Royal North Shore Hospital Clinical Nurse Consultant Elsa Chu has recently had her poster accepted and presented at The World Hepatitis Summit 2022.

Elsa’s poster is themed around post-vaccination serological outcomes for infants born to women infected with hepatitis B. 

The poster has been presented and accepted in four conferences throughout 2021 and 2022.

Elsa said her motivation for constructing the poster was her passion for helping raise awareness of the hepatitis B vaccine to inhibit the spreading of the disease.

“No woman should have to live with the lifetime of guilt from having passed on hepatitis B to their child,” she said.

“We know the prevention of mother-to-child transmission is crucial in reducing the incidence of hepatitis B and can be achieved through maternal antiviral therapy and postnatal active and passive immunisation.”

Elsa is committed to the global fight against viral hepatitis and wants to play her role in helping eliminate the disease.

“I always want to be at the forefront of the global fight against viral hepatitis, and I intend to play a key role in the historic elimination of the disease,” she said.