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October 2020
The Engaged University: Advancing Research and Innovation through Powerful Partnerships Professor Janet Nelson Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Research and Innovation University of Newcastle This event is presented jointly with the University of Newcastle as part of its Looking Ahead series In today’s society, we face unprecedented change and complex global challenges. This means we need to think and work differently, and our agility, responsiveness, and collaborative experimentation as a society will be [...]
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After COVID-19: Creating the Best of Times from the Worst of Times Preliminary Notice and Draft Program More than 100 years after the 1918 Spanish flu claimed more than 50 million lives, pandemics remain on the list of major global risks. They are difficult to predict and invariably alter the course of history in ways we cannot foresee. The effects of this year’s COVID-19 pandemic spread quickly well beyond the people it infected, disrupting [...]
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1288th OGM and Open Lecture The role of Helicobacter Pylori in Peptic Ulcer Disease Professors Thomas Borody and Adrian Lee Centre for Digestive Diseases (1) and UNSW Sydney (2) This is the first presentation in the series How Good is NSW, a sequence of presentations documenting past and present discoveries that have made a difference. In it, Professors Lee and Borody will tell little known stories of the essential contributions by [...]
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Planetary Health—Safeguarding Health in the Anthropocene Epoch Professor Tony Capon Monash University Professor Tony Capon directs the Monash Sustainable Development Institute and holds a chair in planetary health in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University. A public health physician and authority in environmental health and health promotion, his research focuses on urbanisation, sustainable development and human health. He is a former director of the International Institute [...]
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