Confirmed international speakers include:

	Professor Ken Rothman DMD MPH DrPH Professor of Epidemiology, School of Public Health Boston University Dr. Rothman is Vice President for Epidemiology Research at RTI Health Solutions, a non-profit research consulting company based in North Carolina. He is also a Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health and in the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. His main career interest has been the development and teaching of the concepts and methods of epidemiologic research. His research has spanned a wide range of health problems, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurologic disease, birth defects, injuries, environmental exposures and drug epidemiology. He was the founding editor of the journal Epidemiology, and has served as Assistant Editor of the American Journal of Public Health, Editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology, a member of the Editorial Board of the New England Journal of Medicine and the International Advisory Board of the Lancet. For a full bio click here [PDF, 34.2KB] Download Prof Rothman's abstract: Epidemiology Under Pressure [PDF, 20.9KB] top
	Professor David Hunter MBBS ScD Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition Harvard School of Public Health For a full bio click here [PDF, 27.6KB] Download Prof Hunter's abstract: Epidemiology in the “omics” era [PDF, 24.1KB]
	A/Professor Ana V. Diez-Roux MD PhD MPH Associate Professor, Epidemiology School of Public Health University of Michigan Dr. Diez Roux is an epidemiologist whose work has focused on the examination of the social determinants of health. Originally trained as a pediatrician in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she received an M.P.H. and a Ph.D. in Health Policy from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She is currently Associate Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Diez Roux's empirical work has focused on the social determinants of cardiovascular disease with special emphasis on the examination of how residential environments shape the distribution of cardiovascular risk. For a full bio click here [PDF, 23.1KB] Download A/Prof Diez-Roux' abstract: Investigating the multilevel determinants of health [PDF, 22.9KB]

 

Confirmed national speakers include:

	A/Professor Alison Venn BSciHons(UK) PhD(UK) GradDipEpid(Melbourne) Menzies Research Institute, University of Tasmania Associate Professor Alison Venn is Deputy Director of the Menzies Research Institute in Hobart and Director of the Tasmanian Cancer Registry. Her research interests span chronic disease and reproductive epidemiology with a particular focus on cohort studies. Download A/Prof Venn's abstract: Epidemiological research in Australia [PDF, 26.2KB]   top
	Professor Neil Pearce PhD Director, Centre for Public Health Research Massey University, New Zealand Professor Pearce is Director, of the Centre for Public Health Research in the Research School of Public Health on the Massey University Wellington Campus. Since the completion of his PhD in epidemiology in 1985 he has been engaged in a wide range of public health research activities, including a particular interest in epidemiologic methods.  Current research interests include occupational and environmental health, respiratory disease, cancer, Màori health, and Pacific health research. He is currently President-Elect of the International Epidemiological Association. Download Prof Pearce's abstract: Observational epidemiology vs clinical trials [PDF, 37.5KB] top
	Professor Judith Lumley AM MA MBBS PhD GradDipChildDev FAFPHM FFPH(UK) Director, Mother and Child Health Research LaTrobe University For a full bio click here [PDF, 37.4KB] Download Prof Lumley's abstract: Vanishing data in routine perinatal collections: missing, truncated and downsized [PDF, 8.32KB]   top
	Professor Konrad Jamrozik BMedSci MBBS (Tas) DPhil (Oxon) FAFPHM MFPH (UK) LTM Professor of Evidence Based Health Care School of Population Health University of Queensland Konrad Jamrozik undertook his basic medical training in Adelaide and Hobart in Australia and subsequently completed a doctorate in Oxford where he examined various strategies for the promotion of the cessation of smoking in general practice.  Following a brief period as a Lecturer in Community Medicine at the University of Papua New Guinea in Port Moresby, where he was also a clinical assistant on the leprosy service, he moved to the University of Western Australia in mid-1984 to take up a research fellowship in the Unit of Clinical Epidemiology.  He subsequently held lectureships in medicine and in public health at the University of Western Australia and was promoted to Professor of Public Health at UWA early in 2000. From December 2000 until September 2004 he held the chair in Primary Care Epidemiology at Imperial College, London. He is currently Professor of Evidence-based Health Care at the University of Queensland. For a full bio, click here [PDF, 28.9KB] Download Prof Jamrozik's abstract on large-scale randomized trials [PDF, 25.3KB] top
	A/Professor Anne Kavanagh MBBS PhD FAFPHM Principal Research Fellow Key Centre for Women’s Health in Society University of Melbourne Associate Professor Kavanagh is a medically trained epidemiologist who is well-known for her work on cancer screening programs and social epidemiology. She has been on a number of Victorian and national committees related to the breast and cervical cancer screening programs and she is consultant epidemiologist to BreastScreen Victoria. In 2001 she was awarded a VicHealth Senior Research Fellowship for the topic "The importance of place in health inequalities". In 2002 she was awarded the "Young Tall Poppies Award" from the Australian Institute of Political Science for her contribution to public health research. For a full bio, click here [PDF, 28.1KB] Download A/Prof Kavanagh's abstract: Place and health in Australia: Future possibilities [PDF, 28.4KB] top
	Dr Margaret Hellard MBBS FRACP PhD FAFPHM Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research Burnet Institute Margaret is the Director of the Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health Research (CEPHR) at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne.  Blood-borne viruses (BBV) and sexually transmitted infections (STI) are the major focus of CEPHRs work, which conducts innovative research into BBV and STI epidemiology and control in Victoria and Australia. CEPHRs research focuses on populations at particular risk from these infections such as injecting drug users, people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, young people and men who have sex with men. Research projects Margaret is currently undertaking combine social network epidemiology, molecular epidemiology and ethnography in the study of HCV, HIV and chlamydia transmission. Margaret retains clinical involvement as an infectious disease physician at the Alfred and Royal Melbourne Hospitals, particularly focusing on the management of people infected with BBVs. Download Dr Hellard's abstract: Molecular epidemiology and infectious disease [PDF, 28.9KB]   top