Events
Epidemiology Chapter Meeting 2010
Scientific Program
Where: Gallery 1 and 2, Gold Coast International Hotel, Surfers Paradise, Queensland
When: Thursday 1 July – Saturday 3 July 2010
Thursday 1 July 2010
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 0900 - 1000 | Nigel French | Controlling enteric zoonoses |
| 1000 - 1030 | Morning tea | |
| 1030 - 1050 | Barb Moloney | H1N1 reverse zoonosis in a NSW piggery |
| 1050 - 1110 | Phan Minh | Human cases and poultry outbreaks of HPAI in Vietnam |
| 1110 - 1130 | tom Rawdon | Not in my backyard --- risk behaviours in backyard poultry keepers |
| 1130 - 1210 | Archie Clements | Spatial epidemiological approaches to surveillance |
| 1210 - 1230 | Peter Massey | Feral pig hunting and brucellosis |
| 1230 - 1330 | Lunch | |
| 1330 - 1350 | David Jordan | A survey of Australian veterinarians for MRSA |
| 1350 - 1420 | Jane Heller | MRSA in pet dogs: is risk assessment the answer? |
| 1420 - 1500 | Anou Dreyfus | Sampling bias in leptospirosis seroprevalence estimates |
| 1500 - 1530 | Afternoon tea | |
| 1530 - 1630 | Paul White | VTEC surveillance in animals --- can we connect the dots? |
Friday 2nd July
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 0830 - 0930 | Rupert Woods | Wildlife disease in Australia |
| 0930 - 1000 | Rupert Woods | Wildlife diseases: an emerging field |
| 1000 - 1030 | Morning Tea | |
| 1030 - 1110 | Michael Ward | Avian influenza in Romanian wild birds |
| 1110 - 1130 | Lee Skerratt | Diseases affecting biodiversity |
| 1130 - 1150 | Hume Field | Henipaviruses: a world and Australian situation |
| 1150 - 1210 | Richard Whittington | Disease spread through aquatic ecosystems |
| 1210 - 1230 | Hamish McCallum | Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease |
| 1230 - 1330 | Lunch | |
| 1330 - 1350 | Dan Tompkins | The ecological complexity of wildlife disease management |
| 1350 - 1410 | Brendan Cowled | Wildlife and disease dynamics: feral pig management |
| 1410 - 1420 | Rupert Woods | Decision making in wildlife disease investigation |
| 1420 - 1440 | Jonathan Happold | Animal disease reporting, investigating and data management |
| 1440 - 1500 | David McLelland | Wildlife health monitoring |
| 1500 - 1530 | Afternoon tea | |
| 1530 - 1550 | TBA | Perspectives on retroviruses of koalas |
| 1550 - 1730 | Peter Caley | Disease modelling: transmission coefficients, possums and TB |
| 1550 - 1830 | College Annual General Meeting |
Saturday 3rd July
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 0830 - 0910 | Mark Stevenson | Counting sheep - tools to enhance the understanding of sampling theory |
| 0910 - 1000 | Simon Reid | Utility of data from cross-sectional serological surveys |
| 1000 - 1030 | Morning Tea | |
| 1030 - 1050 | Jan Lievaart | Field epidemiology and biosecurity |
| 1050 - 1100 | Cord Heuer | Is Campylobacter foetus venerealis endemic in New Zealand? |
| 1100 - 1150 | David Pitt | Screw worm fly risk assessment |
| 1150 - 1210 | Lincoln Broad | Biosecurity risks when importing canine semen into New Zealand |
| 1210 - 1230 | Tom Rawdon | Modelling infectious disease in New Zealand's poultry industry |
| 1230 - 1330 | Lunch | |
| 1330 - 1410 | Chapter annual general meeting | |
| 1410 - 1420 | Caleb King | Passive sentinel surveillance can work |
| 1420 - 1500 | TBA | Studies of congenital chondrodystrophy in Australian beef herds |
| 1500 - 1530 | Afternoon Tea | |
| 1530 - 1610 | Lesley Stringer | Field efficacy of Silirum vaccine for the control of JD in young deer |
| 1610 - 1630 | Jonathan Happold | A campaign to eradicate bovine babesiosis from New Caledonia |
| 1630 - 1710 | Chris Morley | Benign theileriosis --- a New Zealand perspective |