🎗️ ASI Public Event | Online Fireside Chat | Vaccines and boosters - all your questions answered!

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12:00pm (Syd/Mel)

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Online

Speakers

ASI Fireside Chat:
Vaccines and boosters - all your questions answered! 

Optimising COVID vaccine uptake: what are our challenges around boosters and kids?

A/Prof Margie Danchin MBBS PhD FRACP
Group Leader, Vaccine Uptake, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Paediatrician, Department of General Medicine, The Royal Children's Hospital
Associate Professor and David Bickart Clinician Scientist Fellow, Department of Paediatrics and School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
Director Clinician Scientist pathways, The University of Melbourne 
Chair, Collaboration on Social Science and Immunisation (COSSI)
Online profile | vaxfacts.org.au

Margie is a consultant paediatrician at the Royal Childrens Hospital and Clinician Scientist, University of Melbourne, and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI). As leader of the Vaccine Uptake Group, MCRI, her research focuses on vaccine confidence and uptake, particularly amongst high risk-groups and in low and middle-income countries, and on effective risk communication. In Australia, she is the chair of the Collaboration on Social Science in Immunisation (COSSI) Group, chair of the Social Science Advisory Board and a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, NCIRS and is an expert advisor to ATAGI. She is also committed to efforts to improve vaccine confidence and uptake in the Western Pacific Region, and globally, and is on the steering committee for the Australian Regional Immunisation Alliance (ARIA) and the Australian Expert Technical Assistance Program for Regional COVID-19 Vaccine Access: Policy, Planning and Implementation (AETAP-PPI) Advisory Board. Margie works closely with the media, is co-host of the RCH Kids Health Info podcast and is passionate about effective science communication. As Director of Clinician Scientist Pathways within the Melbourne Medical School (MMS), she is an associate director of the MACH-Track, founded the MMS Women Clinicians in Academic Leadership (WCAL) group and is passionate about instilling belief and ensuring women reach their leadership potential.

Moderator / Chair

Dr Kylie Shaddock (nee Webster)
B. Sc (Hon), PhD
Lecturer, School of Medical Sciences
Faculty of Medicine and Health
University of Sydney
Online profile

Dr Shaddock (nee Webster) is an academic within the Discipline of Infectious Diseases and Immunology and the Education Innovation Theme of the School of Medical Sciences within the Faculty of Medicine and Health. She obtained a BSc (with Honours) from UNSW Sydney and a PhD in genetics and immunology from the University of Melbourne in 2005 for research conducted at the Walter & Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research.
She then continued her research in immunological tolerance and autoimmunity at the Garvan Institute in Sydney, first as a postdoctoral researcher and later as a Group Leader and Conjoint Senior Lecturer with UNSW Sydney. In 2019 she took a position as a Research Project Manager to coordinate a clinical study on autoimmune disease at Liverpool Hospital. In 2020 Dr Shaddock was appointed as a teaching academic at the University of Sydney where she now coordinates the postgraduate units ‘Clinical Immunology and Immunotherapy’ and 'Infection and Immunity Capstone', along with the undergraduate unit 'Molecular and Cellullar Immunology'. 
Kylie has recently developed novel approaches to the teaching of Immunology to university students and was the recipient of the Best Presentation Award at the 2022 Annual Meeting of the ASI Education Special Interest Group.

 

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ASI Online Fireside Chat | Vaccines and boosters - all your questions answered! 

Optimising COVID vaccine uptake: what are our challenges around boosters and kids?

A free Q&A session, tailored to the family and friends of ASI members and the general public who simply want accurate answers.
It's confusing when there are so many mixed messages out there.

Come along to our Fireside Chats; a free Q&A session where you get your questions answered, based on science.

When is it?

Thursday 7th April (ONLINE) at 12pm VIC/NSW time.  
Registrations close on Tuesday 5th April at 23:59:00 AEST.

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Ask an Immunologist

Ask an Immunologist your question so YOU can be informed, and then share accurate info with your loved ones.
You might have had a burning question for a long time, and now is your opportunity to Ask an Immunologist directly!

✅ Step 1) Register for the event now using the green button.  Receive Zoom details the morning of the event.
✅ Step 2) Type your question in the Q&A box in Zoom, or simply just listen in.
✅ Step 3) Our experts will answer your question live.

Alternatively, you can email us your question ahead of time to jump the queue!

Email us your question now

Keen to do some background reading?

You may wish to brush up on your knowledge and bring your questions to ask Margie on April 7th at 12pm.
 

Check out Margie Danchin on vaxFACTS.org.au and come along with your questions!

vaxFACTS.org.au

Don't have a question right now?

No problems! Register anyway and feel free to just listen in. 

Register now for this free event

Don't delay - register now to receive the Zoom meeting details - and finally get accurate answers.
Registrations close on April 5th 2022 at 23:59:00 AEDT. 
All registrants will be emailed the Zoom details on April 7th 2022 in the morning, so look out for an email in your inbox!

Previous Fireside Chats are now viewable on demand

Don't forget to check out our previous chats here.