- Professor Joan McMeeken AM
Professorial Fellow Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences; Foundation Professor and Head School of Physiotherapy 1991-2007, University of Melbourne
Modern lessons from our polio past
One pre-vaccine polio treatment used blood to create a serum, and there are lessons to be learned when it comes to COVID-19 says University of Melbourne expert
Remembering Australia’s polio scourge
Polio epidemics were a scourge in Australia until the vaccine arrived; a University of Melbourne expert looks back at how polio was treated, and feared.