The first day of the 2026 PHONZ Virtual Conference opened with a keynote address by Dr. Sam Riley, director of Spuddling Solutions UK.
02:25 - Samantha Riley: The Spuddling Epidemic (keynote address)
45:18 - James Pratt: From fragmented data to population health intelligence
1:07:46 - Helen Hughes: The evolution of syndromic surveillance in England, 1999-2026
1:29:08 - Dr Claire Sellwood Green: Child health in England and Wales
1:50:06 - Dr Dimple Chudasama: Surveillance of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance
2:14:32 - Richard Hamblin: Kiwi spuddling - a response to Samantha Riley
2:32:21 - Dr Jat Sandhu: Health intelligence in action - building a learning, preparedness-oriented Public Health system
3:01:38 - Dr Tomás León: Models and how they influence public health decision-making
3:23:10 - Ximena Camacho: From data to intelligence - meeting the evidentiary needs of health system stakeholders
3:44:04 - Dr Sanja Lujic: Lessons from the evaluation of community-based urgent care services in New South Wales
3:59:48 - Dr Jim Black: A hazard-event-vulnerability paradigm for syndromic surveillance
4:23:23 - Dr Andy Robertson: Intelligence and evidence in public health decision making
4:45:44 - Dr Mark Hanly: The Community Prevention Initiatives Dashboard (CUPID)
The second day of the 2026 PHONZ Online Conference. Though Dr Ewout van Ginneken was unable to join us on the day, his slides can be viewed here.
1:29 - Alastair 'Ally' McAlpine: How to deliver analysis that leads to impact
25:12 - Dr Kieran Zucker: AI in clinical oncology - the promise and the perils
47:35 - Nia Reeves: Population health management in practice
1:06:11 - Dr Kenyon Crowley: Agents in the wild: a smarter harness for trustworthier agents
1:33:38 - Colin Lynch: Household survey response rates
1:55:13 - Francesca Storey: Advancing equitable health - skills, roles and factors for non-indigenous peoples seeking to address racism
2:17:50 - Matt Watson, Alex Luka & Bernadine Chapendeka: Integrating health and social services
2:38:17 - Lou Wickham & Jayne Metcalfe: Health impacts and costs: indoor combustion in Aotearoa
2:53:15 - Dr Jennifer Walsh: Using national linked data assets for enhanced population health monitoring and effective health policy in Australia
3:19:00 - Prof. Tari Turner: Moving beyond living evidence
3:38:07 - Vicki Lee: Epidemiology of leukaemia in Aotearoa
3:56:38 - Dr Justin Wong: From models to preparedness decisions
4:21:03 - Prof. Barry Borman & Kylie Mason: Environmental health intelligence - beyond indicators and dashboards
4:39:22 - Sarah Alland: Epidemiological intelligence from routine surveillance data
5:00:25 - Tania McDonnell: Ko ngā matauranga e pā ana ki to hunga Kura Urupare
The third and final day of the 2026 PHONZ online conference.
01:48 - Dr Erik Sturegård: Communicable disease surveillance and control
22:41 - Isabella Tortora Brayda: Modelling heat-attributable health impacts in Scotland
45:30 - Dr Abraham George: Leadership in public health intelligence: my journey so far and key reflections
1:06:30 - Nivy Gurram - The New Zealand atlas of healthcare variation | map hauora kē
1:25:59 - Nicola King & Gillian Anderson: Vibriosis in Aotearoa New Zealand - insights from data and practice
1:48:30 - Jacob Madden: Progress on a federated data sharing model for public health in Australia
2:12:36 - Emanuele Massaro: EU action on climate and health - European Climate and Health Observatory