Public Health and Vaccination Specialist, views are my own
Melbourne, Victoria
Joined September 2011
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Our expertise, impact and actual capability to eliminate cervical cancer has been recognised and supported by the Quad’s Cancer Moonshot program - enabling more women in our region to avoid getting this very preventable cancer!
The Quad Cancer Moonshot will double our capacity to eliminate cervical cancer in the Indopacific @dfat @minderoo @DaffodilCentre @KirbyInstitute @FamPlanningAU @uicc @UNITAID @ausglobalhealth @AmbGlobalHealth
whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
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The EPICC team convenes with donor colleagues from @dfat to progress our cervical cancer elimination work in the Indopacific @DaffodilCentre @KirbyInstitute @FamPlanningAU
Please help me spread the message about the fabulous option now available for cervical screening!
More than a quarter of the people seeking cervical screening are now opting to self-collect. ABC speaks to Melbourne research assistant Mikayla Wolfe
abc.net.au/news/2024-03-04/s…
Four fabulous women doing very fabulous work!
The EPICC team were honoured to meet with Caroline Kennedy from @USEmbAustralia to discuss work in cervical cancer elimination and the new major Australian government program, supported by the @minderoo Foundation, and EPICC. @DrDebBateson @SavilleMarion @Karen_Canfell
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Victorian Premier @JacintaAllanMP and Health Minister, @MaryAnneThomas getting behind the cervical screening self-collection message at our recent event at @VicParliament. How wonderful to have so many MPs ready and willing to support this great new option.
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Victoria now has 580 fabulous nurse cervical screening providers, and a team from ACPCC fielded lots of great questions on self-collection at @CancerVic today as part of their nurse cervical screening provider professional development day.
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While we are experiencing an uptick in COVID keep yourself updated with the latest info by following @VicGovDH – at Victoria, Australia
COVID conditions are changing. Which means now is the time to be extra careful.
If you’re with someone who’s elderly, disabled or has an underlying medical condition here's some tips: go.vic.gov.au/3FHKvXG
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ALT 1/4 A series of 4 illustrated tiles describing ways to protect against COVID. Text reads: COVID conditions are changing.
ALT 2/4 Text reads: Wear a mask. Illustration of a close up face wearing a protective mask.
ALT 3/4 Text reads: Test before visiting. Illustration of a rapid antigen test showing a negative result.
ALT 4/4 Text reads: Stay home if you have symptoms. Illustration of a house.
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JUST PUBLISHED: Enshrining a First Nations Voice to Australian Parliament will advance global health equity.
Important comment published this morning in the @LancetGH, co-authored by a group of leading Indigenous & Global Health researchers & advocates.
thelancet.com/journals/langl…
A very welcome public health measure @Mark_Butler_MP @gedkearney
One in three people will get shingles in their lifetime. Now there’s a free vaccine smh.com.au/politics/federal/…
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A wonderful day for women in Vanuatu: the Government launching its cervical cancer elimination program, with crucial support from @minderoo @c4_cre @KirbyInstitute @DaffodilCentre
@CepheidNews @ACPCC_
If you’re in Sydney on Thursday 12th October, I’d love to see you at this lovely evening event - face to face!
🌟 Join @AusIDNetwork and @ACPCC_ for a night with guests from the C4 group and Timor-Leste as they discuss how we can eliminate #cervicalcancer in Timor-Leste.
bit.ly/ECC-Timor-Leste
@DaffodilCentre
🗓️ Thursday, October 12
🕕 6pm
📍 The Hub, 120b Underwood Street, Paddington
The queues to get into the Fitzroy Pool are back, and we haven’t even hit summer yet. This has been going on for a couple of years now. What’s the problem/solution @YarraCouncil @HerschelLandes1 @stephenjolly99
Please join us!
HPV vaccination and cervical cancer control in Thailand and Bangladesh! Join us for the next SUCCESS ECHO collaboration Wednesday 23rd August. Register at [email protected].
bitly.ws/SiKs
@DaffodilCentre @ausglobalhealth
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‘It’s aerosol, stupid’: the professor who challenged medical chiefs afr.com/politics/federal/it-…
Very happy to have been accepted as a member of the Sax Institute @acpcc_
We welcome the Australian Centre for the Prevention of Cervical Cancer @ACPCC_ as a new Sax Institute Member and A/Prof Misha Coleman @MishaColeman as its representative. Interested in Sax Institute membership? See how to become a Member here: saxinstitute.org.au/about-us…
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For more info on the “DIY” cervical screening option, check out:
ACPCC.org.AU/screening/
And thank you so much @VictorianCHO for your support of this innovation in women’s health @VicGovDH @VICStogether @CancerVic @VACCHO_org
