Featuring a keynote address by Prof. Bev Lawton (ONZM), nō Ngāti Porou, and New Zealander of the year 2025, in which she shares some of her experiences at Te Tātai Hauora o Hine | National Centre for Women’s Health Research Aotearoa.
The conference concludes with a panel discussion on the future of health intelligence in New Zealand. The panel consists of: Dr Kristie Carter, Dr James Greenwell, Richard Hamblin, Tim Hopley, Dr Nick Jones, Dr Alex Kazemi, Dr John McCarthy, and Dr Maria Poynter.
0:00:05 - Karakia and welcome
0:01:39 - Keynote Address: Prof. Bev Lawton: Tūāpapa Māori : HPV cervical screening programme*
*Note - for confidentiality reasons, we have blurred a section of this presentation at Prof. Lawton's request. Slides (minus the redactions) are available here.
0:44:50 - Dr Paul Kavanagh: Lessons Learned And Opportunities Ahead - Health Information As A Health System Asset For The Public Good In Ireland
1:12:30 - Aaron Gorman: The Population Health Model For Northern Ireland
1:37:11 - Dr Shaun Grannis: Using emerging AI techniques for real-world healthcare applications
2:13:35 - Dr Kenyon Crowley: The Human + AI Public Health Workforce: Core Components for Public Health Reinvention
2:40:46 - Dr Mark Jacobs: Surveillance in the Pacific
3:10:52 - Midday Discussion: The audience's thoughts on AI
3:29:17 - Dr Vithya Yogarajan: Socially responsible and fair AI in Healthcare Applications in New Zealand
3:48:42 - Dr Cheng Kai Jin: The Use of AI in Health New Zealand: Current Applications, Future Directions, and Lessons Learnt
4:08:08 - Pedro Ramirez: The Public Service AI Work Programme
4:30:12 - Dr Sidong Liu: Generative Artificial Intelligence for Synthetic Medical Imaging
4:56:26 - Rooshan Ghous: Long-Term Survival Insights Using Explainable AI: Role of DCIS in Invasive Breast Cancer
5:19:31 - Final Discussion
5:40:22 - Closing Remarks
0:00:05 - Welcome and karakia
0:01:27 - Dr Esther Hamblion: The role of WHO’s Public Health Intelligence activities in enhancing global health security
0:24:40 - Andre Fideli & Louis Molloy: Designing with Purpose: A User-Led Dashboard for Primary Care Clusters in Wales
0:49:24 - Lennie Lindberg: Health Intelligence in Action from a Swedish Perspective
1:05:40 - Prof. Heather McLeod & Matt Halstead: Climate Projections for Geographies that are Meaningful for Healthcare
1:43:48 - Dr Sarah Jefferies: A One Health approach to pathogenic genomic surveillance in Aotearoa New Zealand
*Note: At Dr Jefferies' request, we have redacted some slides for confidentiality reasons.
2:08:05 - Dr Andrew Anglemeyer: Invasive Pneumococcal Disease in New Zealand: Impact of a Changing Childhood Vaccine Schedule
2:33:05 - Dr Hannah Cooper: Epidemiology of invasive meningococcal disease in New Zealand in the first two years after the introduction of Bexsero to the childhood immunisation schedule
3:02:25 - Dr Kerry Sexton: Reporting Standards for Immunisations
3:25:32 - Michelle Gourley: Burden of disease for policy decisions: insights from Australia
3:53:25 - Jacob Madden: The development of a Public Health Data Network: Australia’s experience
4:16:35 - Prof. Michelle Haby: What is “health intelligence” and is it synonymous with “evidence-informed decision making”?
4:46:42 - Closing remarks
0:00:05 - Welcome & karakia
0:01:27 - Victoria Elliot: Introduction to the Scottish Public Health Observatory (ScotPHO) collaboration
0:24:45 - Dr David McVea: Surveillance Of Climate-Related Environmental Hazards In British Columbia, Canada
0:48:20 - Dr Fiona Callaghan: Infectious Disease Modelling Capability at the NZ PHA
1:11:48 - Dr Gary Jackson: Hospital service demand: a population health view
1:47:17 - Dr Johnathan Chua: A Behavioural Insights approach to inform public health intervention - attitudes and behaviours
2:09:11 - Dr Anja Mizdrak: Using Google Maps data for public health research: an honest feasibility assessment
2:34:20 - Peter Himona: Māori Data Sovereignty and Governance in the health sector
2:55:41 - Dr Lynn Riggs: Overview of Economic Evaluation
3:17:05 - Panel discussion: The Future of Health Intelligence in NZ
4:09:11 - Closing remarks