‘National interest’ funding tests ‘bad for science’

Conference hears that nationalist politics could hamper efforts to tackle pandemics Governments risk harming their own interests and holding back scientific progress by attempting… more

Are we ready for pandemics and antibiotic resistance?

Some researchers argue that the world is overdue for an influenza pandemic. In that event Australian lives would depend on a robust response from health authorities to any deadly… more

New, Global Biosecurity journal launched today

The research, led by Professor Raina MacIntyre at the Kirby Institute at UNSW Sydney, explores a bioterrorism exercise called ‘Exercise Mataika’, which used the hypothetical… more

Global Measles Outbreak

"We are seeing some very large outbreaks of measles at the moment especially in places like the Philippines, Ukraine, Romania and Africa," Professor Raina MacIntyre, a biosecurity… more

Are we prepared for bioterrorism?

(SYDNEY, Tuesday 21 August 2018) Preparedness could be the difference between a contained local outbreak and a global pandemic if there was a smallpox attack in the Pacific today… more

Simulated smallpox pandemic

Experts determined during a recently completed hypothetical bioterrorism scenario, which imagines a smallpox outbreak originating in Fiji, that ample preparedness and response… more