WA Health – Contact tracing for COVID-19 & other infections: principles and practice – Videoconference

Wednesday 2 September 2020
9:00am-10:00am
Locations:
Albany Health Campus – L1.1118 Mammang Koort, Education Centre, Level 1 OR Primary Health Meeting Room OR Waitch Meeting Room GL1244, Ambulatory Care Zone 2
• Kincinnup Boardroom – 84 Collie St, Albany
• Aboriginal Health Services – Condinup Meeting Room, 61 Serpentine Rd, Albany
• Katanning Health Campus – Seminar Room, Coleraine Wing
• Scopia video-conference

By the end of this session you will:
• Have an overview of the transmission and clinical features of COVID-19 and its public health management in Australia
• Understand the principles of contact tracing
• Understand how these principles are applied in the control of COVID-19 and syphilis

Presenters:
Ms Brenda Kamau, Senior public health nurse.
Prof Donna Mak, Public health physician.
Dr Ben Scalley, Public health physician.

Who is welcome to attend?
• ALL doctors, nurses, allied health, aged care, prison health, health promotion, local government staff and anyone who is likely to be involved in the COVID-19 response
• ALL student health care workers

Register before COB Thurs 27 Aug 2020 by emailing your name, organisation, phone number and venue/VC preference to Tina.Spencer@health.wa.gov.au