2021 Nelson Marlborough community health lecture

COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned and planning for the next time

Date: 19 April 2021
Time: 5.30pm for 6.00pm start
Venue: Suter Gallery, 208 Bridge Street, Nelson

Alternatively, join us in Blenheim where a livestream of the lecture will be aired at Wairau Hospital, Witherlea, Blenheim.

This lecture is the first in a series aiming to educate, inform and challenge the Nelson/Marlborough public on current health matters including an equity focus.

Keynote speaker

Associate Professor Tony Walls, Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Paediatrics, University of Otago Christchurch: COVID-19 vaccine development and the NZ COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy

• Board Member World Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases 2018 ongoing
• Member, COVID-19 Vaccine Technical Advisory Group - provides scientific review and evidence based recommendation on the use of COVID-19 vaccines in New Zealand to the Ministry of Health
• Member of the Scientific Review Panel for the New Zealand Paediatric Surveillance Unit
• NZ Ministry of Health Immunisation Handbook Advisory Group
• CDHB Immunisation Service Level Alliance, Lead Clinician for HPV vaccination programme
• NZ Ministry of Health National Committee for verification of elimination of measles - provides annual reports to the World Health Organisation
• Member Pharmac PTAC Immunisation Subcommittee - national advisory group on immunisations

Speakers

Dr Richard Everts, Infectious Disease Specialist and Medical Microbiologist, NMDHB: Ways to protect yourself from COVID-19 and other respiratory viruses, now and in the future

Richard is an Infectious Disease Specialist and Medical Microbiologist with Nelson Bays Primary Health and NMDHB.

• An expert clinical advisor for ACC on infection claims
• Supports antibiotic guidelines and stewardship, microbiology laboratory testing, and infection prevention and control with the World Health Organization and NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• Acute general medicine in NZ and Australia and runs a private internal medicine clinic in Nelson and Marlborough
• Main research interest is currently antibiotic pharmacokinetics
• Provides expert commentary on NZ Infection Prevention and Control Research Review

Dr Alex Browne, Emergency and Intensive Care Physician, NMDHB: Rationalising care in Nelson/Marlborough and decision tools in the outbreak earlier last year

Alex Browne is an intensive Care and Emergency physician at Nelson Hospital.

• He grew up in Nelson and lives in Redwood Valley with his wife and three sons
• Part of the national heads of department group for ICU that advised the Ministry of Health on the COVID-19 response
• Member of the New Zealand Committee for the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand
• Part of the Roopu Urutaa to advocate for Maori Health to minimise the impact of COVID-19 on Māori 
• On the Models of Care working Group that is advising the NMDHB on the rebuild of the hospital

Registration

Registrations are limited to 150 people in Nelson and 46 in Blenheim. Please register, through the link here.

Nelson location: Suter Gallery, 208 Bridge Street, Nelson

Blenheim location: Arthur Wicks Building, Wairau Hospital, Blenheim.  Please enter through the hospital main entrance.

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Virtual attendance via Zoom, please click the link below to join the webinar: