Oct 4, 2021 | Media, Podcast
COVID modelling and the roadmap for opening up Life matters, ABC Radio National Models make predictions that help shape the policy approaches being taken towards fighting coronavirus and some states are planning a pathway out of lockdown based on these models. The...
Jul 25, 2021 | Media, Podcast
The Quicky, Mamamia Podcasts With no end in sight to Australia’s current lockdowns and restrictions, it seems some of our political leaders are trying to shift our focus away from daily case numbers, and concentrate more on vaccination rates and what...
May 21, 2021 | Media, Podcast
ABC Radio National and BBC World Service Patient Zero: Back From The Brink A six-year old boy in Papua New Guinea wakes up one day and is suddenly unable to stand up. Less than a year later, children in three other Asia Pacific nations are experiencing the same...
May 20, 2021 | Media, Podcast
ABC Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly Pressure is mounting for an urgent ad campaign to combat vaccine hesitancy, after it was revealed 1.5 million COVID-19 vaccines are sitting unused in clinics across Australia. So how can the government encourage vaccine...
Oct 9, 2020 | Media, Podcast
by Michael Mackenzie on Life Matters Reverse or ‘backwards’ contact tracing is being pursued in an effort to squash clusters of coronavirus cases. But mystery cases are holding things back and this may be a problem for the easing of restrictions and border...
Apr 23, 2019 | Media, Podcast
Life Matters, ABC Radio Nationa Dr Meru Sheel is a field epidemiologist and population health expert at Australian National University, but she describes herself as a ‘disease detective’. Dr Sheel became interested in helping prevent infectious...
