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Toole, Michael

Prof Michael Toole AM

Infectious Disease Expert; Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute; Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University
Prof Michael Toole has 35 years experience working in the health sector in low-income countries in Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. He is a medical epidemiologist and public health physician, with expertise in maternal and child health, including nutrition; communicable diseases control, including HIV prevention and care; primary health care program design and evaluation; sexual and reproductive health; and public health in conflict-affected and refugee populations.

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COVID Update – Third Wave, Reinfection Rethink, Booster News, Influenza Outbreak & More

New 3rd booster guidelines from ATAGI, Omicron is changing and there are serious implications and we need to ramp up preventive measures to tackle this new wave more effectively

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COVID Update – Are we past the peak?

Trends of new cases, hospitalisations and deaths- mask mandates will help but the political leaders don’t want to do it.

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COVID surge update, booster news, new vaccine and more

Entering a new wave driven by a soup of Omicron sub-variants, where more than 5 million Australians eligible for boosters have not received them, and how we must encourage patients to get their boosters, with the bivalent vaccines being more effective

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COVID 4th wave, boosters, long COVID crisis?

The 4th wave, booster advice, Christmas forecasting - will the current wave be over soon?, the scale and impact of the anticipated long COVID crisis

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COVID update – The bivalent jab, new booster advice, long COVID, Strep A and more

Booster advice- get it every 6 months, the bivalent vaccines in practice

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Three years into the pandemic, it’s clear COVID won’t fix itself. Here’s what we need to focus on next

On March 11 2020 the World Health Organization classified COVID as a pandemic. Three years on, it remains just that.

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Cardiac Electrophysiologist; The Royal Adelaide Hospital; Clinical Professor, The University of Adelaide

Hear the latest evidence-based management options for POTS - a common, yet poorly recognised and misunderstood autonomic dysfunction condition in our community. Join Prof Dennis Lau for an update on POTS, who is at risk, presenting symptoms and how it can be diagnosed in the primary care setting.

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