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When this feeling dawned on me years ago on one of many early morning drives to Canberra during my PhD, it was almost crippling.
Across the world, people have spontaneously gathered on balconies to create music – and community – in the face of isolation and fear.
The decision to reschedule the Olympic and Paralympic Games was the right move. But how should we decide whether and when the Games should now be held?
One way to maintain our well-being might be to reflect on others’ needs and devise ways to be quietly kind.
Online learning can actually be as effective as when classes are delivered face-to-face. But teachers need training to do this effectively.
Previous and current research on coronaviruses helps inform the response to the current pandemic, but funding cuts could threaten these programs.
Historically, pandemics have brought about profound societal improvements. Will that happen this time?
If you know your own personality traits, you might then be better placed to resist your worst unthinking impulses in a time of high anxiety.
Parks have a vital role to play for both physical and mental wellbeing.
The drugs needed for abortion are safer than penicillin.
As the prime minister’s move to lockdown has shown, people could not be trusted to act responsibly for the greater good.
Governments can staunch the current economic collapse without returning to the status quo.
In the eight weeks before the first person with COVID-19 died in the UK mortality rates had been mercifully low.
Behavioural science explained.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, sexual activity may pose risks of transmission. A sex researcher shares information on how sex relates to the current pandemic, and how to prevent transmission.
Very little is known about the relationship between COVID-19 and HIV and TB. What is known is that people’s lungs are affected by all three.
Could the 1889-1890 pandemic have been the result of cow coronaviruses jumping to humans?
The media is regurgitating an international narrative that may not be fit for localised purpose.
The immediate need to “track and trace” infections for public health purposes poses an unprecedented challenge to privacy.
Top contributors
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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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Associate Professor of Bioethics, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
