The National Trachoma Surveillance and Control Reference Group
Name |
Position |
Committee role |
|---|---|---|
Meredeth Taylor |
Assistant Secretary, Rural, Remote and Indigenous Access Branch, Indigenous and Rural Health Division, Department of Health |
Chair Australian Government Department of Health Representative |
Rhonda Stilling |
Director, Better Access Section, Indigenous and Rural Health Division, Department of Health |
Australian Government Department of Health Representative |
David Scrimgeour |
Public Health Medical Officer, Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia |
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Representative |
Daniel Suggit |
Policy Advisor National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation |
National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation Representative |
Hugh Taylor |
Harold Mitchell Chair of Indigenous Eye Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne |
Expert |
Donna Mak |
Professor and Head, Population and Preventive Health, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle |
Expert |
Vicki Krause |
Director, Centre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Department of Health | Communicable Diseases Network Australia Representative |
Stephen Lambert |
Senior Medical Officer, Communicable Diseases Unit, Chief Health Officer Branch Queensland Health |
Queensland Health Representative |
Paula Spokes |
Manager Surveillance, Communicable Disease Branch, Health Protection New South Wales, New South Wales Ministry of Health |
New South Wales Ministry of Health Representative |
Charles Douglas |
Public Health Medical Officer, Centre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Department of Health | Northern Territory Department of Health Representative |
Lucy Angley |
Principal Project Manager Aboriginal Health, Country Health, South Australia Department of Health |
South Australia Department of Health Representative |
Melissa Vernon |
Area Director, Population Health Western Australia Country Health Service |
Western Australia Department of Health Representative |
John Kaldor |
Professor of Epidemiology, Public Health Interventions Research Group The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia |
National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit Representative |
Carleigh Cowling |
Senior Surveillance Officer The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia |
National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit Representative |
National Trachoma Surveillance and Reporting Unit
Name |
Position |
Committee role |
|---|---|---|
John Kaldor |
Professor of Epidemiology, Public Health Interventions Research Group, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia |
Chief Investigator |
David Wilson |
Associate Professor and Head, Surveillance and Evaluation Program for Public Health, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia |
Surveillance Expert |
Bette Liu |
Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Scientific Head of Research Assets, The Sax Institute |
Epidemiology Expert |
James Ward |
Deputy Director, Aboriginal Health, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Central Australia |
Indigenous Health Expert |
Tom Snelling | Princess Margaret Hospital, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research, UWA Centre for Child Health Research |
Paediatric Infectious Diseases Expert |
Carleigh Cowling | Senior Surveillance Officer, The Kirby Institute, UNSW Australia | Surveillance Officer |
Jurisdictional contributors to trachoma data collection
Northern Territory
- Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
- Aboriginal Medical Services Alliance of the Northern Territory
- Centre for Disease Control, Northern Territory Department of Health
- Healthy School-Age Kids Program: Top End and Central Australia
South Australia
- Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
- Aboriginal Health Council of South Australia
- Country Health SA Local Health Network, South Australia Health
Western Australia
- Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services
- Communicable Disease Control Directorate, Department of Health, Western Australia
- Goldfields Population Health Unit
- Kimberley Population Health Unit
- Midwest Population Health Unit
- Pilbara Population Health Unit
New South Wales
- Population Health Unit, Western NSW Local Health District