Online event. Zoom link will be sent to the registered email addresses prior to the session.

Thursday, 3 June 2021:

• 6:30PM – 7:30PM (Main session in English, Professor Benjamin Cowie will deliver 15 mins presentation, and 45 mins Q&A);
• 7:30PM – 8:00PM (Community discussion in Chinese, Mandarin-speaking). Dr Steven Lu will answer questions in Mandarin.

Please email (to cccav.committee@gmail.com) your questions in advance for them to be answered at the session.

Presenter: Professor Benjamin Cowie

Senior Medical Advisor, Executive Director - Engagement and Partnerships, COVID-19 Immunisation Program, Department of Health.

“Professor Benjamin Cowie is an infectious diseases physician and epidemiologist at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, and the Director of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Viral Hepatitis at the Doherty Institute. In addition, Ben is a medical epidemiologist with Communicable Disease Epidemiology and Surveillance, Victorian Department of Health. He serves on a range of communicable disease, clinical and public health committees at state, national and international levels. From January 2021, Ben has been seconded full time to the Victorian Department of Health to support the implementation of the COVID-19 Immunisation Program as Executive Director, Engagement and Partnerships.”

Discussion in Mandarin: Dr Steven Lu

Dr Steven Lu graduated medical school with honours from Monash University, and has been practising as a specialist general practitioner since attaining his fellowship with the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners. He also holds a Diploma in Child Health from the University of Sydney. He has a special clinical interest in preventative health, adolescent health, complex medical conditions, and geriatric medicine. Steven consults fluently in Mandarin. 呂醫生可以用國語問診。

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澳洲雪梨大學醫學院兒科文憑

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Community Information Resources:

1. Resource in Chinese developed by Victorian Department of Health

• https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/covid-19-vaccine-simplified-chinese (Simplified Chinese)
• https://www.coronavirus.vic.gov.au/covid-19-vaccine-traditional-chinese (Traditional Chinese)

2. Resource in Chinese developed by Commonwealth Government

• https://www.health.gov.au/node/18290 (Simplified Chinese)
• https://www.health.gov.au/node/18242 (Traditional Chinese)

3. Consumer factsheets

• AstraZeneca Vaccine (阿斯利康新冠疫苗), Chinese, Simplified - 简体中文 updated on 21 April 2021 :

https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publication/information-on-covid-19-astrzeneca-vaccine-chinese-simplified

• AstraZeneca Vaccine (阿斯利康COVID-19疫苗), Chinese, Traditional - 繁體中文 updated on 21 April 2021 : https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publication/information-on-covid-19-astrzeneca-vaccine-traditional-chinese

• Pfizer (Comirnaty) vaccine (辉瑞新冠疫苗), Chinese, Simplified - 简体中文 updated on 22 April 2021 : https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publication/information-on-pfizer-vaccine-chinese-simplified

• Pfizer (Comirnaty) vaccine (COVID-19輝瑞(Comirnaty)疫苗), Chinese, Traditional - 繁體中文 updated on 22 April 2021 : https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publication/information-on-pfizer-vaccine-chinese-traditional

4. Full-list of COVID-19 related health information resources in Chinese on Health Translations

• 简体中文(Simplified Chinese): https://www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcht.nsf/PresentMultilingualResourceByTopic?Open&x=Coronavirus&s=Chinese_(Simplified)

• 繁體中文(Traditional Chinese) : https://www.healthtranslations.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcht.nsf/PresentMultilingualResourceByTopic?Open&x=Coronavirus&s=Chinese_(Traditional)