About VaxWorks
Our Mission
VaxWorks will play a significant role in building Australia’s productivity and quality of life, by supporting healthy businesses and communities with quality, accessible prevention management tools and services.
We promise to deliver our very best to our customers at all times.
We will bring you a simple-to-use service that is customised to meet your needs, and give you all the tools you’ll need to make the most of your staff, school, or community clinics. We care about your staff and your business, and if there’s anything we can do to improve our service to you, we welcome your feedback.
Why Choose VaxWorks?
- We’ve backed our commitment to quality health services with policies and procedures consistent with ISO9001:2015 standards.
- VaxWorks’ policies and guidelines comply with standards set out by NHMRC and state Health Departments.
- VaxWorks’ team has over 20 years’ experience developing and delivering large-scale vaccination programs for schools, business, universities, and communities.
- Our caring and friendly clinic staff are all registered nurses with specialist immunisation training and experience.
- VaxWorks’ nurses carry all the necessary equipment and have the skills to manage any unforeseen circumstances.
- As a fully mobile service, we bring the clinics to you—whether you’re in a metropolitan office, or a regional setting.
- VaxWorks’ voucher service means that staff who can’t make the scheduled clinic can visit a local pharmacy for their vaccination at a time that suits them.
- Wherever possible, we offer Australian-made, quadrivalent (four-strain) flu vaccines to our Australian clients, which offer protection from a greater number of circulating viruses in any season.
- For our New Zealand clients, we only offer quadrivalent (four-strain) vaccinations.
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Meet The Team
We invite you to get to know a few of our friendly team members (more to come once we corner them for a photo and bio!).
Damian Gray
Damian is a registered nurse who has been working in immunisation services for over 20 years. In that time, he has managed some of the largest vaccination programs in Queensland, which included school-based programs, outbreak control programs (such as the 2010 pandemic program), and a number of businesses across Australia.
Damian has lectured in Health Care Safety and Quality, and Health Program Planning and Evaluation at the University of Queensland. He was also involved in designing and delivering accredited immunisation training for pharmacists through the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia.
His first-hand experience nursing people with serious illnesses fuels his passion for protecting people’s health through preventative management. It’s this passion, and a commitment to improving the accessibility of quality health care services, that inspired his establishment of VaxWorks.
Areas of Expertise:
- Immunisation
- Public Health
- Communicable Diseases
- Pandemic Preparedness
- Health Training
Louise Hunter
Louise is a valuable member of our VaxWorks team, working with us since 2017. Louise has primarily worked with our clients at their workplace influenza clinics, and in more recent years was part of the VaxWorks team in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccination. As a Registered Nurse with 30 years’ experience, she brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the VaxWorks team. Louise’s skills are muti-facetted including immunisation, community, cardiac, palliative care and rehabilitation. Throughout her career, Louise has enjoyed working with a diverse range of people. Caring for the whole person, she has a natural ability to make people feel at ease and reassured while administering vaccines in our workplace clinics.
Louise achieved her Certificate IV in Training and Assessment in 2022. As a qualified Health Trainer, Louise has taught courses to businesses and individuals of different backgrounds and skill sets, including First Aid, CPR and Assisting Clients with Medication. She has a passion for training and helping people learn new skills that could help to save lives, tailoring each course to the specific client, ensuring the knowledge she is sharing is relevant and practical.
Louise enjoys working at VaxWorks as it gives her great work-life balance and the opportunity to continue providing valuable health services to the community. When not working, you’ll find Louise caring for her family, providing junior swimming lessons and playing golf.
Areas of expertise:
- Immunisation
- Community Nursing
- Health Training
Tracie Parnell
Tracie is an experienced Registered Nurse, with over 20 years’ experience working in the hospital and community health sector. She began her career in orthopaedics and general surgery at the Mater Hospital in Brisbane, before joining a vibrant and busy General Practice, with responsibility for administering the Practice’s community Immunisation programs.
Family circumstances set Tracie on a different career path working in schools as an Educator for several years.
In 2020, Tracie joined VaxWorks to help deliver our flu and COVID-19 vaccination clinics. Tracie is a well-respected member of the VaxWorks team and was instrumental in the administration of COVID-19 vaccinations during the initial rollout in 2021-2022 as well as VaxWorks Health Service’s yearly flu vaccination programs. Tracie achieved her Certificate IV in Training and Assessment in 2022 and as a qualified health trainer, has taught courses in First Aid, CPR and Assisting Clients with Medication. She enjoys teaching and helping people to learn new skills.
Our clients have certainly benefited from Tracie’s combined medical knowledge and practical experience in education.
Tracie thoroughly enjoys her role at VaxWorks Health Services as it allows her to continue protecting the community through immunisation programs. She also intends to further her studies in Diabetes. Outside of work, Tracie enjoys working out at the gym.
Areas of expertise:
- Immunisation
- Community Nursing
- Health Training