2026 COVID-19 Webinar
The Immunisation Coalition’s annual update on COVID-19 in Australia for GPs, Immunisation Nurses, Pharmacists, and other immunisation professionals.
Date: August 11, 2026, Time: 6:00pm to 7:00pm (AEST)
About the webinar
Webinar objective:
- This webinar covers key information about COVID-19 including COVID-19 variants, current disease burden, vaccination recommendations, vaccination rates, available vaccines and antiviral treatment options.
Learning outcomes:
- Review the latest SARS-COV 2 variant
- Review the latest epidemiology of COVID-19 Australia
- Review current vaccination recommendations and NIP eligibility criteria
- Review current safety data
- Review long COVID
- Review antiviral treatment
Presenters
Speaker: Professor Gary Grohmann
Gary Grohmann is a virologist and a former Director of Immunobiology at the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia (1997- 2015), responsible for vaccine testing and registration. He then worked for the WHO in Geneva consulting on various projects involving influenza, bio-containment, pandemic planning, regulatory frameworks, and influenza vaccine production in developing countries (2015-23). Prior to working for the TGA he worked for: the University of Sydney in the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences as Associate Professor working on public health and environmental issues where he also was engaged by the NSW EPA and the Auckland Regional council as an independent expert on a number of important landmark environmental court cases (1996-00); Australian Water technologies; CDC Atlanta; and Westmead Hospital. He is currently an independent consultant with Environmental Pathogens based in Canberra and a board member of the Immunisation coalition in Australia; his interests are in the areas of Virology, Vaccination and control of infectious diseases, pandemic planning, influenza, regulatory issues, environmental virology, electron microscopy and gastrointestinal viruses. He became a Fellow of the Australian Society for Microbiology in 1989 and is an adjunct professor at the University of Sydney.
Moderator: Dr Andrew Minton, PhD
Andrew is the CEO of the Immunisation Coalition and has worked in a number of disease areas in various medical and commercial roles.