MacFarlane Burnet Oration


Professor Carlos Seas 

Dr. Carlos Seas Ramos is a Peruvian physician who graduated from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, where he completed residencies and fellowships in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine. He also received clinical research training at the International Center for Diarrheal Diseases Research in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

He is a Professor of Medicine at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, a former Chief of the Department of Medicine, Gorgas Diploma Course Director, Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Subdirector of the Alexander von Humboldt Tropical Medicine Institute. He is a member of the Peruvian Academy of Medicine and several Latin American societies and has served for 12 years on DSMBs of the National Institutes of Health, USA. 

His research interests include tuberculosis, cholera, shigellosis, hospital-acquired infections, and S. aureus bacteremia. He has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications and contributed several chapters to textbooks, including Cecil’s Medicine, Conn’s Current Therapy, and Mandell’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases. He is an Associate Editor of Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Epidemiology and Infection, and BMC Infectious Diseases.


International Speakers


Dr Dashika Balak

Dr Dashika Anshu Balak is a Principal Medical Officer in the Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV Unit at Fiji’s Ministry of Health and Medical Services. She leads the Treatment, Care and Support Committee under the National HIV Outbreak and Cluster Response Taskforce, advancing integrated, evidence-based, people-centred HIV, BBV, STI and SRH services across Fiji.




Professor Moses Laman

Prof Moses Laman graduated as a medical officer from the University of Papua New Guinea in 2005 and obtained his PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2015. He originally trained in paediatrics before joining the PNG Institute of Medical Research as a Clinical Research Fellow. He is currently the Deputy Director of the PNG Institute of Medical Research. Moses has over 20 years of experience in leading many clinical and epidemiological studies on malaria and childhood infections in PNG. His understanding of the Melanesian culture, perspectives and relationships has been instrumental to the success of many programs of research in PNG and the Pacific region. In his current role, Moses continues to enable a conducive research environment for many programs of work that have led to informing decision-making and policy in PNG. 






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