AMREP Global Health Seminar Series

Date: Thursday, 20th August 2009

Time: 4:00-5:00pm

Venue: AMREP Seminar Room, AMREP Education Centre, Alfred Hospital, Commercial Rd, Melbourne

Letting men in: engaging men in sexual, reproductive, maternal and child health in Asia and the Pacific

Presenter: Dr Wendy Holmes, Deputy Director, Burnet Institute 

Dr. Wendy Holmes is a public health physician with special interests in women's and children's health, sexual and reproductive health, health of older people, HIV prevention and care, particularly in relation to parent to child transmission of HIV (PTCT of HIV), policy development, and participatory methods for teaching and gathering information.  She has worked in community health in remote Aboriginal communities in central Australia, in Zimbabwe, and in the Victorian Aboriginal community, the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service including children’s and adolescents’ health research, and as WHO Lecturer at the Key Centre for Women’s Health, University of Melbourne.

Since 1997 her work at the Burnet Institute has included Project Director and Technical Adviser roles on bilateral and NGO projects in Indonesia, China (Tibet AR), Lao PDR, India, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe.  She has undertaken consultancies in project identification, design, and evaluation, and policy development for AusAID, UNICEF, WHO, and international NGOs.  She has conducted numerous training workshops and prepared teaching slide sets for TALC and a manual for the International Rescue Committee on incorporating HIV prevention and care interventions in refugee settings. 

Wendy is the Principal for the Women and Children’s Health Knowledge Hub – a collaboration with the Menzies School of Health Research and the Centre for International Child Health, University of Melbourne.  She has worked with UNICEF for several years reviewing strategy for prevention and care in relation to PTCT of HIV in the South Asian, South-East Asian and Pacific regions and has attended the meetings of the UN Asia-Pacific Regional Task Force on PMTCT of HIV as an invited resource person.

For more details, please contact Emma Frean:

Emma.Frean@med.monash.edu.au

All are welcome.