STIs in Mine Sites Webinar

This webinar will focus on strategies to tackle the issue of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in mine sites with feedback received from OHS workplace representatives across Western Australia (WA) mines.

Sexual Health Services in Perth have reported that some individuals with STIs have received ineffective and inappropriate treatments at certain mine sites in the Pilbara. Inadequate treatment can increase the risk of antibiotic resistance and the transmission of infections. In 2023, WA reported 12,885 notified cases of chlamydia (454 in the Pilbara) and 4,701 notified cases of gonorrhoea (209 in the Pilbara).

Dr Peter Connaughton - MB BCh, LRCP&SI, FACOEM, MBA, FAFOEM

Peter is a consultant occupational medicine physician with extensive experience across a wide range of industries. He undertook specialist training in occupational medicine at the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) in Edinburgh. He has been the occupational physician to Rio Tinto Iron Ore since 2008. His approach to protecting workers' health is through collaboration and teamwork to implement effective workplace strategies, as was demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Peter has been actively involved in the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (AFOEM), which included serving as the President from 2016 to 2018. His advocacy roles included serving on the Health Benefits of Good Work Executive and the Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance. He continues to drive for improved occupational health internationally in his role as the secretary of the International Occupational Medicine Society Collaborative (IOMSC). He was awarded fellowship of the American College in 2020 and received the AFOEM President’s award for Policy and Advocacy in 2010 and 2020. He is a past winner of the Deane Southgate Award.

Professor Donna Mak

Donna is a public health medicine physician at the Communicable Disease Control Directorate in the WA Department of Health and Domain Chair of Population and Preventive Health at Notre Dame University’s School of Medicine. She works clinically at the M Clinic, a sexual health clinic for gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM). Her previous work includes general practice in Fitzroy Crossing and public health medicine in the Kimberley Public Health Unit.

Dr Simon Slota-Kan

Simon is a public health medicine physician for the Pilbara and Goldfields Public Health Units in the WA Country Health Service. Before this, he was the Senior Medical Officer with Puntukurnu Aboriginal Medical Service in Newman, WA. He has endorsement for CPOP (Opiate Replacement Therapy) and as an S100 prescriber for Hepatitis B and HIV. His past experience includes remote work with the Northern Territory Government, primary care in remote communities focused on chronic disease, medical education with the RACGP and RACP, and multiple roles in the Victorian Department of Health as Medical Advisor Public Health in environmental health, communicable disease control, partner notification, food safety, and medicinal cannabis.

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