Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised to create an Australian centre for disease control-style organisation to manage future pandemics. Here’s what it needs to do.
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The failure to observe public health protocols during the pandemic requires attention and action. Revitalizing global citizenship education in schools should be part of addressing the problem.
Virologists are beginning to assess which other viruses could have pandemic potential
The first few months of 2020 were critical to the World Health Organization’s response to COVID-19. But the latest report into what happened wasn’t all damning.
A transcript of episode six of The Conversation Weekly podcast, including a round-up editors on the coronavirus situation around the world.
A survey of 800 foreign policy experts identified four international issues where Republicans and Democrats may actually cooperate to get something done – and one area of severe disagreement.
We’re working with professional trainers in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales to train dogs to sniff out COVID-19. They could be highly valuable in managing the spread of infection.
UVC radiation is effective for disinfecting objects and surfaces. It could help manage the coronavirus pandemic and fill gaps in PPE supplies.
Public washrooms are an essential service and the people who maintain them are essential workers. But what happens when a pandemic closes public bathrooms and a civil rights protest breaks out?
The extraordinary scope and scale of the COVID-19 disaster at Canada’s long-term care centres would seem to warrant a public inquiry. But there are no guarantees there will actually be one.
Coronavirus shows just how much the world needs a new system of global governance to address systemic risks.
Best-case estimates suggest 40 million American adults may come down with COVID-19. But an epidemiologist explains why now is not the time to just give up.
The Trump administration has cut funding for infectious disease research and reduced high-level staffing for global health security, leaving the nation less prepared for major outbreaks.
All too often, researchers around the world act in competition when trying to answer research questions in an emergency situation, such as outbreaks of the flu. The UK is trialling a new approach.
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, Adelaide University
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Assistant Professor, Pace University & Associate Research Fellow, Institute on Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS), United Nations University
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Professor of Population Health, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Honorary Professor Faculty of Health and Medical Science, Univeristy of Sydney; Senior Researcher Sydney Institue for Infectious Disease, University of Sydney., University of Sydney
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Deputy Director, Burnet Institute, Adjunct Professor, Monash University, Burnet Institute
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Director, BehaviourWorks, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University
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Professor of Global Politics and Director of UCL Global Governance Institute, UCL
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Citizenship Education and History Teaching Research Lab, Université de Montréal
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
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One Health Lecturer, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, Adelaide University
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Director of William & Mary's Global Research Institute and George and Mary Hylton Professor of Government and International Relations, William & Mary
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Professor of Sociology, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences