Tracking SARS-CoV-2 in Australia

Description: Here, I will present the experience of tracking SARS-CoV-2 in Victoria, Australia, from a public health perspective. Going over the first, and second waves, a parliamentary inquiry, and ongoing efforts to carry out national surveillance in a context of a federation of independent states. Presenter: Dr. Anders Gonçalves da Silva has PhD from Columbia University in population genetics, and is currently the senior bioinformatician and Bioinformatics Section Head at the Microbiological Diagnostic Unit Public Health Laboratory, in Melbourne, Australia. For the past five years, he has been working to deliver high quality bioinformatics solutions for public health microbiology. More recently, he has been involved in the conception and initial role out of AusTrakka, a data sharing platform to enable real-time pathogen surveillance across jurisdictional boundaries.

BC CDC Presenters

8/25/2020 7:00:00 PM