ECC2024 Speakers & Chairs

This represents a selection of our chairs and speakers. The comprehensive collection of biographies will be available via the conference app.

Chairs

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Professor Karen Canfell AC

Prof Karen Canfell was awarded with the Companion of the Order of Australia in the King’s Birthday Honours on 10 June 2024 for eminent service to medicine as an…
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Professor Marion Saville AM

Professor Marion Saville is a New Zealand medical graduate who trained in Anatomic Pathology at Northwestern University in Chicago. She went on to complete a fellowship in Cytopathology at…
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Professor Sanchia Aranda AM

Sanchia has worked in cancer control for over 40 years most recently as CEO of Cancer Council Australia (2015-2020) and Deputy CEO Cancer Institute NSW (2011-2015). She has held…
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Prof Suzanne Garland AO

Prof Suzanne Garland AO is a Clinical Microbiologist and Sexual Health Physician who has worked on HPV from epidemiology, clinical HPV vaccine trials for the bivalent and quadrivalent vaccines,…
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Vanessa Price

Vanessa Price is a Senior Program Manager for the cervical cancer elimination program of work, in the Asia and Pacific Health Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. Vanessa…

Speakers

Note that presenters of proffered papers, while not included here, will be included in the virtual program available at the conference.

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Amina Abdulkarim

Amina has over 5 years of experience as a management consultant. She specializes in immunization and PHC system strengthening, immunization program design and implementation, and new vaccine introduction research….
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Professor Sanchia Aranda AM

Sanchia has worked in cancer control for over 40 years most recently as CEO of Cancer Council Australia (2015-2020) and Deputy CEO Cancer Institute NSW (2011-2015). She has held…
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Dr. Ruanne Barnabas

Dr. Ruanne Barnabas is a South African physician-scientist, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School….
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Professor Deborah Bateson AM

Deborah Bateson AM is Professor of Practice at The Daffodil Centre, a joint venture between The University of Sydney and Cancer Council NSW and co-lead of the cervical cancer…
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Professor Julia Brotherton

Qualifications: B Med (Hons), MPH (Hons), Grad Dip App Epi, FAFPHM, PhD, GAICD. Professor Julia Brotherton is a Professor of Cancer Prevention Policy and Implementation, Melbourne School of Population and…
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Dr Margaret Lehi Bule

I am originally from Pentecost, an island in the northern province of Vanuatu, an Obstetrician Gynecologist working at Northern Provincial Hospital, Santo, Vanuatu. I graduated from Fiji National University…
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Ms. Belinda Chan

Belinda Chan has been the CEO of the Fiji Cancer Society since 2017, spearheading impactful initiatives such as the Community Palliative Care Program, which trains health workers to provide…
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Katrina Clark

Katrina Clark is the Aboriginal Immunisation Manager for Hunter New England (HNE), based in Newcastle. Barkindji woman from far Western New South Wales, she is deeply committed to enhancing…
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Amelia Hyatt

Amelia Hyatt is a health service, systems, and policy researcher, holding appointments at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Fiji Cancer Society. Amelia’s program of work combines a focus…
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Emily Kobayashi

Emily Kobayashi leads the HPV revitalization initiative at Gavi, aiming to vaccinate 86 million girls against HPV by the end of 2025. In this role, she collaborates with governments,…
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Eric L. Krakauer, MD, PhD

Eric L. Krakauer, MD, PhD, is Director of the Program in Global Palliative Care and Associate Professor of Medicine and of Global Health & Social Medicine at Harvard Medical…
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Dejan Krstik MD, MPH

Dejan Krstik is Director of the Cervical Screening Section, Cancer Screening Programs Branch at the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care. He has responsibility for delivery of the…
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Rosemary McKay

Rosemary McKay is currently Director, Universal Health Coverage, Global Health Division, in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade which oversees policies and programs relating to universal health coverage,…
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Mark Middleton

A radiation therapist with extensive management experience, Mark brings essential clinical expertise and astute strategic vision to his role as CEO of Icon Group. His leadership style is simple;…
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Forum Mistry

Forum Mistry is a Technical Advisor on Vaccine Markets Team at the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI). A trained pharmacist, she brings over a decade of experience across public…
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Dr Claire Nightingale

Dr Claire Nightingale is a senior research fellow at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne. Dr Nightingale obtained her PhD at the…
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Dr Sharnel Perera

Dr Sharnel Perera is currently the Program Manager of the National Gynae-Oncology Registry (NGOR).  NGOR is Australia’s first and only clinical quality registry that monitors and measures the standard…
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Shannon Rasmussen

Shannon Rasmussen is a registered nurse and sexologist, specialising in sexual health, disability and education. Shannon is the Senior International Nurse Educator at Family Planning Australia, where she supports…
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Dr Paulus Ripa

Dr Paulus Ripa is the Lead for EPIC PNG program in Papua New Guinea which will lead the EPIC program in rolling out elimination of cervical cancer services in…
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Daniela Rivas

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Daffodil Centre, specializing in applying computational models that simulate HPV transmission and cervical carcinogenesis, with a focus on low-income and lower-middle-income…
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Sharon Saxby

Mrs Sharon Saxby has extensive experience in strategic development, planning, provision, and management of immunisation programs, including the NSW School Vaccination Program. She was instrumental in setting up Newcastle…
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Vicky Sheppeard

Vicky is a public health physician who has been working for NSW Health since 1999. Vicky’s current role is Director, South Eastern Sydney Public Health Unit, and she is…
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Associate Professor Megan Smith

A/Prof Megan Smith leads high-income country projects in the Cervical Cancer/HPV Stream at the Daffodil Centre. She is an epidemiologist and simulation modeller with extensive experience in policy evaluations…
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Ange Steele

Ange is a Nurse Practitioner, Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Adolescent Health and a Master of Public Health. Ange has been a cervical…
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Dr. Ai Ling Tan

Dr. Ai Ling Tan is a gynaecological oncologist who trained in Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. She earned her Certificate in Gynaecological Oncology (CGO) in Australia, following…
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Professor Claire Vajdic

Claire Vajdic is a Professor of Epidemiology and Lead of the Integrated Data for Health Equity Group at the Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales. She is a…
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Professor Penny Webb

Professor Penny Webb is a cancer epidemiologist specialising in gynaecological cancers. She heads the Gynaecological Cancers Group at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane and her main…
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Associate Professor Lisa Whop

Associate Professor Lisa Whop is a Torres Strait Islander NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow and epidemiologist. She is Australia’s leading authority on cervical cancer control in Aboriginal and Torres…
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Professor Woo Yin Ling

Professor Woo Yin Ling is a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at University of Malaya and a consultant gynaecological oncologist in University Malaya Medical Centre.  She completed her specialist…
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Claire Zammit

Claire Zammit is a non-Indigenous PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, supported by a Melbourne Research Scholarship and the Centre of Research Excellence in Targeted Approaches To Improve…

Note that presenters of proffered papers, while not included here, will be included in the virtual program available at the conference.

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Virtual: $420
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