IMAC holds an Immunisation Workshop every year. The one day workshop programme is designed for front-line vaccinators, health care workers and immunisation coordinators. The workshops are a mixture of speaker presentations and concurrent group discussions. The topics tend to focus on practical aspects of service delivery and communication, but there are also clinical and technical updates.
Every second year, the workshop is combined with the National Immunisation Conference. The conference has a more academic focus, presenting recent research from areas of immunology, vaccinology, policy development and other topics. The conference attendees are usually a mix of workshop attendess and additional health professional, local and central government staff.
Both the workshop and conference attract international speakers and attendees. They are excellent opportunities to network with your local, national and international colleagues. We vary the location of the workshop and conferences to allow different regions of New Zealand, but always with airport access from major cities.
The 2013 National Immunisation Workshop and Conference is being held on 10-12 September at the Waipuna Hotel & Conference Centre.
Dr Marc LaForce, founding director of the Meningitis Vaccine Project is our keynote speaker. Dr LaForce led the successful development, licensure, and introduction of MenAfriVac™, the first vaccine designed specifically for Africa, and directed the project from 2001 until his retirement in 2012. The remainder of the programme is being finalised, to date there are five plenary sessions with breakout sessions allowing additional presentations and discussions around these themes:
- Disease control: Understanding the enemy
- Global lessons: Immunisation in other regions
- Vaccine safety: Post marketing surveillance
- Communications: The web, blogs, successes and challenges
- New schedules: Vaccinating adults and other specialised programmes
- Future vaccines: emerging vaccines for strep, staph, RSV, and others
More information about the conference and pre-conference workshop programme and speakers will be posted on our conference website as they become available.
The closing date for the Call for Abstracts is 8 pm on Wednesday 5th June 2013.
Please follow the links below to access the programme and content from past conferences.
- 2012: National Immunisation Workshop
- 2011: 7th NZ National Immunisation Conference and Workshop
- 2010: National Immunisation Workshop
- 2009: 6th NZ National Immunisation Conference and Workshop
- 2008: National Immunisation Workshop
- 2007: 5th New Zealand National Immunisation Conference and Workshop
- 2006: National Immunisation Symposium
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