A transcript of episode six of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including a round-up editors on the coronavirus situation around the world.
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Plus a round-up of the coronavirus situation around the world marking one year since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic. Listen to Episode 6 of The Conversation Weekly.
Shoring up surveillance and response systems and learning lessons from how the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded will help the world be ready the next time around.
Reaching the goals of the plan requires the best possible interaction between public and private -for profit and not-for-profit - healthcare sectors.
A waiver may not allow all developing countries to secure medicines and other anti-COVID technologies in a timely way.
Much has been said of the politics surrounding the mission to investigate the viral origins of COVID-19. So it’s easy to forget that behind these investigations are real people.
The anti-vaccine movement is the product of a structural problem, reflecting a lack of trust in the existing global vaccine governance.
Countries in the West Africa region are in a very different position to seven years ago. They now have the experience of the past as well as new tools to tackle Ebola.
When people start to hear that global case numbers are improving, there’s a tendency to relax — and that’s risky.
At the top of President Biden’s foreign policy agenda are COVID-19 and climate change. He has also pledged to make diplomacy and multilateralism the primary means of US foreign policy.
Interim findings from the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response paint a bleak picture of global failure. If things don’t improve, a future pandemic could be truly catastrophic.
As the eradication of polio and the successful rollout of AIDS treatments have shown in the past, global cooperation in the face of COVID-19 is possible.
The stakes are high for China as WHO teams arrive to investigate the origins of the coronavirus. Beijing has presented a success story to the world — and will not accept any criticism.
We found a new way to revert antibiotic resistance. It involves using phage therapy to resensitise a type of bacteria to antibiotics.
Hosted by Russia, the summit gave the BRICS group a chance to harmonise their approach before the G20 meeting in Riyadh.
COVID-19 cases are skyrocketing across the US. Testing has ramped up over the past few months, but increasing hospitalizations, deaths and test-positivity rates show that the virus is out of control.
The funding, procurement, storage and distribution of a vaccine present huge challenges to all governments, including New Zealand’s.
A Trump election loss would suit NZ’s trade, climate and arms control foreign policies. But there will still be the problem of China.
The WHO has been criticised for being slow to recognise the scale of the COVID-9 pandemic. We suggest a new protocol on infectious diseases to help with faster data collection and more open sharing.
A senior World Health Organisation envoy caused consternation by proclaiming lockdowns are not a good long-term strategy against COVID-19. But it’s true, and other subtler tactics are better in the long run.
Top contributors
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Law, University of Waikato
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Professor of Global Health and Director, O'Neill Institute, Georgetown University
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Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Lecturer, Biomedical and Life Sciences, Lancaster University
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Canada Research Chair of Epidemiology & Global Health, McGill University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor, Paediatrics, Cancer and related disorders, Epidemiology, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, UNSW Sydney
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Director of Koi Tū, the Centre for Informed Futures; former Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
