Blog
RSS FeedPosted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2020
Harnessing the power of health taxes
18 June 2020 - Health taxes are a cost effective opportunity for progress in public health. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jun 2020
An ‘America first’ pharma supply chain sounds good. But it won’t work.
17 June 2020 - With a stroke of the president’s Executive Order pen, the Trump administration awarded a $354 million, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jun 2020
The Lancet, New England Journal retract COVID-19 studies, including one that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs
4 June 2020 - The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Jun 2020
WHO set to resume hydroxychloroquine trial in battle against COVID-19
4 June 2020 - The World Health Organization will resume its trial of hydroxychloroquine for potential use against the coronavirus, its ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jun 2020
The CDC waited its entire existence for this moment. What went wrong?
3 June 2020 - Americans returning from China landed at U.S. airports by the thousands in early February, potential carriers ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2020
‘Vaccine nationalism’: a new dynamic in the race to quash coronavirus
27 May 2020 - International pursuit for a shot is shifting into a contest of which world power can immunise its ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2020
Modelling epidemics with compartmental models
27 May 2020 - During epidemics, there is a critical need to understand both the likely number of infections and their ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 May 2020
'Act now': AMA urges health education to combat 'growing' anti-vaxxer movement
25 May 2020 - Medical experts warn decades of progress on immunisation could be undone unless the federal government urgently ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 May 2020
How the world’s premier public health agency was handcuffed
23 May 2020 - The CDC has been absent with leave during the spread of COVID-19. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 May 2020
COVID-19: CSL aims to cover Australia with vaccine
25 May 2020 - Vaccine manufacturer CSL has plans in place to manufacture a COVID-19 vaccine onshore as it confirms ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 May 2020
What to expect when a coronavirus vaccine finally arrives
20 May 2020 - Sobering lessons from the history of the polio vaccine. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 May 2020
Europe falls behind U.S. in funding coronavirus vaccine and securing access
19 May 2020 - U.S. was faster in shouldering drug companies’ costs to develop and manufacture vaccine candidates, putting the bloc ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 May 2020
Is your health data safe as My Health Record hacking revealed
20 May 2020 - The government's My Health Record platform was the target of an attempted hack last year, Australia's ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 May 2020
Australia must work to avoid 'vaccine nationalism', former top bureaucrat warns
18 May 2020 - A former top bureaucrat has warned the international race to develop a vaccine against the novel ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 May 2020
The hidden wave: what happens when everything else is put on hold
15 May 2020 - When Australia's public health system pivoted to address COVID-19, many other serious diseases fell from view. ...