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A/Prof Nicholas Wood

Staff Specialist General Paediatrician; Associate Director, National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance
A/Prof Wood is a staff specialist general paediatrician and Associate Professor and Sub-Dean (Postgraduate Research) in the Discipline of Child and Adolescent Health at the University of Sydney. He is also the Associate Director at National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance. He holds an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship. He leads the NSW Immunisation Specialist Service and coordinates the Immunisation Adverse Events Clinic at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead. He is interested in maternal and neonatal immunisation, as well as research into vaccine safety and the genetics of adverse events.

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Monkeypox Update

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Under-40s can ask their GP for an AstraZeneca shot. What’s changed? What are the risks? Are there benefits?

Pfizer remains the “preferred” vaccine for Australians aged under 40, due to a small but real increased risk of a rare clotting disorder.

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COVID Update – The Delta Variant, Pfizer Myocarditis, Hesitancy Strategies and Other Developments – Lecture

The recent outbreaks and clusters in Australia primarily due to the Delta variant.

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COVID update – Delta crisis update, new ATAGI advice, vaccination for children & pregnant women – Lecture

Clarification surrounding the confusion on the COVID vaccines - what is the latest recommendation on the jab intervals, age range for AZ vaccine, and the risk-benefit considerations, and which vaccine works against which variant.

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Under-12s are increasingly catching COVID-19. How sick are they getting and when will we be able to vaccinate them?

In July Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) provisionally approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for kids aged 12-15.

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COVID update – Vaccination for teens and children, moderna update, medical exemption, new indemnity scheme, booster doses, living with COVID

Update on the COVID vaccination for teens and children, schools transmission, vaccine safety data, Moderna vaccine, medical exemption and the new indemnity scheme as well as booster doses.

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COVID update – Third dose, TGA advice on overseas vaccines, teens vaccine safety data, merck and molnupiravir, vaccine exemption, living with COVID

In this Healthed webcast, A/Prof Nicholas Wood provided an overview of the recommendations on the use of a 3rd dose vaccine.

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COVID Update – Variants, long COVID and safety of boosters

Current burden and variants, long COVID and vaccines, and COVID vaccine boosters - effectiveness and safety and the need for a 4th dose

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Monkeypox Update

Transmission can occur via respiratory droplets and aerosols, close contact with bodily fluids, lesions and fomites. Diagnosis of a Monkeypox rash – When to suspect and where to go from there

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COVID update – Ba5 wave & more

Omicron sub-variants, antivirals, reinfection, and COVID epidemiology

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Influenza, Monkeypox and other vaccine preventable diseases

Managing Influenza and reducing co-infection. Plus the safety and effectiveness of the flu vaccine when given with a covid vaccine

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