BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//NONSGML WPForms//NONSGML Sugar Calendar Feeds v3.9.0//EN X-WR-CALNAME:4th Primary Care Infectious Diseases Meeting X-WR-CALDESC:Immunisation Coalition X-WR-TIMEZONE:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 DTSTART:20261003T160000 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 DTSTART:20261003T160000 TZNAME:AEDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:4th Primary Care Infectious Diseases Meeting DESCRIPTION:Immunisation For Health And Life - Hybrid Event\n\n\n\nPRELI MINARY PROGRAM\n\n\n\n\nRegister ONSITE\n\n\n\nRegister ONLINE\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: \;October 17\, 2026\, \;Time: \;9:00am to 4:30pm (AEDT)\n\n\n\nAbout\n\n\n\nThe Immunisation Coalition is deli ghted to announce the \;4th Primary Care Infectious Diseases meeting  \;on 17 October at the RACV City Club\, Melbourne.\n\n\n\nTheme:&nb sp\;Initiatives to lift vaccination rates across the ages.\n\n\n\nThis i s a hybrid event\, specifically designed for General Practitioners\, Nur se Immunisers and Pharmacists who are on the front line of vaccinating A ustralians against infectious diseases.\n\n\n\nOnsite attendance is limi ted to 100 delegates. The following seats have been allocated:\n\n\n\n20 seats for GPs\n\n\n\n20 seats for pharmacists\n\n\n\n60 seats for nurse s \n\n\n\nIf minimum numbers are not reached\, seats will be allocated t o one of the other professions.\n\n\n\nThis webinar will be RACGP accred ited for 6 CPD hours for attendees.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nID number: \;1721 940\n\n\n\nWelcome and Introduction\n\n\n\n\n9:00 amFrom the ChairDr Rod ney Pearce AM▼\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Dr Rodney Pearce AM\n\n\n\nDr Rodney Pearce AM is a country and city GP and Medical Officer of Health for the Eastern Health Authority (HA)\, Adelaide. Dr Pearce became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on Australia Day 2012. He received the award for his long-standing service to medicine as a General Practitioner\, t hrough contributions to national medical organisations and to education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n9:05 amChildhood Immunisation Schedule: Strategies to get back to 95% coverageDr Anita Sharma\, Priscilla Singh and Philippa Holla nd▼\n\nGeneral Practice initiatives\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Anita Sharma&n bsp\;is the practice principal of Platinum Medical Centre\, a medical ed ucator and an accredited supervisor for general practice registrars and medical students. \;She is co-author of RACGP Handbook of T2 D manag ement in Primary care and contributes towards writing CHECK programs for RACGP. \;She is a member of The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ Education Committee and the Diabetes National Faculty Specific Interest Group. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Q ueensland’s School of Clinical Medicine Primary Care Clinical Unit and serves on the editorial board for Medicine Today.Dr Anita Sharma \; is the practice principal of Platinum Medical Centre\, a medical educato r and an accredited supervisor for general practice registrars and medic al students. \;She is co-author of RACGP Handbook of T2 D management in Primary care and contributes towards writing CHECK programs for RACG P. \;She is a member of The Royal Australian College of General Prac titioners’ Education Committee and the Diabetes National Faculty Speci fic Interest Group. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Queens land’s School of Clinical Medicine Primary Care Clinical Unit and serv es on the editorial board for Medicine Today.\n\n\n\nDr Sharma serves on the advisory board for Reed Medical Education and develops education mo dules on chronic diseases like diabetes\, heart failure\, Chronic Kidney Disease\, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease\, obesity and osteoporo sis. Dr Sharma is a medical review officer and designated aviation medic al examiner for the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and Medical Review O fficer for Civil Aviation Society of Australia. She is a member of MDA N ational’s State Advisory Committee (Queensland) and active member of Q ueensland Medical Women’s Society (QMWS)\, Australian Federation of Me dical Women( AFMW) and Doctor’s Health Queensland ( DHQ). Maintaining high clinical standards\, contributing to articles and clinical \; g uidelines and teaching are her passions.\n\n\n\n2. Council led initiativ es\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPriscilla Singh \;is a Registered Midwife and Clin ical Nurse Consultant in Infection Prevention and Control. She holds a M aster of Infection Prevention and Control from Griffith University (comp leted in March 2024)\, alongside postgraduate qualifications in immunisa tion and a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment.\n\n\n\nPriscilla i s an Executive Committee Member of the Immunisation Nurse Special Intere st Group (INSIG) Inc. and actively immunises for her local council. She contributes to research governance through her service on several resear ch ethics committees\, including those at Monash University and St John of God Healthcare.\n\n\n\nDuring the COVID-19 pandemic\, Priscilla playe d a pivotal role in the South East Public Health Vaccination Program (20 21–2022) and was deployed to Fiji as the Infection Prevention and Cont rol lead during the outbreak.\n\n\n\nIn recognition of her outstanding c ontributions to public health\, Priscilla was awarded the \;Australa sian College for Infection Prevention and Control (ACIPC) 2024 Impact of the Year Award \;for her work in the community. In June 2025\, she was also awarded the prestigious \;ACIPC Certified Infection Control Professional – Expert (CICP-E) certification.\n\n\n\nPriscilla is cur rently undertaking a \;PhD\, further advancing her expertise and com mitment to evidence-based infection prevention and control.\n\n\n\n3. Co mmunity Health Centre initiatives\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMs Philippa Holland is the Immunisation Coordinator for the City of Melbourne Council since 201 5. She oversees all aspects of immunisation including school\, childhood \, flu and catch-up immunisation programs. Philippa has taken a keen int erest in catch-up immunisations for migrant and refugee children and the inequalities and barriers of the current system.\n\n\n\nShe has built a partnership with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute to co-desi gn the “Migration Immunisation Access (MIA) Project: determining the e xtent and impact of migrant children’s vaccination ‘catch-up’ sche dules”. This project won the GSK Immunisation Award in 2020. To date f indings of this project have been published in ‘Vaccine’ and ‘Jour nal of Paediatrics and Child Health’. She is also a tutor at the Austr alian College of Nursing where she helps mentor nurses and pharmacists t o become authorised nurse immunisers across all states.\n\n\n\nPrior to 2015 she has worked as an Immunisation Educator with the Australian Coll ege of Nursing. She has experience in clinical research and helped lead vaccine clinical trials for Nucleus Medical. Philippa has also worked as the lead for travel immunisation as a practice nurse at Goldman Sachs i n London.\n\n\n\n\n10:20Group Panel Discussion▼\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ n11:05 amMeningococcal ACWY is it time to set a target for 14-16 years o lds? Dr Andrew Baird▼\n\n\n\n\nDr Andrew Baird is a General Practition er in St Kilda\, Melbourne\, and a Medical Advisor with a medical defenc e organisation. \; He has a background in rural general practice and medical education.\n\n\n\n\n11:35 amHPV Addressing declining vaccinatio n rates and a focus on the catch-up programProf Julia Brotherton▼\n\n\ n\n\nProfessor Julia BROTHERTON \;(B Med (Hons)\, MPH (Hons)\, Grad Dip App Epi\, FAFPHM\, GACD\, PhD) \;is a Professor of Cancer Preven tion Policy and Implementation\, Melbourne School of Population and Glob al Health at The University of Melbourne and a Professorial Fellow at th e National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance. She \; is a public health physician and epidemiologist\, who has worked in HPV vaccination and cervical screening since 2004 \;and \;has an int ernational reputation in cervical cancer control\, having been appointed as a member of the WHO Director General’s Cervical Cancer Elimination Advisory Group and IARC’s Handbook on Cervical Cancer Screening Worki ng Group. \;Her research has informed evidence-based policy supporti ng the implementation and evaluation of HPV vaccination and HPV based ce rvical screening programs in Australia and globally. Her world first res earch on early impact of HPV vaccine on HPV prevalence and cervical pre- cancer supported national introductions of HPV vaccine\, with her ongoin g work contributing to the evidence which supported the WHO recommendati on to endorse a single dose HPV vaccine schedule. \;She holds an NHM RC Fellowship evaluating single dose HPV vaccination and co-leads two an nual HPV reports: Australia’s Annual Progress Report on Cervical Cance r Elimination and the National HPV surveillance report.\n\n\n\n\n12:05 p mPneumococcal disease: maximising opportunities across primary careDr An ita Muñoz and Lena Jiang▼\n\n\n\n\nDr Anita Muñoz worked as a Clinic al Editor and Clinical Advisor for 6 years with North Western Melbourne PHN through which a passion for health system improvement\, innovation\, sustainability\, and equity emerged. She sees general practice as the k ey to a rational health system that produces better outcomes for patient s and practitioners alike.Anita Muñoz is a GP in private practice in Me lbourne’s CBD and has a dedication to evidence-based medicine\, lifelo ng learning\, and promoting the role of general practice in the health o f patients\, communities and in public health more broadly.\n\n\n\nAnita has held advisory positions with Better Care Victoria and Safer Care Vi ctoria and has been a medical educator for over 9 years. She is particul arly preoccupied with the wellbeing and experience of general practice r egistrars\, and of securing a high-quality general practice workforce fo r the future.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLena Jiang is a pharmacist with over 19 yea rs of experience in community pharmacy and healthcare\, including more t han a decade in leadership roles. In her role as a Vaccination Services Pharmacist\, she supports the delivery and development of vaccination se rvices nationally\, including large-scale community\, corporate and aged care immunisation programs. Her work spans clinical governance\, pharma cist education and practical strategies to improve vaccination access an d uptake. Lena has a strong interest in preventive health and strengthen ing the role of pharmacists in primary care. \;\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\ n1:15 pmThe 2026 RSV and influenza season: reflection and focus's in 202 7Prof Nigel Crawford▼\n\n\n\n\nProf Nigel Crawford is a consultant gen eral paediatrician and Head of the Immunisation Service at the Royal Chi ldren’s Hospital Melbourne. He is Director of SAEFVIC\, Victoria’s v accine safety service based at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institu te\, and established the Melbourne Vaccine Education Centre. As Professo r in the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne\, Nige l’s research focuses on vaccine safety\, immunisation of special risk groups\, and emerging infections\, particularly those that may soon be v accine preventable. He has been a member of the Australian Technical Adv isory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) since 2014\, appointed as Chair from 2021 to 30 June 2025. Nigel joined the COVID-19 steering group in 2020\ , and previously chaired the meningococcal and special risks working gro ups as well as the COVID-19 vaccine safety and communication working gro up. He was also Australia’s representative on the WHO Global NITAG Net work steering committee from 2021 to 2025.\n\n\n\n\n2:00 pmCOVID-19: tar geting walk-ins\, consultation opportunities and aged care residentsDr A nita Muñoz and Haven Moushi▼\n\n\n\n\nDr Anita Muñoz worked as a Cli nical Editor and Clinical Advisor for 6 years with North Western Melbour ne PHN through which a passion for health system improvement\, innovatio n\, sustainability\, and equity emerged. She sees general practice as th e key to a rational health system that produces better outcomes for pati ents and practitioners alike.Anita Muñoz is a GP in private practice in Melbourne’s CBD and has a dedication to evidence-based medicine\, lif elong learning\, and promoting the role of general practice in the healt h of patients\, communities and in public health more broadly.\n\n\n\nAn ita has held advisory positions with Better Care Victoria and Safer Care Victoria and has been a medical educator for over 9 years. She is parti cularly preoccupied with the wellbeing and experience of general practic e registrars\, and of securing a high-quality general practice workforce for the future.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHaven Moushi is a community pharmacist a nd proprietor of two pharmacies in Victoria\, with over 10 years of expe rience as an accredited pharmacist immuniser. She is actively involved i n the Monash University Intern Training Program (ITP) vaccination progra m\, supporting the development of future pharmacists through practical i mmunisation training and mentorship\, ensuring they are confident and we ll-prepared to deliver vaccination services.\n\n\n\nHaven also has exten sive experience delivering off-site vaccination clinics\, including with in aged care facilities\, helping improve access to essential vaccines f or vulnerable populations and supporting broader public health initiativ es.\n\n\n\nAs a pharmacy owner\, she integrates immunisation services in to everyday practice\, fostering a culture of prevention and proactive h ealthcare within her team. She is committed to expanding the role of pha rmacists in primary care and advocating for increased accessibility to v accinations across diverse communities.\n\n\n\nHaven continues to contri bute to the profession through leadership\, practical experience\, and a strong dedication to advancing pharmacist-led immunisation services.\n\ n\n\n\n2:30 pmCommon threads across GP Practice and Pharmacy: working to gether to optimise efforts and resourcesDr Aliya Alladin and Haven Moush i ▼\n\n\n\n\nDr Aliya Alladin is a Brisbane-based General Practitioner with almost a decade of clinical experience and a steadfast commitment to preventative health. She practices in a comprehensive family general practice with a heavy focus on travel medicine\, including Yellow Fever and Q Fever immunisation protocols.\n\n\n\n​A passionate advocate for proactive\, opportunistic healthcare\, she is dedicated to reducing the community burden of vaccine-preventable diseases through evidence-based intervention and life-course immunisation strategies\, especially in vul nerable populations such as the elderly. She brings a practical\, “fro nt-line” understanding of the Australian immunisation landscape\, navi gating the complexities of National Immunisation Program (NIP) funding v ersus private\, non-funded vaccinations to ensure optimal patient protec tion.\n\n\n\n​Driven by a commitment to the future of healthcare\, she finds great fulfillment in supporting the development of the next gener ation of clinicians\, including both GP and non-GP specialists. She beli eves in fostering a collaborative culture where preventative advocacy is a shared priority. As a GP Moderator for the Immunisation Coalition Mas terclass\, she aims to inspire peers to become enthusiastic champions of vaccination\, ensuring that primary care remains at the heart of global public health efforts.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHaven Moushi is a community pharm acist and proprietor of two pharmacies in Victoria\, with over 10 years of experience as an accredited pharmacist immuniser. She is actively inv olved in the Monash University Intern Training Program (ITP) vaccination program\, supporting the development of future pharmacists through prac tical immunisation training and mentorship\, ensuring they are confident and well-prepared to deliver vaccination services.\n\n\n\nHaven also ha s extensive experience delivering off-site vaccination clinics\, includi ng within aged care facilities\, helping improve access to essential vac cines for vulnerable populations and supporting broader public health in itiatives.\n\n\n\nAs a pharmacy owner\, she integrates immunisation serv ices into everyday practice\, fostering a culture of prevention and proa ctive healthcare within her team. She is committed to expanding the role of pharmacists in primary care and advocating for increased accessibili ty to vaccinations across diverse communities.\n\n\n\nHaven continues to contribute to the profession through leadership\, practical experience\ , and a strong dedication to advancing pharmacist-led immunisation servi ces.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3:20 pmOpportunities across local health distr icts\, community immunisation centres\, hospital and specialist clinicsD r Anthea Katelaris▼\n\n\n\n\nDr Anthea Katelaris (BMed BA MD\, MSc(Dis t)\, MPhil(App Epi)\, FAFPHM) is a staff specialist public health physic ian at the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) Public He alth Unit\, on Bidjigal country. \;She has expertise in communicable disease control\, immunisation programs\, outbreak investigation\, surv eillance\, and emergency response.\n\n\n\nFor the last two years\, she h as developed and run VaxConnect\, an opportunistic patient vaccination p rogram across SESLHD.\n\n\n\nShe has previously worked in the NSW Minist ry of Health\, including as a Deputy Controller in the COVID-19 response \, and across other public health units in NSW. She also has experience working in the Top End\, Timor Leste\, and has consulted for the WHO in PNG in the WHO COVID-19 Incident Management Team.\n\n\n\nShe trained thr ough the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine (AFPHM) and at t he London School of Hygiene &\; Tropical Medicine\, and completed fie ld epidemiology training through the ANU Masters of Applied Epidemiology (MAE) program.\n\n\n\n\n\nClosing Comments\n\n\n\n\n4:05 pmFrom the Cha irDr Rodney Pearce AM▼\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Dr Rodney Pearce AM\n\n\n\nDr Rodney Pearce AM is a country and city GP and Medical Officer of Health for the Eastern Health Authority (HA)\, Adelaide. Dr Pearce became a Me mber of the Order of Australia (AM) on Australia Day 2012. He received t he award for his long-standing service to medicine as a General Practiti oner\, through contributions to national medical organisations and to ed ucation.\n\n\n\n\n4:30 pmCloseDr Rodney Pearce AM▼\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: D r Rodney Pearce AM\n\n\n\nDr Rodney Pearce AM is a country and city GP a nd Medical Officer of Health for the Eastern Health Authority (HA)\, Ade laide. Dr Pearce became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) on Austr alia Day 2012. He received the award for his long-standing service to me dicine as a General Practitioner\, through contributions to national med ical organisations and to education.\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsors URL;VALUE=URI:https://immunisationcoalition.org.au/events/4th-primary-ca re-infectious-diseases-meeting-pcidm/ UID:urn:uuid:615936ae-6c4a-47a8-9303-f8bee978b8db STATUS:CONFIRMED ORGANIZER: DTSTAMP:20261012T192856Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261017T090000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20261017T163000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR