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Study uses satellite data to add to growing evidence that nighttime light exposure raises risk of breast cancer, with the strongest link among young women.
While we must put in place effective measures to protect against the malicious use of personal data, not using the information collected about Australians comes at a cost.
Phrases like “knowledge production” conceal the fact that knowledge answers to something beyond itself and beyond us. To produce knowledge is to find out about something.
Long-term studies help identify new risk factors for disease and how we might address them.
The power to overcoming Ebola was in public awareness by performing simple yet basic infection prevention and control measures like washing hands, isolation and reporting suspected cases.
Sometimes statistics and probability can produce unexpected or counter-intuitive results. If we're hoping to use numbers to make good decisions, we should be wary of the traps.
One year after the end of the West African Ebola epidemic, a study of survivors in Guinea shows what has been learned about the deadly virus, and what remains unknown.
Flu virus mutates so quickly that one year's vaccine won't work on the next year's common strains. But a new way to create vaccines, called 'rational design,' might pave the way for more lasting solutions.
A new way of looking at what's behind chronic disease takes into account social, environmental and other factors, rather than blaming individuals.
After almost four-and-a half decades and from modest beginnings, the Dunedin study has evolved into one of the most significant long-term tracking studies in the world.
It's hard to contain a mosquito-borne infection like Zika when the conditions are ideal for it to spread.
Women are catching up to men in rates of alcohol consumption and this has important implications for how we think about our community response to harmful alcohol use.
A computer model suggests that while more cases of Zika can be expected in the continental U.S. outbreaks will probably be small and are not projected to spread.
What could we do if a real-life zombie disease started to spread?
Unless drinking water and sanitation infrastructure are improved, cholera could remain in Haiti indefinitely.
The randomised controlled trial is touted as the gold standard in medical research. But its controlled laboratory conditions are far removed from the messy realities of life.
Remediation will never get radiation to zero in the area affected by the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant. Rather than safety, the conversation should focus on acceptable risk.
Researchers face stiff fines or even jail time if they inadvertently communicate with foreign colleagues about matters deemed to have a military use.
French farms have seen a major outbreak of bluetongue virus, which can be fatal for sheep.
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Professor, School of Medicine, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor, La Trobe University
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Professor and Chair of Epidemiology, University of Michigan
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Research Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan
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Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology, University of Melbourne
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Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Professor in Mathematical Biology, University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Mathematical Biology and Physiology, University of Melbourne
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical & Physical Biology, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University
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Ph.D. Student in Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Entomology and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State
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Professor of International Public Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Mathematical Modelling, UCL
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
