Professor Jodie McVernon
Professor and Director of Epidemiology, University of Melbourne at The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity and Royal Melbourne Hospital
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Testing wildlife could stop pandemics in their tracks
The key to reducing disease in humans is proactive disease surveillance in animals, and we already have the technology to do it
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The science behind the search for a COVID-19 vaccine
Unless a new treatment is discovered, developing a vaccine is crucial to controlling COVID-19. In this special report, our experts explain the complex challenge of creating, testing and distributing a potential vaccine to end the coronavirus
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Watch Episode 2: Life beyond Coronavirus: The Expert view
From the government’s Covidsafe tracking app to a new testing regime - what will it take to end isolation?
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What maths can tell us about the spread of the new coronavirus
Mathematical modelling gave us an early warning about the size of the coronavirus outbreak – now, researchers are doing the numbers daily to work out how the virus could spread
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Protecting the world from the threat of pandemics
Creating mathematical and computational models of infectious diseases like pandemic flu gives government and policy-makers a toolkit to respond to this ever-present threat
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Vaccination: A numbers game that adds up
Immunisation is widely accepted, but the higher the coverage the safer we’ll all be