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How backward contact tracing could help us get to COVID normal

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...

The ‘disease detective’ whose job it is to run towards disaster

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...
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