Shingles Webinar
This webinar provides viewers with an update regarding shingles epidemiology and current trends in vaccination rates.
Date: November 19, 2025, Time: 6:00pm to 7:00pm (AEDT)
About the Webinar
This is the last Immunisation Coalition webinar of the year and completes the previous 7 infectious diseases webinars.
Professor John Litt will provide an update on shingles epidemiology, revisit eligibility criteria including immunocompromised individuals and risk categories, disease burden and current trends in vaccination rates.
Please join us and celebrate the last webinar of the year!
Presenters
Speaker: A/Prof John Litt
A/Prof John Litt
Associate Professor John Litt is a retired academic GP and public health physician in the Discipline of General Practice at Flinders University and was the Deputy Chairman of the National Quality Committee of the RACGP (from 2000-2018).
His major clinical and research interests are in prevention and its implementation. John has over 130 refereed publications (journal articles, book and book chapters). He conducted the first Australian National Influenza and Pneumococcal Survey in older adults in 1998 and the first Australian Zoster Attitudes and Beliefs Survey in older persons and GPs in 2009. More recently he has helped to develop an online COVID Risk Calculator (CoRiCal), which assists the patient decision-making process for COVID vaccination.
John has been a member of several national committees, consortia, and Scientific Advisory Committees including NHMRC, ATAGI, Cancer Australia and NCIRS. He was one of the inaugural directors of the ISG and is currently a member of the Immunisation Coalition’s Scientific Advisory Committee.
Moderator: Dr Andrew Minton, PHD
Andrew Minton, PHD
Andrew brings a wealth of experience in medical education, medical information, and pharmaceutical industry expertise across various disease areas. Andrew is, in part, responsible for developing both accredited and non-accredited infectious disease education programs for healthcare professionals.