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Herd immunity has entered the everyday language, but it is a much misunderstood term.
A fully cashless society has often been presented as natural or inevitable. The experiences of Sweden and Zimbabwe highlight some pitfalls.
There is a growing lament in Australia that politicians let us down. But the lesson from the pandemic is that we, the people, have the power to change our economy and politics for a better future.
Internet technologies and the devices that enable information access and transfer are useful in crisis management. Accessing these readily available digital technologies can help community resiliency.
Health-care workers’ access to personal protective equipment, along with appropriate infection control procedures, affected their mental health during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today’s urgent inequality and environmental crises mean that more, not fewer, students should be studying history.
Students can still have a good experience at university this year – if universities take their needs and concerns seriously.
It’s not just children designated as being ‘at risk’ who are vulnerable. There are thousands of others who have not been assessed and who need the ‘safe haven’ of school.
New research finds that while some women thrived during lockdown, others found breastfeeding to be difficult and overwhelming.
As policymakers weigh financial aid for the airline industry, they have an opportunity to help make the US organ transplantation system more equitable at the same time.
Children struggle amidst adversity, but these tumultuous and highly emotional times make it a critical time to teach ‘resilience’ – giving kids coping skills.
A new report shows out of 1 million students enrolled in all Victorian schools, only 337 may have acquired the virus through outbreaks at school.
A collapse in revenue and a lack of government support have led to university workforces being decimated to cut costs. This presents a number of longer-term risks for universities and the nation.
Government conspiracy theories are without merit, but their growing prevalence should ring alarm bells about the parlous state of civics education in this country.
Whether families actually save anything at all depends entirely on where they live, and what provider they use.
An unprecedented level of research has gone into understanding the novel coronavirus. Here’s what we still don’t know.
With $1 billion in advance purchase agreements for COVID-19 vaccines, Canada has joined the vaccine nationalists: rich countries buying up more than half the global short-term supply of vaccine.
Cambodia found the strength to rebuild itself
through art after the 1979 genocide. While the context is different, this example suggests the importance of art in navigating COVID-19.
The world is in the grip of a new pandemic which sets back the fight against rabies.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Research Fellow in Global Health, University of Southampton
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
