CaringKinderSociety

CaringKinderSociety , 5 months ago to random

#RecommendedReading
#DarkWinter #RainaMacIntyre #PublicHealth
#BookDarkWinterbyRainaMacIntyre

[Professor Raina MacIntyre] published her first book, Dark Winter - An insider’s guide to pandemics and biosecurity in 2022, which conveys her knowledge and concerns about biosecurity in lay language for non-expert readers.

Professor Raina MacIntyre (MBBS Hons 1, FRACP, FAFPHM, M App Epid, PhD).... heads the Biosecurity Program at the Kirby Institute, which conducts research in epidemiology, vaccinology, bioterrorism prevention, mathematical modelling, genetic epidemiology, public health and clinical trials in infectious diseases.

Area of Expertise
Emerging infectious diseases, infection, biosecurity, biodefense, influenza, vaccines, adult vaccination, elderly vaccination, epidemiology, outbreaks, epidemic control, pandemics, travel and border control, HPV, pneumococcal disease, bioterrorism, smallpox, monkeypox, anthrax, Ebola, viral haemorrhagic fevers, MERS coronavirus, COVID-19, health security, health intelligence, modelling, clinical trials, study design, big data, precision harm, artificial intelligence for epidemic detection.

https://www.kirby.unsw.edu.au/our-people/raina-macintyre

CaringKinderSociety , 6 months ago to random

#CeasefireNow #Apartheid #Genocide #EthnicCleansing

"..our universities in Australia must be places where we have the courage to take up our responsibilities as ethical researchers and teachers: our classrooms must be spaces of historical truth-telling that seek to explain why and how this is happening and support students to express their truths, including through student activism."

"As educators and researchers, we pay our deep respect to Palestinian scholars, writers, artists, and activists, including Palestinians based in Australia. We commit to continuing to learn from long histories of Palestinian description, critique, and analysis. Our colleagues in Palestine have called on us again and again to take action, and so we must. Telling the truth in history – as we know from our experiences in this settler-colony of Australia – is an important act of resistance, and we commit to undertaking this task."

https://overland.org.au/2023/12/statement-from-historians-in-australia-in-solidarity-with-palestine/