HDA 14th Annual Oration 2018
- Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 5:45 pm - 7:30 pm
- Location: Union House, Rumours 6th floor, University of Adelaide, North Terrace campus
- Cost: Free
- Contact: Anne Jurisevic 8313 8222
- Email: anne.jurisevic@adelaide.edu.au
- Professor Helen Marshall Professor in Vaccinology, Adelaide Medical School and Deputy Director, Clinical and Translational Research of the Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide/Senior Medical Practitioner and Director of VIRTU, Women’s and Children’s Hospital
Protecting our children against serious infectious diseases
Immunisation programs introduced around the world have resulted in millions of lives saved. There is an exciting opportunity to further enhance this impact through using vaccines to harness herd immunity and improve protection against life-threatening diseases. Immunisation strategies that are designed to protect the individual as well as others in the community provide additional benefits in reducing disability and deaths from serious infectious diseases in our most vulnerable babies, children and young people. Australia has one of the best immunisation programs in the world but there’s still work to do to understand how we can best use vaccines to
extend the benefits of immunisation beyond the individual to the whole community.
When: Wednesday 31 October 2018, 5.45 - 7.30 pm, doors open from 5.30 pm
Where: Union House, Rumours 6th floor, University of Adelaide, North Terrace campus
Cost: Free. All welcome. Food and drink following the event.
RSVP: Essential for catering purposes. Please RSVP by Thursday 25 October 2018 to anne.jurisevic@adelaide.edu.au
Chaired by HDA Co-Convenor Professor Claire Roberts, Lloyd Cox Professorial Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Robinson Research Institute, University of Adelaide
Professor Marshall will be presented with the Healthy Development Adelaide Award for 2018 HDA will also be recognising HDA Co-Convenor Professor Michael Sawyer
Professor Helen Marshall is a medical researcher with specialist training in child health, public health and vaccinology having completed a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery, Doctorate of Medicine, Master in Public Health, Diploma in Child Health and the international Advanced Vaccinology Course, Pasteur Merieux Institute, France.
She is Professor in Vaccinology in the Adelaide Medical School and Deputy Director, Clinical and Translational Research of the Robinson Research Institute at the University of Adelaide and Senior Medical Practitioner and Director of VIRTU at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital.
She has been awarded three NHMRC Fellowships most recently a NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship. In recognition of her research leadership she was awarded the South Australia Science Award for Excellence in Research for the Public Good and NHMRC’s “10 of the best” for 2016.