Climate change and the growing population in tropical and subtropical regions are accelerating the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, posing urgent public health challenges worldwide.
Jomo Kigotho knows from personal experience the devastating impacts of malaria. Now, the young scientist is part of a team that’s found a new weapon in the war against the disease-causing parasite.
Women have been fighting poverty pay, long hours and unsafe working conditions long before COVID-19 hit.
The first results of a major trial using the bacterium Wolbachia to stop the spread of the tropical disease has been a huge success.
Forget the finger-pointing – public communications that promote collective action will make our pandemic-clouded lives a little easier.
Our post-coronavirus pandemic future will be very different to the one we anticipated, as it reshapes relationships, governments, business, and broader society.
Philanthropy is now viewed as a way of creating communities of people with a shared goal of bringing positive, practical change to the world.
Sometimes, improving public health can mean infringing on people’s rights and compromising their interests.
A global program in which mosquitoes are implanted with a common bacteria is preventing the spread of viruses such as dengue, Zika and chikungunya – and could help tens of millions of people.
A five-year, Monash-led project RISE aims to bring clean water and sanitation to impoverished urban communities.
Over coming decades, Australia’s economic prosperity and wellbeing will depend more and more on our ability to foster and sustain a culture of innovation. Universities will be vital to this endeavour, not only in their role as centres for...
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