“Chlamydia and Trachoma – Will they ever disappear?”

Melbourne Laureate Professor Hugh R Taylor AC head of Indigenous Eye Health at the University of Melbourne recently delivered a lecture on “Chlamydia and Trachoma – Will they ever disappear?” at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Healt

The lecture is spilt into three parts:

1. Chlamydia and Trachoma (21:37 minutes)
   1. History
   2. Epidemiology
   3. Distribution
   4. Detection
   5. Grading
   6. Immunology
   7. Pathology
2. Trachoma (9:01 minutes)
   1. Global efforts to eliminate trachoma
   2. Antibiotics
   3. Mapping
   4. Distribution
   5. Elimination
3. IEH’s work in eliminating Trachoma in Australia and questions (25:26 minutes)
   1. History
   2. Prevalence
   3. Work to eliminate trachoma
   4. SAFE strategy in Australian context
   5. Housing and education
   6. Health promotion
   7. Trichiasis
   8. Questions – Trachoma before colonisation, flies and immunity