design your own program and add them to your calendar!
This session will demonstrate the integral role of nurses in the provision of viral hepatitis care for key priority groups.
Viral hepatitis care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the Northern Territory
Speaker: Matthew Maddison, Royal Darwin Hospital, NT
‘Everything is Free’ by the Midland Community Hep C Service
Speakers: Nancy Carey, Waikato District Health Board, NZ & Jo DoLisle, HealthShare Ltd., NZ
Homelessness, Hepatitis C and health inequality
Speaker: Karyn Gellie, Bolton Clarke, VIC
Progress towards HCV elimination in Australia: should we be worried?
Speaker: Greg Dore, The Kirby Institute UNSW Sydney, NSW
Adapting the workforce as we strive for elimination
Speaker: Jacqui Richmond, The Burnet Institute, VIC
Where are we now and what are the challenges for the future – community awareness and mobilisation
Speaker: Carrie Fowlie, Hepatitis Australia, ACT
Elimination agenda or epidemic management, our choice
Speaker: Michael West, Department of Health and Human Services, VIC
This session will explore innovative Peer Led Models of Care within Urban and Regional Setting
Care in your community – the power of peers
Speaker: Leanne Myers, Peer Based Harm Reduction WA
Providing In reach POCT to Methadone dosing centres
Speaker: Tegan Nuckey, QuIHN, QLD
Individual-based models to simulate treatment scenarios for mitigating HCV in the prison setting
Speaker: Neil Arvin Bretana, Denmark
Integrating all modalities of hepatitis C testing into a comprehensive model for the NSW correctional system
Speaker: Marian Bloomfield, Justice Health and Forensic Mental Health, NSW
Interview with Anne Craigie
Speakers: Sam White, Hepatitis Queensland, QLD & Anne Craigie, St Vincent’s Hospital, VIC
Successes and challenges of implementing HCV point-of-care antibody testing, point-of-care HCV RNA testing, and dried blood spot testing in Australia – perspectives across diverse service settings
Implementation of dried blood spot (DBS) testing in practice – lessons learned from the NSW DBS Pilot
Speaker: Philip Cunningham, St Vincent’s Hospital, NSW
Implementing point-of-care HCV RNA testing in community-based needle and syringe program services: Successes and challenge
Speaker: Amanda Kvassay, QuIHN, QLD
Point-of-care HCV RNA testing in reception prisons
Speaker: Yumi Sheehan, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, NSW
Engaging the community in testing and treatment through point-of-care HCV RNA testing: Perspectives from a community health worker
Speaker: Tony McNaughton, NUAA, NSW
Successes and challenges of point-of-care HCV RNA testing in the Melbourne Medical Supervised Injecting Centre
Speaker: Michael Macisaac, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne, VIC
Understanding how data linkage has been used across different contexts and settings to assess progress in key indicators for hepatitis B and C elimination, and highlight future approaches as progress toward strategic goals continues.
Hepatitis C treatment progress and impacts in NSW: insights from data linkage
Speaker: Maryam Alavi, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, NSW
Elimination of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B in Queensland: achievements and gaps
Speaker: Stephen Lambert, The University of Queensland, QLD
Using linkage to assess the cascade of care for hepatitis B in NT
Speaker: Kelly Hosking, Menzies School of Health Research, NT
This session will explore how to develop health promotion messaging and campaigns, using existing tools including incorporating co- design methods.
Effective health promotion targeting diverse populations
Speaker: Grace Hogan, Hepatitis Australia, ACT
Co-design in health promotion
Speaker: Charles Henderson, NUAA, NSW
Connecting the dots across multiple platforms
Speaker: Lana Richardson, Hepatitis Queensland, QLD
CORRIDORS OF CONTROL – Providing prisoner programs in Victoria
Speaker: Neylan Aykut, LiverWELL Limited, VIC
Overview of HCC diagnosis, prevention, screening in community, treatment
Speaker: Jess Howell, The Burnet Institute, VIC
Engagement and management of people in HCC care, timeliness of surveillance and referral
Speaker: Megan Collins, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, WA
HCC in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
Speaker: Alison Hempenstall, Torres And Cape Hospital And Health Service, QLD
The Western Pacific presents the highest estimates of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) prevalence globally. Despite early gains achieved in some national immunisation programs of the birth HBV dose, around 115 million people are still living with chronic hepatitis B across the region. Without treatment, up to a quarter of these individuals will die from cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma.
Addressing this level of morbidity and mortality requires leadership, commitment, know-how and a systems approach to hepatitis B clinical and response management. Amidst a global pandemic, building such programs at scale can seem impossible. So, where do we start in constructing the care cascade? Where do we find traction and resources to implement strategies? What are the priority areas for establishing services across the testing, treatment and adherence continuum? Where is focus placed to promote a balanced hepatitis B cascade of care? How do we measure success and failure in access?
This session will focus on recent achievements gained within Pacific Island Countries in development and implementation of hepatitis B responses. Bringing together policy makers, health workers and people with hepatitis B, it will highlight the challenges and talk through the change and innovation required for integrated HBV programming in Pacific health systems.
Understanding the Challenge of HBV in the Pacific & Building Support for National Response
Speaker: Polin Chan, WHO Western Pacific Regional Office
Triple Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission – The Keystone of the Cascade
Speaker: Nicole Allard, WHO Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis, VIC
Pilot to Population – Sustainable Scaling of HBV Services in Kiribati
Speaker: Rosemary Tekoaua, Kiribati Ministry of Health
Harnessing Private Partnerships for HBV Care in PNG
Speaker: Sue Huntley, Hepatitis B Free
Building A National Response for HBV in Solomon Islands
Speaker: Jackson Rakei, Solomon Islands Ministry of Health
Closing the Cascade
Speaker: Benjamin Cowie, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity
TBC
Speaker: Jess Howell, Burnet Institute, VIC
Assessing the Impact of the EC Nurse-Led Model of Care on Hepatitis C (HCV) Testing Coverage in a Network of High Caseload Primary Care Clinics
Speaker: Chloe Layton, Burnet Institute, VIC
Effectiveness of a community outreach program to improve access to FibroScan® for clients with chronic Hepatitis B
Speaker: Jo Durham, Queensland University, QLD
Regional Clinical Development Project (The Hep C Hunter)
Speaker: Jacqueline Del Bravo, Hepatitis WA
Community Outreach Nurse Project – Why Everyone Still Needs a Nurse
Speaker: Jeannette Tibbs, Hepatitis Queensland, QLD
Medical Chart Reminders
Speaker: Mamta Jain, UT South Western, United States
Provider Care Coordination
Speaker: Matthew Hickman, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Patient Navigation
Speaker: Sean Falade – Nwulie, Johns Hopkins Medicine, United States
Engaging GP’s in treating Hepatitis C in Western Victoria
Speaker: Amanda Wade, Barwon Health, VIC
Eliminate Hepatitis C Project
Speaker: Deisha Price, Aboriginal Health Council of Western Australia, WA
Strengthening workforce capacity to increase hepatitis c testing and treatment among urban Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People
Speaker: Linda Selvey, The University of Queensland, QLD
Consumer influence on LiverWELL App enhancements
Speaker: Isabelle Purcell, LiverWELL, VIC
HepLOGIC – Hepatitis and liver cancer outcomes in general practice: an intervention collaboration
Speaker: Nicole Allard, VIDRL, Doherty Institute, VIC
Models of hepatitis B care in remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory
Speaker: Kelly Hosking, Menzies School of Health Research, NT