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News

Thursday, 15 Oct 2020

Increasing awareness and preventing disease on this Global Handwashing Day

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Wednesday, 16 Sep 2020

Professor Banwell and team awarded $199K to investigate the impact of COVID-19 social connectedness and mental health

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Cartoon man walking through crowd with COVID-19 virus droplets
Tuesday, 25 Aug 2020

Experts warn of SARS-CoV-2 airborne transmission to better understand environmental transmission.

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Thursday, 21 May 2020

Associate Professor Colleen Lau awarded $1.5M by NHMRC to strengthen disease detection & prediction.

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Tuesday, 05 May 2020

COVID-clever cartoon helps teach kids about hygiene and physical distancing to help combat COVID-19.

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Events

A female doctor in a white coat demonstrates using a stethoscope to two young animated children in a classroom with an alphabet poster in the background.
18 May 2023 | 12:30 - 1pm

Examining the acceptability and impact of a school-based helminth education package in the Lower Mekong Basin.

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X-ray image of a human chest showing the ribs and lung area.
19 Aug 2021 | 1 - 1:30pm

This PhD thesis aims to explore the gaps in the TB and MDR-TB continuum of care in Zimbabwe.

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A bustling outdoor market scene with people trading goods, three smiling young girls in the foreground, and a seated camel to the side.
10 Dec 2020 | 12:30 - 1pm

This project aims to assess people's perceptions, knowledge, and health practices about non-communicable diseases (NCDs) using mixed methods.

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A screenshot of a document titled "Retraction—Hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine with or without a macrolide for treatment of COVID-19: a multinational registry analysis" published in the Lancet, detailing the retraction reasons and acknowledgments.
23 Jul 2020 | 12:30 - 1:30pm

Panel discussion on the lessons learned following the retraction of Lancet and NEMJ articles and the implication for research practices.

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A lecturer speaks to a crowd of students in a large university auditorium.
11 Jun 2020 | 12:30 - 1pm

Comparing recursive partitioning and Bayesian network methods with logistic regression in the context of STH infection. 

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A man seated at a desk with two laptops, one displaying a graph and the other showing a document with images of athletes.
12 Mar 2020 | 12:30 - 1:30pm

Tsheten will discuss the entomological and epidemiological characteristics of dengue including the cost of dengue control in Bhutan.

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An elderly man speaking into a microphone in a room with a beige wall.
17 Sep 2018 | 12 - 1pm

Professor Robert Bergquist presents his view on climate change and the effect on parasitic disease.

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A person in gloves administering an injection into another person's upper arm.
27 Oct 2016 | 12:30 - 1:30pm

Local vaccine producers supply over half of the world’s vaccines. However, economic studies on local vaccine production in the present time, are limited. A better understanding of local vaccine production will help developing countries identify the current critical elements that predict vaccine production viability.

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Close-up image of a mosquito standing on a surface, showcasing its distinct black and white striped body and legs.
18 Aug 2016 | 12:45am - 1:30pm