This webinar was presented by Dr Vicky Sheppeard. The epidemiology of meningococcal disease in Australia, disease control guidelines, and their application to single cases and special situations such as child care centres and Aboriginal communities were covered.
Presenter: Dr Vicky Sheppeard is a Public Health Physician who has been working for NSW Health since 1999. Her current role is Director, Communicable Diseases Branch, Health Protection NSW. This role includes overseeing surveillance of notifiable diseases in NSW, coordinating communicable disease control activities, oversight of immunisation programs, including delivery of the school-based adolescent vaccination program and representing NSW on Communicable Disease Network Australia. Dr Sheppeard managed health protection services in the Nepean Blue Mountains and Western Sydney Local Health Districts from 2008 to 2013.
