Call for Abstracts
Conference Theme
Featuring expert international and national speakers, the meeting will focus on policy, implementation and new technology developments relevant to screening of existing and proposed adult chronic diseases.
The 2027 theme is: “Shaping the Future of Screening in Australia”.
Conference Objectives
The objectives of the conference are to:
- Learn from community-led projects to improve equity of access and culturally safe screening practices across screening programs.
- Highlight key current and future advances in population screening and identify how evidence might be gathered to support implementation so as to improve outcomes.
- Explore mechanisms to better assess emerging evidence allowing a policy response that achieves best possible health outcomes within resource constraints.
Target Audience
Program Content and Structure
Conference Advisory Committee
Prof. Gary Sacks
Co-Chair
Professor of Public Health Policy, Deakin University
Ms Joanne Graham-Smith
Co-Chair
Senior Manager Projects And Strategy, Healthway
Dr. Jelena Maticevic
A/Deputy Chief Health Officer – Public Health, Department of Health WA, Public and Aboriginal Health Division
Ms Anna Bauze
Manager - Translational Research, Preventive Health SA
Dr. Simone Nalatu
A/Senior Director Prevention Systems, Health and Wellbeing Queensland
Ms Clare Collings
Lead, Commercial and Economic Systems, VicHealth
Dr. Sarah Dash
Manager Research Strategy and Impact, Heart Foundation
Ms Paige Preston
Chief Strategy Officer, Lung Foundation Australia
Ms Gemma Tuxworth
Partnerships and Impact Manager, The Australian Prevention Partnership Centre
Ms Veronica Perera
Executive Officer, Australian Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance
Mr Luke van der Beeke
Vice President, Australian Health Promotion Association
Vice President, Australian Health Promotion Association | Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Behaviour Change Collaborative
Ms Melissa Ledger
Cancer Prevention and Research Director, Cancer Council WA
Dr. Claire Johnson
Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer, PHAA
Mr Paris Lord
Communications and MediaManager, PHAA
Mr Paris Lord has more than two decades’ experience including senior roles with the Australian Local Government Association, Australian National University, and Australian Consulate-General Shanghai.
He has been a senator’s media advisor, and worked as a commercial radio, print, magazine, and newspaper journalist in Australia and east Asia.
Please press slider to view more profiles
Please press slider to view more profiles
Please press slider to view more profiles
Please press slider to view more profiles
Please press slider to view more profiles
Your Host
The Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA) is recognised as the principal non-government organisation for public health in Australia and works to promote the health and well-being of all Australians. The Association seeks better population health outcomes based on prevention, the social determinants of health and equity principles.
PHAA is a national organisation comprising around 1,900 individual members and representing over 40 professional groups concerned with the promotion of health at a population level. The Public Health Association of Australia provides forums for the discussion of public health in Australia and a voice of a wide variety of professional public health workers.
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health (ANZJPH), PHAA provides Australia’s basic public health infrastructure that links those undertaking research in public health and those undertaking policy and program development and implementation.
Via our conferences, workshops, forums and other member events, we bring together those seeking to debate scientific evidence, policy and program evaluation and options for the further and better development of public health in Australia.
The Policy Statements that are developed within PHAA are provided to the public to help educate Australians about the scientific evidence and policy options around public health. They are also the primary resource for our advocacy efforts efforts that underlie bringing policy alternatives to the attention of governments and bureaucrats.