Veterinary Epidemiology @ Melbourne Think Tank seminars

For Zoom meeting details for the 2024 Epi Think Tank seminar series contact Mark Stevenson: mark.stevenson1 at unimelb.edu.au.

Epi Think Tank 2024

Date Time Format Details
Wed 17 Apr 2024 13.00 Online  
Wed 17 Apr 2024 14.00 Online Kara Dawson, LIC's Johne's Dashboard: Smarter ways of Visualising Data for Disease Mananagement on Dairy Farms.


Date Time Format Details
Wed 20 Mar 2024 13.00 Online Scott Ison, Reflections on secondment to FAO Jakarta, 2023 - 2024 (audio video).
Wed 20 Mar 2024 14.00 Online Asmat Halimi, Life as a veterinarian in Afghanistan and other challenges (audio video).


Epi Think Tank 2023

Date Time Format Details
Wed 13 Dec 2023 13.00 on In person The Clyde Hotel, 385 Cardigan Street, Carlton Victoria 3053


Date Time Format Details
Wed 18 Oct 2023 13.00 Online Michelle Renwick, Providing the most efficient Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) surveillance system for Victoria.
Wed 18 Oct 2023 14.00 Online Simon Firestone, An introduction to Tobit regression.


Date Time Format Details
Wed 20 Sep 2023 13.00 Online Andrea Britton (Ultimate Efficiency Consulting) Highly pathogenic avian influenza and lead poisoning.
Wed 20 Sep 2023 14.00 Online


Date Time Format Details
Wed 16 Aug 2023 13.00 Online Charles Caraguel (University of Adelaide) Narrative, systematic and scoping literature reviews (audio video).
Wed 16 Aug 2023 14.00 Online Peter Atkinson (University of Adelaide) Temperature directed prevention of canine heartworm (audio video).


Date Time Format Details
Wed 19 Jul 2023 13.00 Online Carolyn Benigno (Philippine College of Veterinary Epidemiologists) Philippine College of Veterinary Epidemiologists update.
Wed 19 Jul 2023 14.00 Online Ayesha Salgadu (University of Melbourne) Mycoplasma bovis diagnostic test validation.


Date Time Format Details
Wed 21 Jun 2023 13.00 Online Karyn Froud (Biosecurity Research, New Zealand) Epidemiological investigations into Kauri Dieback in New Zealand (audio video).
Wed 21 Jun 2023 14.00 Online Mieghan Bruce (Murdoch University Western Australia) Dealing with incidence and prevalence of disease with VetCompass data (audio video).


Date Time Format Details
Wed 17 May 2023 13.00 Online Emma Cuttance (EpiVets, New Zealand) Ensuring dairy cows are getting enough shade: The shade from space project.
Wed 17 May 2023 14.00 Online Ruth Zadoks (University of Sydney) Epidemiology through the eyes of a coccus, a cow, a camel and some fish.


Date Time Format Details
Wed 19 Apr 2023 13.00 Online Sophie St-Hilaire (City University Hong Kong) Aquatic epidemiology.
Wed 19 Apr 2023 14.00 Online Simon Firestone (University of Melbourne) Tools for infectious disease outbreak response.


Date Time Format Details
Wed 15 Mar 2023 13.00 Online Uttara Kennedy (University of Queensland) Gradient boosted model free-text veterinary records.
Wed 15 Mar 2023 14.00 Online Rutu Galea (University of Melbourne) Tail biting in commercially reared pigs.


Date Time Format Details
Wed 15 Feb 2023 13.00 Online Jonathon Rushton (University of Liverpool) Global burden of animal disease update.
Wed 15 Feb 2023 14.00 Online Peter Atkinson (University of Adelaide) A canine heartworm diagnostic test accuracy meta-analysis.

G71: Room G71 (opposite Kimpton theatre), Building 142, Parkville
SR1: Seminar Room 1, Pathology Wing, Werribee