The full program is currently under development. The tentative program is listed below. This program will be updated regularly.
0830: Registration, Tea and Coffee
0900: Session 1
0900: Opening remarks from the Symposium organisers – Jamie Ranse
0910: Opening remarks from Griffith University
0920: Keynote speaker – Kris Spaepen
1000: Finke Desert Race – Andrew Thomas, St John Ambulance Australia (NT)
1015: The impact of mass gathering events on remote health care services and communities – Susan Wilkes, Central West Hospital and Health Service, Birdsville, Australia
1030: Morning Tea / Networking
1100: Risk and risk assessments
1100: Rethinking crowded places: Creating safe and healthy areas for mass gathering – Sarah Smorhun, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia
1115: Strengthening mass gatherings planning: creating a user friendly all-hazards risk assessment tool – Lucia Mullen, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, WHO Collaborating Centre on Global Health Security, Baltimore, USA
1130: Factors affecting patient presentation and transfer to hospital rates during mass gathering stadium events: A scoping review – Nazneen Sultana, Griffith University
1145: Using psychosocial factors to reduce harm and promote health at mass gatherings – Angela Driscoll, Haven Crowd Care
1200: Discussion panel
1230: Lunch / Networking
1330: 2023 Pacific Games: public health preparedness
1330: Health threatening hazards risk-assessment approach in mass gathering event, Solomon Islands, November-December 2023 – Onofre Edwin A Merilles Jr, Pacific Community, Noumea, New-Caledonia
1345: Interagency planning and collaboration to strengthen enhanced surveillance in a multi-sport mass gathering event: The Sol2023 Pacific Games experience – Salanieta T Saketa, Pacific Community, Suva, Fiji
1400: Digitalization of syndromic surveillance and timely reporting in the Sol2023 Pacific Games – Bobby Teobasi, Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Honiara, Solomon Islands
1415: Sol2023 Pacific Games integrated surveillance system implementation and decision-making – Cynthia Joshua, Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Honiara, Solomon Islands
1430: Enhanced Laboratory Surveillance for Sol2023 Pacific Games – Talica Cabemaiwai, Pacific Community, Suva, Fiji
1445: Risk communication and community engagement for effective mass gathering management, Solomon Islands, November-December 2023 – Anne Toncan Eli, Solomon Islands Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Honiara, Solomon Islands
1500: Afternoon Tea / Networking
1530: Day 1 closing session
1530: Keynote speaker – Paul Arbon
1600: Training standards for medical staff at mass gathering events: A Delphi study for expert consensus – Dana Mathew, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA
1615: Mass gathering capacities and systems to strengthen GHS: Using the legacy and evaluation of mass gatherings to strengthen health systems, Tina Endricks, UK Health Security Agency
1630: Discussion panel
1700: Conclusion
1715: Networking event commences
Location: Uni Bar Gold Coast. The Link (G07), Griffith University, Parklands Drive, Southport QLD 4215
What is included?
- Upon arrival, you will receive 2 tokens that you can redeem at the bar for drinks (soft drinks, juice, wine, beer).
- A variety of hot and cold finger food options will be available throughout the evening
Should you attend?
Yes. Attendees from the last symposium stated that the Uni Bar networking event was the best aspect of the symposium for making new contacts and catch-up with old friends.
1900: Networking event conclusion
0830: Registration, Tea and Coffee
0900: Day 2 opening
0900: Opening remarks and day one summary – Jamie Ranse
0910: Opening remarks from Griffith University – Caroline Riot, Director, Games Partnerships and Engagement, Griffith University
0920: Keynote speaker – Tina Endricks
1000: Learning from Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022: Mitigating Spread of Respiratory Diseases at Future Olympic Games – Lucia Mullen, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
1015: Supporting high performance: Infectious disease control and NCCTRC pandemic support to the Australian Olympic Teams for Toyko2020 and Beijing2022 – Nick Walsh, National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre
1030: Morning Tea / Networking
1100: Youth and mass gatherings
1100: Making sure everyone is OK’: Staff and consumer perspectives on in-event health services – Laura Ferris, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Queensland
1115: Recreational drug use and checking patterns prior to outdoor music festivals: A survey of young adult festival attendees – Alison Hutton, University of Newcastle, Australia.
1130: Safer Schoolies Initiative: Gold Coast Response – Anna Hanson – Department of Treaty, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships, Communities and the Arts, Queensland Government
1145: Promoting Health at Gold Coast Youth Events – Katherine Cacavas – Gold Coast Public Health Unit, Gold Coast Health
1200: Discussion panel
1230: Lunch / Networking
1330: Lesson learned and case studies
1330: Keynote – TBC
1400: Ningaloo Total Solar Eclipse 2023 – Stacey Abbott, St John WA
1415: Filling a gap of mass gatherings medical planning: development of a model based on the WHO Emergency Medical Teams’ (EMT) methodology [pre-recorded presentation] – Ninglan Wang / Flavio Salio, Health Emergencies Programme, World Health Organization
1430: TBC – Ethan Dooley, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, 1300MEDICS
1445: Host countries experiences in Mass Gatherings medical planning: the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) Experience in Portugal’s World Youth Days (WYD) 2023 – Ana Correia, National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) – PT EMT, Lisbon, Portugal
1500: TBC – Elliot Williams, Nurse Practitioner; Deputy Commissioner – Clinical Systems, St John Ambulance Australia (New South Wales)
1500: Afternoon Tea / Networking
1530: Public and environmental health
1530: Enhanced Surveillance at the 7th MACFEST in Port Vila – Wendy Williams, Vanuatu Ministry of Health, Port Vila, Vanuatu
1545: Syndromic surveillance: Identifying and interrupting the spread of infectious diseases at mass gathering events – Victoria Marriott, Gold Coast Public Health Unit, Queensland Health and The National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University
1545: Day in the Life of an Environmental Health Officer During a Mass Gathering Event – Alysse Regan, Metro South Public Health Unit, Queensland Health
1600: Discussion panel
1645: Closing remarks – Jamie Ranse
1700: Conclusion
Mass Gathering focused
1. Around the Mass Gathering Medicine World We Go – Mary Showstark
2. Non‐invasive hemodynamic monitoring in a collapsed runner – An Yi Wang
3. Enhanced public health surveillance in the mass gathering for the XVII Pacific Games in Honiara, Solomon Islands, November–December 2023 – Cynthia Joshua
4. Using the Simulation Exercise and After Action Review methodologies to strengthen capacities for health security for mass gatherings – Ninglan Wang / Maria Borodina
Disaster focused
5. Role of Women in mass gathering incidents involving CBRN agents – Joelle Khadra
6. Disaster drills effectiveness on managing mass casualty events – Majed Alanazi
7. Operations support (logistics and clinical) from the Portuguese Emergency Medical Team (PT EMT) to the Ministry of Health and World Health Organization (WHO) country office of São Tomé & Principe (STP) during the COVID 19 pandemic response – Ana Correia, National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) – PT EMT, Lisbon, Portugal
8. Responding to disaster’s challenges – the Portuguese Emergency Medical Team (PT EMT) pharmacy supply chain model – Ana Correia, National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) – PT EMT, Lisbon, Portugal
9. Improving disaster logistics to save lives in the Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) – continuous quality improvement in medical stock management of the Portuguese Emergency Medical Team (PT EMT) – Ana Correia, National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM) – PT EMT, Lisbon, Portugal
KEY DATES
- NOW OPEN: Abstract submissions
- NOW OPEN: Registration
- 29th February 2024: Abstract submissions close
- 22nd March 2024: Abstract submission outcome notification
- 15th April 2024: Symposium program finalised
- 24th June 2024: Symposium commences