Location:
Level 6, Seminar Room Wallace Wurth Building UNSW Australia Sydney NSW 2052
Open to
All
Contact for enquiries
Rata Joseph +61 (0)2 9385 0900 rjoseph@kirby.unsw.edu.au
The Kirby Institute is pleased to present:
Professor Basil Donovan -Head of the Sexual Health Program, Kirby Institute
"Evaluating the Australian HPV vaccination program."
Abstract:
Australia leads the world in the speed of implementation of its quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program. The program began with schoolgirls and young women in 2007, and was the first to offer free vaccination to schoolboys from 2013. Decades from now the vaccination program should result in dramatic declines in HPV-related anogenital and oropharyngeal cancers. In the meantime, the impact of the vaccination program can be evaluated through measuring its population coverage; monitoring for adverse events; determining effects on HPV prevalence; and surveillance of short- to medium-term HPV-related morbidity such as genital warts, recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, and precancerous lesions. This seminar will review how the vaccination program has been evaluated and summarise the (exciting) findings to date.
Bio:
Basil Donovan is a NHMRC Practitioner Fellow and a registered Sexual Health and Public Health Physician. In 2009 he established the Sexual Health Program at the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society www.kirby.unsw.edu.au : The Program is invloved in wide-ranging research. including national surveillance networks, Donovan is on the Board (President 2013-2015) of the International Society for STD Research www.isstdr.org . In September 2015 he Chaired the World STI & HIV Congress in Brisbane www.worldsti2015.com