Tutorial: Covid Surveillance & Vaccination Planning

Category: Tutorial Dates - Other

Date: December 10th 2020 9:30am until 4:30pm

Location: via MS Teams

 
These tutorials are open to Public Health Specialty Registrars on the South West Public Health Training Programme only.

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If you have confirmed attendance and then find you are unable to attend, it is important to inform Lucy Brenton.

9h 30

Training Programme Team Update with Maggie, Diane & Gemma

10 h

Tutorial Starts: Introduction

10 h 10

Covid-19 Laboratory Updates/Testing - Derren Ready, Field Services, PHE

10 h 40

Covid-19 PHE Surveillance - Charles Beck, Field Services, PHE

11 h 10

Break

11 h 30

PHE Syndromic Surveillance - Alex Elliot, PHE Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance Team

12h

Registrar Business Meeting chaired by Rob Hayward and Joanna McLaughlin

12 h 30

Lunch break

13 h 30

Covid-19 Vaccine: Updates & Modelling - Hannah Christensen

14h 30

5 minute comfort break

14 h 35

COVID-19 Vaccine Workshop – 10 mins introduction, 45mins in small groups, 30 mins group discussion (External facilitator: Katy Turner)

1) COVID-19 vaccination campaign: Local authority challenges, key messages, culturally competent messaging, targeting marginalised groups

2) Misinformation about vaccines on social media: Do any of us correct misinformation when we see it on SM? Why/ why not? What is the evidence for whether correcting misinformation changes behaviour? 

3) Frontline healthcare worker COVID-19 vaccination campaign: making comparisons to the seasonal influenza vaccine campaigns, using personal stories with patients, discussing our cognitive biases.

16 h 00

Closing Remarks. Video link closes.

 

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