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This online symposium (COVID and WORK - 23 February 2023) has been recorded. If you would like to view the recordings, please see below.

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Presentations

Session 1

Hayley Wolters – Working with COVID - a lived experience

Mona Jeffreys – Long COVID and the (in)ability to work

David Hood – What we know about exposures and spread from public data

Freya Sawbridge – Long COVID Support Aotearoa


Session 2

Paula Lorgelly – Quantifying the impact of long COVID on livelihoods and the broader economy

Esther Woodbury – Disability, human rights, and employment (work in a time of COVID)

Scout Barbour-Evans – Earning, learning, volunteering and caring: the many faces of work

Dawn Duncan – Rethinking employment and work - what works for all?


Session 3

Shelly Sydney – Airways NZ - managing and communicating risk

Catherine Epps – Worksafe perspective

Paul Jarvie – Lessons from COVID: EMA perspective

Sarah Dalton – COVID and work - a union view

Cathy Stephenson – MSD perspective

Dr Nick Loveridge-Easther – Long COVID - a rural perspective


Session 4

Kate Duder – New online long COVID support tool and an employer's perspective

Paul Vroegop – Brain fog and pain

Sarah Rhodes – POTS: Impact and management


Session 5

Tamara Devcich – Pasfika focused small business response

Fy Dunford – The multidisciplinary long COVID clinic for staff: Te Whatu Ora Taranaki

Rachael Grady – Caring for colleagues: Practical interventions in long COVID

Dr Nicola Emslie – Supporting health care workers with long COVID

Ben Teusse – Successful return to work programming for long COVID: Employer tips for success

Richard Klipin – The role of private insurers. The art of what's possible...


Session 6

Leah Hackney – Te Whatu Ora Waitaha case study

Dominic Kelly – Ventilation, air purification, CO2 monitoring and mask-wearing at Hashigo Zake

Dr Stuart Ekdahl – COVID-19 safety pledge


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