Title of workshop

Date

1.

Pertussis vaccines: past, present and future.
Published 1998. Reference 21.

August 1997

2.

Measles control in Australia.
Published 1998. Reference 16.

November 1997

3.

Why do parents have their children immunised? Behavioural, social and demographic factors
influencing immunisation uptake.
Published 2000. Reference 57.
(a comprehensive booklet is available from NCIRS)

March 1998

4.

Pneumococcal disease in Australia.
Published 2000. Reference 58 and Reference 59.

March 1999

5.

Meningococcal disease in Australia:
surveillance and vaccine policy 2000 and beyond.
Proceedings of this workshop have been published as the following supplement.

April 2000

Meningococcal disease and vaccine policy in Australia - 2000 and beyond. Proceedings of a workshop held by the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance of Vaccine Preventable Diseases at the Children's Hospital, Westmead, New South Wales, 14 April 2000. J Paediatr Child Health 2001;37(October, No 5):S1-S37.

Meningococcal vaccines: Advances but new questions? JW Tapsall. S1-S2. [no abstract]
Epidemiology of meningococcal disease in Australia. J Jelfs, R Munro. S3-S6. [abstract]
Laboratory enhanced surveillance for meningococcal disease in Victoria. P Robinson, J Griffith, K Taylor, J Carnie, D Jolley, G Hogg, T Nolan. S7-S12. [abstract]
A 10-year serogroup B meningococcal disease epidemic in New Zealand: Descriptive epidemiology, 1991-2000. MG Baker, DR Martin, CEM Kieft, D Lennon. S13-S19. [abstract]
Meningococcal disease and vaccination in North America. AJ Pollard, D Scheifele. S20-S27. [abstract]
Meningococcal vaccine for adolescents? An economic evaluation in Victoria. SA Skull, JRG Butler. S28-S33. [abstract]
Introduction of a conjugate meningococcal type C vaccine programme in the UK. D Salisbury. S34-S36. Comment. PB McIntyre S27. [abstract]

6.

The role of modelling in control of measles and varicella - implications for surveillance and vaccine policy.

March 1999

7.

Pertussis in adolescents and adults. July 2001. Report in progress.

July 2001

8.

Immunisation: Communication and Perception of Risk, in Melbourne.

May 2002

9.

Varicella, varicella vaccination and smallpox vaccination, with Dr Jane Seward from CDC.

July 2002

10.

Vaccines in Public Health - MPH workshop for the University of Sydney

August 2002

11.

NCIRS Forum, with Cooperative Research Centre for Vaccine Technology, Brisbane.

November 2002

12.

Second National Pneumococcal Workshop, on long-term population-based surveillance, and vaccination with polysaccharide and conjugate vaccines in USA and Australia, with Dr Cynthia Whitney from CDC.

November 2002

13.

Immunisation-related data and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, under the auspices of OATSIH, in Canberra.

November 2002