In this webinar, Professors Nikki Turner and Peter McIntyre will cover disease burden, the NZ vaccination programme and catch-up as well as best practice strategies to encourage vaccination.
- Enhance understanding of the risks and impacts of Meningococcal and pertussis, particularly in infants/ children and adolescents.
- Provide insights into the burden of these diseases and the importance of prevention through vaccination.
- Present current local and global vaccine recommendations and best practices for immunizing infants.
- Share strategies to effectively communicate vaccination importance to parents and caregivers.
As always, we will answer as many questions as possible during this session.
Presenter
Nikki Turner
MBCHB MPH DIB OBS DCH MD FRNZCGP FNZCPHM (Hon)
Professor Nikki Turner is an academic General Practitioner and the Medical Director of the Immunisation Advisory Centre, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Nikki’s interests are in immunisation, respiratory illness, primary and public health care. She resides in Wellington and works part-time as a General Practitioner. Nikki sits on a range of NZ national advisory groups for the government, Ministry of Health and Pharmac focused on clinical and policy advice around vaccine-preventable diseases, the immunisation programme and COVID-19.
Academically, Nikki is widely published with over 100 academic publications in the arenas of immunisation, vaccinology, and child health
Presenter
Peter McIntyre
Peter McIntyre has clinical qualifications as a paediatrician specialising in infectious diseases and is also qualified as a public health physician. His PhD was in invasive Hib disease and he has had subsequent research interests in pertussis, pneumococcal disease and more recently measles, with over 450 publications.
Since 2018 he has been a Professor and since 2023 Head of the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago. He was Director of Australia’s National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance based at the Children’s Hospital Westmead Sydney and Professor at the University of Sydney from 2004-2017 and was a member of the WHO’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) in immunisation from 2019-2024.
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from:
