
qualifications: GCPH
contribution: original concept
position: Program manager health protection
Australia
Areas of interest and work: - Communicable diseases - Immunisation - Aboriginal health - Equity focus for health protection

qualifications: BSc
contribution: collected data
position: Senior environmental health officer
Australia

qualifications: PhD
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Professor and project leader
Australia
Sherry Saggers, PhD, is Professor and Project Leader of the Social Contexts of Substance Use at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology. An anthropologist, she has researched and published on Indigenous health, substance use, well being and community development; the sociology of the children, families and young people; and on the evaluation of health and comunity programs across Australia.

qualifications: DrPH
contribution: contributed to drafts
position: Service director health protection
Australia
Communicable disease control International public health
Varicella-zoster virus immunity among healthcare workers in Greece
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Public access defibrillation across Crete, Greece
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Very high altitude and frailty syndrome in rural communities in Peru
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53rd Annual NARMH Conference, 27–29 September 2026, Santa Fe, NM, USA
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15th EURIPA Rural Health Forum, 1–3 October 2026, Cartagena, Spain
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2026 Indigenous Wellbeing Conference, 12–13 October 2026, Ngambri and Ngunnawal Country (Canberra), Australia
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Transforming Community, Regional, and Rural Healthcare, 12 & 13 October 2026, Mayo Civic Center - Rochester, MN, USA
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RMA26 – Rural Medicine Australia Conference, 21–24 October 2026, Tarndanya (Adelaide), Australia
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2026 Aeromed Conference, 28–30 October 2026, Darwin, Australia
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Rural Mental Health Conference 2026, 4–6 November 2026, Gold Coast, Australia
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16th National Rural & Remote Allied Health Conference (SARRAH), 9–11 November 2026, Coffs Harbour, Australia
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Rural GP Association Scotland (RGPAS) Annual Conference 2026, 20–22 November 2026, Inverness
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IAHA Indigenous Allied Health Australia National Conference, 30 November–2 December 2026, Boorloo (Perth), Australia
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BC Rural Health Conference, 28–30 May 2027, Victoria, BC, Canada
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5th International Indigenous Health and Wellbeing Conference, 8–10 June 2027, Larrakia Country, Garramilla (Darwin), Australia
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Regional, Rural and Remote Emergency Medicine Conference 2027 (ACEM RRR EM27), 18–20 July 2027, Lutruwita/Tasmania, Australia
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