Speakers
Associate Professor Philip Britton
Staff Specialist, Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Children's Hospital Westmead
Associate Professor Philip Britton is a Paediatric Infectious Diseases physician and Early Career Researcher based at the Children's Hospital at Westmead.
Dr Kerry Chant
Chief Health Officer, NSW Ministry of Health
Dr Kerry Chant is a public health physician, Chief Health Officer for New South Wales (NSW) and Deputy Secretary, Population and Public Health, NSW Ministry of Health. Dr Chant has extensive public health experience, having held a range of senior public health positions in NSW since 1991. She has a particular interest in bloodborne virus infections, communicable disease prevention and control, and Indigenous health
Dr Charbel Wehbe
Infectious Diseases Advance Trainee, NSW Ministry of Health
Dr Charbel Wehbe is an Infectious Diseases Advanced Trainee and has a Doctor of Medicine (MChD) from ANU and a masters of pharmacy from Sydney University
Dr Rebekah Hoffman
Chair RACGP NSW&ACT Faculty
Dr Rebekah Hoffman is a specialist GP and a fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practice. She has special interest in a broad range across Women’s and Children’s Health, Sport Medicine, Surgery and Business Governance. Further to this, she also enjoys teaching, being a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong in Medical Education, and regularly mentors students studying medicine from a number of Universities in NSW.
Dr Christine Selvey
Director, Communicable Diseases Branch, NSW Ministry of Health
Dr Christine Selvey is the Director of the Communicable Diseases Branch and former Director of the COVID Influenza Branch within NSW Health. Christine came from Queensland Health, where she had been the Director of the Queensland Communicable Diseases Branch. Christine is currently the NSW representative of the Communicable Diseases Network Australia.