Sydney ID Distinguished Lecture Series: JEV - an update for Australian clinicians

This webinar is was held on Thursday, 17 March: 7:00pm-8:15pm (AEDT)
Catchup on this webinar where Sydney ID, the Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases (ASID) and Australian and New Zealand Association of Neurologists (ANZAN), welcomed Professor Tom Solomon who presented on "30 years working on Japanese encephalitis".
About the speakers:
Professor Solomon is a global authority on JEV and will draw on his own experience working in Vietnam and that of his networks to critically evaluate the status of our understanding of JEV disease.
A/Prof Cameron Webb has over 25 years experience in mosquito and mosquito-borne disease research and management through work with NSW Health Pathology and University of Sydney. Cameron provides advice to local, state, and federal government agencies on mosquito control and surveillance programs as well as public health interventions to reduce the pest and public health threats to the community.
A/Prof Deborah Friedman has been with the Victorian Department of Health since 2020. She is the new Deputy Chief Health Officer in Communicable Diseases. Previously she was a Deputy Chief Health Officer in the COVID response and the Medical Director of the Infection Prevention Control and Response (IPCAR) Team. She is also an infectious diseases specialist at Barwon Health in Geelong and an Associate Professor at Deakin University.
Professor Kristine Macartney is the Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS), a paediatric infectious disease consultant at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and a Professor in the Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney. Her research interests include all aspects of vaccine preventable disease research, particularly policy development, vaccine safety and prevention of viral diseases.