Webinar: The Indigenous Health Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

3 June 2020
12:00pm (AEST)

ASHM’s Taskforce on BBVs, Sexual Health and COVID-19 presents a lunchtime webinar The Indigenous Health Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please join your host A/Professor Dr Edwina Wright, ASHM COVID-19 Taskforce Chair and Professor James Ward, Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health and Professor within the School of Public Health at the University of Queensland and Doctor Darren Russell, Director of Sexual Health at the Cairns and Hinterland Hospital & Health Services.

Together, they will provide a situational update on the Indigenous health response to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Group (Taskforce) on COVID-19, the Management Plan for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Populations during COVID-19, the Go8 Roadmap to Recovery – A Report for the Nation. Discussions will also cover travel restrictions to remote communities, telehealth, GeneXpert®Point of Care Test machines and plans for the future, as First Nations people continue to lead the way in the response to the pandemic.

Register here.