Workshop 1: Driving higher vaccination rates
| Friday, May 30, 2025 |
| 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM |
Details
This workshop will explore strategies to enhance overall vaccination rates, specifically focusing on HPV, pertussis, RSV, shingles, and pneumococcal diseases. Participants will review current trends in vaccination efforts and learn how to utilise community partnerships to expand their reach. The discussion will also cover communication techniques to combat vaccine hesitancy and detail practical approaches to optimise the vaccination process for these key immunisations.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify vaccination trends for HPV, Pertussis, RSV, Shingles, and Pneumococcal vaccines.
- Discuss targeted outreach strategies to increase vaccine uptake in at-risk populations.
- Describe communication strategies to reduce vaccine hesitancy.
Competency standards (2016): 1.6, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 3.6
Speaker
Peter Guthrey
Senior Pharmacist | Strategy Policy
PSA
Workshop | Driving Higher Vaccination Rates
Biography
Peter Guthrey holds the position of Senior Pharmacist, Strategic Policy at the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
Peter supports policy development, advocacy activities, media, regulatory submissions and practice advice.
Peter has driven key PSA policy work, including Pharmacists in 2023, Pharmacists in 2030 and PSA's medicine safety agenda, including PSA's flagship Medicine Safety report series.
Peter has over 17 years’ experience in pharmacy policy, regulation, advocacy, quality management and community pharmacy practice.
Peter maintains practice as a community pharmacist, working after-hours at Melbourne’s Ascot Vale Pharmacy.
