Carol El-Hayek: What is ATLAS and why do we need it?
Seminar Overview
The Indigenous Primary Care Surveillance & Research Network (ATLAS) is a sentinel surveillance system set up to monitor sexually transmissible infections (STI) and blood borne viruses (BBV) in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander populations. It is a unique system partnering with ACCHOs and ACCHSs around Australia to receive clinical data from around 90 sites for the purpose of understanding and improving engagement in STI and BBV care. The presentation will describe ATLAS in detail, its objectives, and its future direction.
Speaker
Carol El-Hayek is an epidemiologist and public health researcher with over 15 years’ experience managing state and national surveillance systems, monitoring blood borne viruses and sexually transmissible infections, and evaluating public health programs. Carol is a certified health informatician and has completed a PhD studying the application of computational analytics to real-world electronic medical records to enhance disease surveillance.
Carol is a Senior Research Fellow in the UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, managing the ATLAS Indigenous primary care surveillance network.
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