Australian experts respond to Pfizer vaccine announcement

Pfizer and BioNTech have issued a press release, announcing that their vaccine candidate is more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19. The results are based on initial data… more

Healthcare workers almost three times more likely to get COVID-19

Australian doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers are nearly three times more likely to get COVID-19 than other Australians, a new study of the early pandemic period from… more

Global biosecurity expert weighs in on whether Australia should open international borders

There’s speculation that home quarantine may be part of a future plan for returned international travellers, but professor of global biosecurity at the University of New South… more

GPs to be at forefront of Australia’s COVID vaccine distribution

The latest agreements mean Australia has lined up four different vaccine candidates, which Head of the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute Professor Raina MacIntyre… more

Epidemiologist helped eradicate smallpox

J. Michael Lane, an epidemiologist who helped see to its end the global campaign to eradicate smallpox, a disease that killed hundreds of millions of people over centuries before… more

Global Biosecurity Professor says for Victoria, 'the contact tracing is the key'

UNSW Global Biosecurity expert Professor Raina Macintyre says the two things most critical in containing an outbreak are finding all the cases and tracking and quarantining any… more