Vanessa Sparke RN is an experienced clinician and educator. Vanessa has over 30 years of nursing experience, including 17 years in infection prevention and control (IPC) in Australian metropolitan, rural and educational settings, and in Pacific Island countries. Vanessa is also a registered nurse in the Solomon Islands and is working with a rural Solomon Island hospital to help improve their IPC practices, where she is currently completing her PhD.

Vanessa is the course coordinator and senior lecturer for James Cook University’s Graduate Certificate of Infection Control, a member of the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control Education Committee and a co-director for the Collaborative for the Advancement of Infection Prevention and Control.

Website: ttps://research.jcu.edu.au/portfolio/vanessa.sparke1/
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-0410-9743

Dr Sandro Sperandei has a bachelor of science in statistics with honours from the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), Brazil, a double degree in sports science and physical education with honours, also from UERJ, a master’s degree by research in biomedical engineering (UFRJ) and a PhD in Computational Biology and Systems completed at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil. He has over 15 years of experience in research data analysis, with a focus on health related data. Currently, Sandro is involved with research on marginalised and hard-to-reach populations and mental health and suicide prevention.

Website: www.researchgate.net/profile/Sandro-Sperandei
http://lattes.cnpq.br/9495588211962753
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5367-3397

Dr Fernando Spilki is a professor at Feevale University, Novo Hamburgo, Brazil. His research topics are focused on viruses causing relevant diseases in domestic and wild animals, emerging zoonotic viruses, SARS-CoV-2, viral contaminants of water and food.

Research interests: One health; viruses with zoonotic potential

Collaboration ideas: Bilateral collaboration and capacity building in surveillance systems for possible new agents with zoonotic potential in wild and domestic animal species, surveillance of possible leap episodes of SARS-CoV-2 to other animal species.

Website: https://publons.com/researcher/318027/fernando-spilki/

Fernando is one of the three Brazilian convenors at the 2021 Australia–Brazil Virtual Research Collaboration event.

Presentation topic at thematic session 2C:
One Health - present initiatives in Brazil

Abstract: An overview of the main ongoing initiatives in Brazil for surveillance of new agents with zoonotic potential in wild and domestic animal species will be presented, as well as the surveillance of episodes of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to other animal species.

Dr Airton Tetelbom Stein is a Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) productivity scholar. He has a degree in medicine, residency in family and community medicine, a master in medicine (medical sciences) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1989, a master in community health for developing countries from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, in 1990 and completed PhD in medicine (medical sciences) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in 1998. He held the activity of a pro-rector of research and graduate studies at the Federal University of Health Sciences of Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Brazil, from April 2017 to April 2019. Airton is currently an advisor for Internationalization and a full professor of collective health at the UFCSPA. He has experience in the area of collective health, with an emphasis on epidemiology, working mainly on the following topics: epidemiology of chronic diseases, primary health care, health service evaluation, evidence-based medicine and implementation of clinical guidelines. Airton held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Cochrane Group at the University of Oxford, UK, and the University of Oslo, Norway, from February to July 2016, with a grant from the CNPq.

Research interests: evidence-based medicine; guidelines; primary health care

Collaboration ideas: Research in developing countries faces major challenges, such as funding difficulties and scarcity of installed capacity and the research presented, which is the doctorate of a student of the health sciences course at UFCSPA, will make it possible to develop an innovative model of care in hybrid prenatal care and structure its implementation. The knowledge translation in the research must offer a contribution to society and, for this, the research must be trustworthy and reliable. I am involved in the Guideline International Network and have good contacts with colleagues from the University of Adelaide - Joanna Briggs Institute and I am sure will strengthen this collaboration further through the Australia–Brazil Virtual Research Collaboration event.

Website: https://www.ufcspa.edu.br/pesquisa-e-inovacao/pesquisadores/105-pesquisa-e-inovacao/pesquisadores/490-airton-tetelbom-stein-phd
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8756-8699

Docente do Departamento de Medicina Comunitária da Universidade Federal do Piauí (UFPI). Docente do Mestrado Profissional em Saúde da Família / RENASF / Nucleadora UFPI. Docente do Mestrado Profissional em Saúde da Família / PROFSAUDE / Nucleadora UFPI. Doutor em Saúde Coletiva pela Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC (2016). Especialista em Docência na Saúde pelo Núcleo de Educação, Avaliação e Produção Pedagógica em Saúde - EducaSaúde, da Escola de Enfermagem, da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS (2015). Mestre em Biotecnologia pela Universidade Federal do Ceará - UFC Campus Sobral (2010), Especialista em Gestão de Serviços de Saúde pela Escola de Saúde Pública do Ceará - ESP-CE (2010), Especialista em Auditoria pela ABO-Secção Ceará (2007), Especialista com caráter de residência em Saúde da Família pela EFSFVS (2002), Graduado em Odontologia pela UFPI (2001).

Research interests: saúde coletiva

Collaboration ideas: Apoio técnico para a realização de pesquisas multicêntricas, treinamento da equipe de trabalho, produção e disseminação de conhecimento e apoio para a realização de eventos.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7236-5541

Dr Gabriela Tonini Peterle has a bachelor in biological sciences from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES). Gabriela also has a master degree and PhD in health biotechnology from UFES, in partnership with the Northeast Biotechnology Network (RENORBIO). She is a visitor PhD student at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, with PDSE-CAPES scholarship. Gabriela completed a post-doctorate in health biotechnology/molecular pathology at UFES.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7735-936X

Dr Koushik Venkatesan received his PhD in 2004 at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, under the supervision of Professor Heinz Berke. Following his postdoctoral stay with Professor Timothy M Swager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US, from 2004 to 2007, he began his independent career as a group leader at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, in 2008. In 2017, he moved to Macquarie University, Australia, as an associate professor. His research interests are broadly focused on organic and organometallic materials for molecular electronics and optoelectronic applications, and developing new sensor platforms for the detection of biological and environmental relevant analytes.

Research interests: developing diagnostic tools for monitoring and tracking the progress of long COVID

Collaboration ideas: COVID-19 has caused significant loss of human lives around the world. Health outcomes COVID-10 post-infection vary significantly, with nearly 20 per cent suffering various health issues arising from long COVID. Studies have shown that patients with long COVID suffer from loss of lung, heart and cognition function. We are looking to develop tools to monitor the onset and progress of long COVID in patients in resource-limited settings through deploying wearable sensors that are cost effective. We expect this to allow delivery of timely interventions and lower the pressure on the health system.

Website: https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/koushik-venkatesan/projects/
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3046-2017

Dr Rosilene Ventura Ribeiro is an early-career researcher and has had a highly productive career to date, publishing 26 papers in high-profile peer-reviewed international journals, and has an h-index of 9, an i10-index of 8 and 283 citations. She has 10 years of experience in the field of nutrition, firstly as a community and clinical dietitian, then as a nutritional epidemiologist and most recently in nutritional research. Rosilene is a Dietitians Association of Australia-accredited nutritionist and accredited practice dietitian and a member of the Ageing and Alzheimer’s Institute, the Australian Research Council, Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research and the Centre for Education and Research on Ageing. Rosilene’s career goal is to help significantly reduce morbidity in the elderly population through targeted nutritional interventions.

Website: www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/rosie-ribeiro.html
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8312-185X

Dr Bruno Vizzotto graduated in pharmacy from Franciscan University (UFN), completed masters in pharmaceutical sciences at the Federal University of Paraná State and a doctorate in biological sciences: toxicological biochemistry at Federal University of Santa Maria, in Brazil. He is a professor in pharmacy, biomedicine and medicine graduation courses at UFN developing teaching and research activities involving biotechnology, microbiology and molecular biology.

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6819-4081

Professor Sandra von Zeidler graduated in dentistry from the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES) in 1996 and did her master in science (microbiology) from the University of São Paulo in 1999, from Brazil. She got her PhD in oral medicine, also from the University of São Paulo in 2003 and post-doctorate from the School of Cancer Sciences at University of Birmingham, UK.

Sandra is an associate professor at the Department of Pathology, Health Sciences Center, UFES, Brazil. She is also coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Biotechnology at UFES and a researcher at the Prevention and Early Detection of Oral Cancer Program at Hospital Santa Rita, reference in Oncology. Sandra is also a member of the Scientific Initiation Committee at UFES. She works in the field of oral medicine and pathology, with emphasis on the study of molecular markers for diagnosis and prognosis in head and neck cancer.

Research interests: biomarkers; head and neck cancer

Collaboration ideas: To develop research related to management protocols for cancer patients during a pandemic period and the impacts of the dissemination of the new coronavirus in cancer care and patients’ prognostic and quality of life.

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8897-5747
Lattes ID: 5785612863130498