ASHM and the Rapid Point of Care Research Consortium for Infectious Diseases (RAPID) would like to thank everyone who attended the 1st Asia Pacific Conference on Point of Care Testing for Infectious Diseases (POC 2023).

A special thank you goes to our committee, reviewers, speakers, sponsors and supporters.

You can view the conference program below:

 Conference Committee 2023

Co-Convenors:

Tanya Applegate - Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, the RAPID (Research for Asia Pacific Infectious Disease) Diagnostics Centre and an ARC Industry Transformation Research Hub to combat antimicrobial resistance
Megan Campbell - National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO)
Jason Grebely - Hepatitis C and Drug Use Group in the Viral Hepatitis Clinical Research Program at the Kirby Institute, UNSW
Rebecca Guy - Kirby Institute for infection and immunity in society, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW
Angela Kelly-Hanku - PNGIMR / UNSW
Lise Lafferty - UNSW Sydney
Susan Matthews - Flinders University International Centre for Point-of-Care Testing, Point-of-Care Testing, College of Medicine & Public Health, Flinders University
Jessica Michaels - ASHM Health

Program Committee:

David Anderson - Burnet Institute
Asha Bowen - Perth Children’s Hospital 
Philip Cunningham - St Vincent’s Health Network
Flora Dadong Wu - SMU Institute for Global Health
Wayne Dimech - Scientific and Business Relation of the NRL, a WHO Collaborating Centre
Arika Garg - Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI)
Manoji Gunathilake - Sexual Health Medicine and the head of Sexual Health & Blood Borne Virus Unit, NT Health
Jessica Markby - FIND, the global alliance for Diagnostics 
Ari Natalia Probandari - Sebelas Maret University
Claire Nightingale - Melbourne School of Population and Global Health at the University of Melbourne
Nittaya Phanuphak - nstitute of HIV Research and Innovation (IHRI) 
Pande Putu Januraga - Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Udayana University
Vonathak Saphonn - University of Health Sciences (UHS)
Carla Treloar - Social Research in Health, UNSW
Andrew Vallely - Kirby Institute UNSW and the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research (PNGIMR)
Lara Vojnov - Global HIV, Hepatitis and STI Programme at WHO 
Deb Williamson - Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory and Public Health Microbiology at the University of Melbourne

Keynote Speakers

Lorraine Anderson - Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Services
Marta Fernández Suárez - Chief Technology Officer, FIND
Angela Kelly-Hanku - PNGIMR / UNSW
Duncan Macinnis - MTPConnect
Yuka Manabe - Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Susan Matthews - Flinders University International Centre for Point of Care Testing
Rosanna Peeling - London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Trevor Peter - Clinton Health Access Initiative
Nittaya Phanuphak - Institute of HIV Research and Innovation
Lady Roslyn Morauta - Vice-Chair, Board of the Global Fund

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