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X-WR-CALNAME:2026 COVID-19 Webinar
X-WR-CALDESC:Immunisation Coalition
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SUMMARY:2026 COVID-19 Webinar
DESCRIPTION:The Immunisation Coalition’s annual update on COVID-19 in 
 Australia for GPs\, Immunisation Nurses\, Pharmacists\, and other immuni
 sation professionals.\n\n\n\n\nRegister ONLINE\n\n\n\nCOVID-19 Guide\n\n
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate:&nbsp\;August 11\, 2026\,&nbsp\;Time:&nbsp\;6
 :00pm to 7:00pm (AEST)\n\n\n\nAbout the webinar\n\n\n\nWebinar objective
 :\n\n\n\n\nThis webinar covers key information about COVID-19 including 
 COVID-19 variants\, current disease burden\, vaccination recommendations
 \, vaccination rates\, available vaccines and antiviral treatment option
 s.\n\n\n\n\nLearning outcomes:\n\n\n\n\nReview the latest SARS-COV 2 var
 iant\n\n\n\nReview the latest epidemiology of COVID-19 Australia\n\n\n\n
 Review current vaccination recommendations and NIP eligibility&nbsp\;cri
 teria\n\n\n\nReview current safety data\n\n\n\nReview long COVID\n\n\n\n
 Review antiviral treatment\n\n\n\n\nThis event is not accredited with RA
 CGP or ACRRM – no CPD hours will be issued for attendance.\n\n\n\nPres
 enters\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Professor Gary Grohmann▼\n\n\n\n\nGary Groh
 mann is a virologist and a former Director of Immunobiology at the Thera
 peutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia (1997- 2015)\, responsibl
 e for vaccine testing and registration. He then worked for the WHO in Ge
 neva consulting on various projects involving influenza\, bio-containmen
 t\, pandemic planning\, regulatory frameworks\, and influenza vaccine pr
 oduction in developing countries (2015-23). Prior to working for the TGA
  he worked for: the University of Sydney in the Faculty of Veterinary Sc
 iences as Associate Professor working on public health and environmental
  issues where he also was engaged by the NSW EPA and the Auckland Region
 al council as an independent expert on a number of important landmark en
 vironmental court cases (1996-00)\; Australian Water technologies\; CDC 
 Atlanta\; and Westmead Hospital.&nbsp\; He is currently an independent c
 onsultant with Environmental Pathogens based in Canberra and a board mem
 ber of the Immunisation coalition in Australia\; his interests are in th
 e areas of Virology\, Vaccination and control of infectious diseases\, p
 andemic planning\, influenza\, regulatory issues\, environmental virolog
 y\, electron microscopy and gastrointestinal viruses. He became a Fellow
  of the Australian Society for Microbiology in 1989 and is an adjunct pr
 ofessor at the University of Sydney.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator: Dr Andrew M
 inton\, PhD▼\n\n\n\n\nAndrew is the CEO of the&nbsp\;Immunisation Coal
 ition and has worked in a number&nbsp\;of disease areas in various medic
 al and commercial roles.
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