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Program

The Australasian Epidemiological Association 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting will be hosted over three days from Wednesday 16 to Friday 18 July 2025. There will be pre-conference workshops held on the Wednesday 16 July. Below is a preliminary program overview. Topics and Keynote Speakers will be added once confirmed.  

  

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Program Overview

WEDNESDAY 16 JULY

Pre-Conference Workshops - Workshop Registration

  • 8:00am - 12.00pm - Workshop 1: Analysis planning for handling missing data in epidemiological studies: a new roadmap

  • 9:00am - 11.00am - Workshop 2: Meet the Editors

  • 1:00pm - 5.00pm - Workshop 3: Quantitative Bias Analysis with application to issues of misclassification

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Welcome Reception 

5.30pm - 6.00pm

Room: Mezzanine Foyer, Grand Chancellor Hotel

  • Welcome to Country: Elder Uncle Dougie Mansell

  • Co-Convenors Welcome

6.00pm - 7.00pm

  • Cocktail reception

  • Poster Session 1

THURSDAY 17 JULY

7:30am - 8.30am   ECR Continental breakfast with invited speakers

 

9:00am - 10.00am   Opening Plenary Session - The Role of Intuition in Epidemiology

Chair: Professor Margarita Moreno-Betancur, Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics Unit, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute & University of Melbourne

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Keynote Speaker: Dr Matthew Fox, Professor, Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health, Boston University​

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10.00am - 10.30am    Morning Tea​

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10.30am - 12.00pm   Concurrent Session 1

  • 1A - Big Data

  • 1B - Social Epi

  • 1C - Health behaviours

  • 1D - Rapid Fire - Emerging concerns

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12:00pm - 1:00pm     Lunch and Poster Session 2

 

1:00pm - 2.00pm   Plenary Session 2 - Consent, trust and privacy in the age of digital data research

Chair: Professor James Stanley, Biostatistician, University Of Otago, Wellington

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Keynote Speaker: Professor Angela Ballantyne, University of Otago, Wellington​

 

2:10pm - 3.30pm   Concurrent Session 2

  • 2A - Leveraging linked data - Australian Institute of Health

  • 2B - Mental Health

  • 2C - Women's and children's health

  • 2D - Rapid Fire - Chronic conditions​

 

3:30pm - 4:00pm      Afternoon Tea

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4:00pm - 4.45pm - Q&A Session - Future needs for the epidemiological workforce

Facilitator: Associate Professor Melissa Russell
Panellists:

  • Professor Paul Kelly, Former Chief Medical Officer and Head of Interim Australian Centre for Disease Control

  • Professor Tony Blakely, Director, Population Interventions (PI) Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

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4:45pm - 5:30pm - Ian Prior Oration - Modern epidemiology - the science of public health and beyond

Chair: Professor Graham Giles, Distinguished Research Fellow, Cancer Council Victoria

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Orator: Professor Anne-Louise Ponsonby (B Med Sci, MBBS, PhD, FAFPHM, FAFHMS, RACP), NHMRC Senior Leadership Fellow, Division Head, Early Brain Division and Research Group, Head of the Neuroepidemiology Group, Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health​

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FRIDAY 18 JULY

9:00am - 10.00am   ECR Workshop​

Chair: Professor Leigh Blizzard, Menzies Institute for Medical Research, University of Tasmania

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ECR Speaker: Dr Karen Tuesley, Lecturer, University of Queensland

Expert Discussant: Prof. Tony Blakely, Director, Population Interventions (PI) Unit, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health

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ECR Speaker: Mr Mehari Merid, PhD Student, University of Melbourne

Expert Discussant: Dr Valery Fuh Ngwa, Menzies Institute of Medical Research, University of Tasmania

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10.00am - 10.30am    Morning Tea

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10:10am - 10.30am   Update on the establishment of the Australian CDC

Presenter: Ms Emma Denehy, Assistant Secretary, Public Health & Surveillance Branch, Interim CDC

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10.30am - 12.00pm   Concurrent Session 3

  • 3A - Methods

  • 3B - Populations and place

  • 3C - Cancer

  • 3D - Rapid Fire - Descriptive epi

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12.00pm - 1.00pm    Lunch and Annual General Meeting

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1:00pm - 2.00pm   Plenary Session 3 - Accelerating Discovery: Modernizing Epidemiologic Cohorts for Impact

Chair: Dr Mathias Seviiri, Postdoctoral Fellow, QIMR Berghofer

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Keynote Speaker: Dr Alpa Patel, Senior Vice President of Population Science, American Cancer Society​

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2.10pm - 3.30pm   Concurrent Session 4

  • 4A - Infectious disease

  • 4B - Pharmecoepidemiology

  • 4C - Cardiovascular disease

  • 4D - Rapid Fire - Surveillance and big data

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3.30pm - 4.00pm    Afternoon Tea

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4:00pm - 5:00pm   Plenary Session 4 - Real-time surveillance, taming the data beast 

Chair - Professor Nicola Stephens, Professor of Public Health and Director, Public Health and Health Service Innovation Program, University of Tasmania

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Keynote Speakers:

  • Keynote Speaker 1 - Dr Stacey Rowe, Postdoctoral Fellow, Infectious Diseases Epidemiologist, Kaiser Permanente Souther California

  • Keynote Speaker 2 - Associate Professor David Muscatello, Associate Professor in infectious diseases epidemiology, University of New South Wales

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5.00pm - 5:30pm   Conference closing session and awards

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