Aotearoa New Zealand Immunisation Conference 2025 and pre-conference workshop

The Immunisation Advisory Centre (IMAC) is excited to announce this year’s Aotearoa New Zealand Immunisation conference and pre-conference workshop will be held at Wintec in Hamilton - Kirikiriroa.

The one-day workshop will be held on 3 September 2025, and the two-day conference on 4–5 September 2025.

Join us for an empowering and informative few days designed to bring together immunisation thought leaders, researchers, healthcare professionals and policy makers.

This event will showcase the latest advancements, strategies and data in immunisation efforts, helping to strengthen immunisation uptake.

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Conference

4 & 5 September 2025

The Conference programme will include a diverse range of topics, including:

• Improving immunisation coverage
• Vaccine confidence and communications
• Vaccine preventable and emerging diseases
• Vaccine safety and effectiveness
• Closing the equity gap

The Conference provides an excellent opportunity for researchers to present their academic research, and other delegates to present their experiences and practices related to service delivery or policy decisions.

We are excited to welcome local and international conference presenters, including these invited guests coming to New Zealand to attend the Conference:

Professor Fiona Russell is a paediatrician, epidemiologist and vaccinologist at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the University of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. Fiona has extensive experience in immunisation and child health, particularly in low- and middle-income countries. She leads the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence Pneumococcal Disease Control in Asia-Pacific. In 2026, she will become a members of World Health Organization’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation.

Associate Professor Hazel Clothier is the lead epidemiologist at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and the programme lead for post-licensure vaccinology at the Centre for Health Analytics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is also a senior epidemiologist at with the Global Vaccine Data Network (GVDN). She has extensive experience in public health, vaccine safety surveillance and communicable disease outbreak and response within Australian and Pacific programmes of health. 

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Pre-conference workshop

3 September 2025

The Workshop is aimed at those directly providing and supporting immunisation services. The national and international programme content will be relevant to vaccination practice in New Zealand.

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Registration

More information on the registration process and costs will be published soon.

We invite you to help shape the future of immunisation by submitting your proposals for an oral presentation or poster to be included in the Aotearoa New Zealand Immunisation Conference 2025 (ANZIC2025) academic programme.

Abstracts can only be submitted using this online form

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Abstract themes

• Improving immunisation coverage
• Vaccine confidence and communication
• Vaccine preventable and emerging diseases
• Vaccine safety and effectiveness
• Closing the equity gaps
• New vaccine technologies

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Oral presentation streams

1. Academic Research – for project-based qualitative or quantitative research conducted to answer key questions about immunisation and vaccine-preventable diseases. Abstracts will be required to include details on background, methods, results and conclusions.
2. Policy & Practice – to present experiences and practices related to service delivery or policy decisions. Abstracts will be required to include clear context, process, analysis and outcomes.

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ANZIC2025 Oral and poster abstract guidelines and rules for submission