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How does an expert on wheat production even be considered for a top job approving therapeutic drugs for humans?
Maybe it is similar to how a dentist and former terrorist gets to head up the world health organization and they wonder why people are not willingly injected with an experimental gene therapy. Could it be because it clearly does not work, you still get it, you still spread it and you can still die ffrom it. Then there is the fact that they are not reporting adverse effects and discounting many as not a result of the j@b.
I feel it is like a school of sharks at the waters edge, smiling and saying come for a swim with us, you will be perfectly safe. ????????????????????

The Therapeutic Goods Administration is part of the Health Products Regulation Group (HPRG) in the Australian Government Department of Health(link is external).
HPRG includes the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and the Office of Drug Control (ODC).

The HPRG Executive is:
Deputy Secretary, Adjunct Prof John Skerritt
Principal Legal and Policy Adviser, Jenny Francis
First Assistant Secretary, Medicines Regulation Division, Dr Jane Cook
First Assistant Secretary, Medical Devices and Product Quality Division, Tracey Duffy
First Assistant Secretary Regulatory Practice and Support Division, Gillian Mitchell

So that good decisions are made, the TGA employs Medical Officers who hold Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency(link is external) registration, scientists, pharmacists and other highly qualified and experienced staff. The TGA also has access to independent expert advice via a number of advisory committees, which provides the TGA with access to Australia’s most eminent and respected clinical and scientific experts.The TGA’s statutory advisory committees are established under Part 6 of the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990(link is external) (the Regulations).
There are currently seven statutory advisory committees that provide independent expert advice on specific scientific and technical matters. The majority of committee members are appointed by the Minister (some specific members are determined by the relevant State and Territory jurisdictions) and must have expertise in relevant clinical or scientific fields or appropriate consumer health issues.
https://www.tga.gov.au/structure#tga
https://www.tga.gov.au/tga-statutory-advisory-committees
https://www.tga.gov.au/other-committees

The Advisory Committee on Vaccines (ACV) provides independent medical and scientific advice to the Minister for Health and the Therapeutic Goods Administration on issues relating to the safety, quality and efficacy of vaccines supplied in Australia including issues relating to pre-market assessment, post-market monitoring and safe use in national immunisation programs.

The Committee is established under Regulation 39F of the Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 and the members are appointed by the Minister for Health.

The ACV was established in January 2017, following consolidation of previous functions of the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Vaccines (ACSOV) and the pre-market functions for vaccines of the Advisory Committee on Prescription Medicines (ACPM).

Membership comprises professionals with expertise in specific scientific, medical or clinical fields, or consumer health issues.

Membership
Chair
Professor Allen Cheng is an infectious diseases physician. His current appointments are as Director, Infection Prevention and Healthcare Epidemiology at Alfred Health, Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine at Monash University, and as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Menzies School of Health Research. Professor Cheng has diverse clinical experience in metropolitan and regional hospitals in Australia and internationally, and research interests in clinical infectious diseases, tropical medicine and influenza epidemiology. His PhD thesis was on the bacterial disease melioidosis. Professor Cheng is the Vice-President of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He is currently a co-chair of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI). Professor Cheng provides expertise in the field of infectious diseases in adults and children.

Members
Professor Jim Buttery is a specialist paediatric infectious diseases clinician. Professor Buttery serves as the Head of Epidemiology and Surveillance for SAEFVIC and the head of Monash Immunisation at Monash Health, as well as head of the Department of Infection and Immunity at Monash Children’s Hospital. He is currently serving on the Victorian Immunisation Advisory Committee and is a member of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of the Global Vaccine Safety Initiative. In October 2020, he will take up the inaugural Chair in Child Health Informatics at the University of Melbourne. Professor Buttery provides expertise in infectious diseases in children, epidemiology, vaccine program implementation, and paediatrics.

Dr Jeanine Bygott is a medical practitioner with a specialty in microbiology and experience in travel medicine clinics in Australia and Ireland. Currently a consultant medical microbiologist at Sullivan Nicolaides Pathology, a private pathology laboratory in Queensland, she provides advice to general practitioners on the administration of vaccines. She has completed a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and a Diploma Course in Vaccinology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Pathologists in medical microbiology and virology. Dr Bygott provides expertise in bacteriology, virology, and the provision of immunisation treatment by an individual.

Associate Professor Rosemary Ffrench is a Principal Fellow at the Burnet Institute, and a consultant to the World Health Organization on maintaining laboratory capacity in emergency settings. Her academic appointment at Monash University includes lecturing on vaccines, infectious diseases and immunology. She has published extensively on human immunity and vaccine development and holds a patent for the MicroCube vaccine platform. Associate Professor Ffrench provides expertise in immunology, diagnostics and vaccine development.

Ms Madeline Hall is a Nurse Practitioner specialising in vaccine preventable diseases with a special interest in vaccine safety. She has extensive experience in vaccine preventable diseases and is involved in advanced health assessments and risk screening of adults with specific vaccination requirements, such as persons who have had a previous serious or unexpected adverse event following immunisation, immuno-compromised persons, and those at occupational risk. Ms Hall is a member of ATAGI and a member of the Adverse Events Following Immunisation – Clinical Assessment Network. Ms Hall provides expertise in the fields of provision of immunisation treatment by an individual and nursing.

Professor Kristine Macartney is the Director of the National Centre for Immunisation Research & Surveillance, a paediatric infectious diseases specialist at The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, and Professor in the Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney. Her doctoral thesis was on rotavirus infection and mucosal immunity. She is the senior technical editor of the Australian Immunisation Handbook and has research interests in viral vaccine preventable diseases, vaccine safety and policy-making. Professor Macartney served on the Advisory Committee on the Safety of Vaccines throughout its period of operation. Professor Macartney provides expertise in the fields of vaccinology, adverse events surveillance, infectious diseases, virology, epidemiology and paediatrics.

Professor Lisa Nissen is the Head of the School of Clinical Sciences at the Queensland University of Technology. A registered pharmacist, Professor Nissen was the chair of the Queensland Pharmacists Immunisation Pilot and the research leader for the evaluation of the pilot implementation, tasked with ensuring that the training development was fit for purpose and that the data collected included safety outcomes. She worked with the Australian Pharmacy Council to develop accreditation standards for the vaccination training programs for pharmacists. Her research interests include the quality use of medicines and the factors that influence prescribing. Professor Nissen provides expertise in vaccine program implementation.

Dr Vicky Sheppeard is a public health physician specialising in communicable disease control. As Director of the Communicable Diseases Branch, NSW she delivered new immunisation programs, responded to emerging infectious disease threats, and adopted innovative technologies. Dr Sheppeard has also served as the NSW representative on Communicable Disease Network Australia and deputy chair of the National Immunisation Committee. Dr Vicky Sheppeard provides expertise in the fields of communicable disease control in adults and children and vaccine program implementation.

Associate Professor Adrienne Torda is a physician specialising in infectious diseases. She is a senior staff specialist in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney. She has a PhD, a Graduate Diploma of Bioethics, is an Associate Fellow of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Health Professional Educators and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests include translational research topics such as vaccine coverage in vulnerable populations and diabetic foot infections. She is involved in a number of medical education research projects, examining the impact of educational innovations in medicine. From 2004 to 2007 she was a member of the National Influenza Pandemic Committee. Associate Professor Torda provides expertise in infectious diseases in adults and children.

Ms Diane Walsh is the Deputy Chair of the Board of the Northern Territory Primary Health Network (PHN) and is currently on the Advisory Group of the PHN Immunisation Support Program. She previously served as the chair of the Top End Division of General Practice Board of Management for over 10 years, and has been a member of the Northern Territory Medical Board, the management committee of Health Consumers of Rural and Remote Australia, and the National Medicines Policy Committee. Ms Walsh provided the consumer perspective on the statutory Therapeutic Goods Committee, including on medicine labelling. She has worked as a school teacher and operated a small business. Ms Walsh provides expertise in health issues from the consumer perspective.

The scale and impact of this global program is staggering.

The exceedingly vast magnitude of profit, and the scale of societal transformation, is also unquestionable.

Therefore these appointed professionals involved (across the board) must be subject to rigorous scrutiny regarding conflicts of interests, and past & present relations with the beneficiaries, including Pharma, BMGF, and GAVI to name a few. Not to mention any investments that could compromise their judgement.

It’s one thing to provide a long list of credentials, but are any, or all, of them bought and paid for?

Their past or present research funding or otherwise? – especially if they have side gigs, board positions, and affiliations, etc.

That information should be a national priority to reassure the public.

The ABC and the rest of the media are clearly imbued with a very unhealthy bias in my view, so you can’t rely on traditional journalism, whilst potentially suffering from the same conflicts of interest.

These individuals are making decisions that will have profound implications for humanities well being, and the future of our collective immune resilience, and integrity, for generations to come.

Before you swallow this article loaded with misinformation by the celebrated anti-vaxxer Monica Smit consider just one bit of misinformation she offers from Dr John Carlisle promoting Ivermectin…
https://youtu.be/H95VCYLBh-A

Ivermectin is safe and it was approved by the FDA in the U.S. back in the 1970’s. It is an excellent anti-viral & has proven its effectiveness with Covid 19. It’s over the counter availability & safety, created a problem w/ FDA approving the Covid vaccines for Emergency Use. One of the rules is that there can’t be an equally effective medicine available for treatment. Ivermectin was THAT medicine. Safe, effective, and available – and cheap. ( everything Big Pharma feared). So, they pushed to have Ivermectin redacted from all the safety studies and anything that showed it’s positive use. They forced FDA to not allow dr.s to prescribe it for Covid, even though it was approved for safety in human use. ( even for pregnant women) This was unprecedented over-reach by FDA, to instruct Dr.s how to practice medicine. Many countries use Ivermectin as a preventative for Covid with excellent results.. it is not available in the U.S. without a prescription. Doctors are threatened with formal discipline and could lose their license if they prescribe this safe medicine to treat their patients with Covid. Absolutely criminal that the FDA did this and they will soon have to answer to that decision. It is a huge international scandal that has our government, media, agencies, etc. all aligned to push these vaccines- regardless of their obvious ineffectiveness & numerous negative side effects. Booster shots are equally poisonous. Ivermectin is a miracle drug & denying it works has killed millions of innocent people internationally. I hope the money and power that the Covid vaccine brought to these evil humans made it worth it. We, in America, and I’m sure worldwide, will NEVER forget the harms this vaccine has caused our world. Deaths have increased for every nation that pushed these poison shots on their citizens. No more! We will not comply & it’s time to push back hard! Bill Gates & Tony Fauci & many more will be brought to justice and their money will end up being their only friend. Evil people die alone and history will not remember them as inspirational leaders. They will be written into history as ruthless , egotistical, narcissists that put profit over people. They are working to control our nation by genocide but they didn’t realize that the human spirit, is built by someone that will always be more powerful , more intelligent, & more loving. That combination is power beyond belief & it comes from God. We are in a spiritual war but the good news is our God has never lost a battle. Ever. He is not flinching or afraid of what’s been happening. So, neither am I.
I strongly suggest you get with my God and let him cover you with the spirit of armor needed to combat these evil dictators. That’s the only way to fight this. Everlasting life is your gift for asking Jesus into your heart. It’s so simple. 😇 Just a side note: my 83 yr. old father had Covid & with Ivermectin & FLCCC protocols, he was better in 4 days. Not 1 day in bed. Think it doesn’t work? Think again. Read the studies that aren’t paid for by Big Pharma. & the vaccine pushers. I’m not anti-vax either. My dad and I both have 2 Moderna vaccines but I wish, more than anything, that we could get them out of our bodies. No more. No more boosters, nothing. Natural immunity is thriving in the U.S. Those are the heroes – and there’s a lot of them.