How Science Matters
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Episode 8: Lost Voice – COVID's impact on eliminating malaria
13 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to derail global efforts against killer infectious diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV, leading to more death...
Episode 7: Modelling COVID-19 – Can we predict the future?
06 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 7: Modelling COVID-19: Can we predict the future? In an island-continent like Australia, with a population of almost 26 mil...
Episode 6: Motherhood in a time of pandemic
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
For some pregnant women in Australia, the arrival of COVID-19 ushered in an unusually strange and lonely time. Reassuring face-to-face antenatal care ...
Episode 5: Is COVID-normal really possible?
23 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Asking people to behave differently to how they would normally, is complicated. In a country like Australia, with over 270 different ancestries and a ...
Episode 4 – Everyone's an epidemiologist
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Epidemiologists have become the new rock stars in an era of coronavirus. It’s these ‘disease detectives’ who have kept the world inf...
Episode 3 – No one is safe until everyone is safe
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why can’t a wealthy country like Australia, with its world-class medical resources simply shut out COVID-19? In this episode, Burnet Institute&r...
Episode 2 – Are vaccines the silver bullet?
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The speed of vaccine development for COVID-19 has amazed the most seasoned of scientists. So, how did we get here so fast? And will the vaccines conti...
Episode 1 – A year like no other, the pandemic continues
09 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Why was COVID-19 the virus that become a pandemic? In early 2020 as bushfires ravaged the east coast of Australia, there was an even bigger threat abo...
Series Trailer
22 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Helping us to make sense of the many impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic through science. Why is it so hard to keep a lid on a pandemic? Sifting throug...