Podcasts
Frontline perspectives of the COVID-19 pandemic with Dr Marion Mateos
Dr Marion Mateos
Today we are discussing how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted medical staff on the frontline. Dr Marion Mateos was juggling being a new mother and her first consultant role, as the pandemic began. Marion is a paediatric oncologist based at the Kids Cancer Centre in Sydney, a clinical academic at the University of New South Wales and a clinic research fellow at the Children's Cancer Institute. You can read more here: https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/4/balancing-oncology-and-motherhood-in-a...
Lived experience of Long COVID with Dr Danielle Hitch.
Dr Danielle Hitch
Today we are discussing Long COVID with Dr Danielle Hitch, an occupational therapist and a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University in Geelong and Western Health in Melbourne. Dr Hitch and her team have published the first Australian study into lived experience of Long COVID and COVID recovery. You can read more at https://insightplus.mja.com.au/2023/8/long-covid-why-isnt-anyone-listening/ With MJA news and online editor, Sam Hunt. 21mins.
Politics, pandemics and the origins of Omicron, with Prof Eddie Holmes
Professor Eddie Holmes
Vol 217, Issue 10: 14 November 2022. Professor Eddie Holmes is an ARC Australian Laureate Fellow and one of the world's leading experts on emerging viruses and zoonotic diseases. He talks the need to fix the politics before we can fix pandemics, the toxicity of conspiracy theories and the three viruses that worry him the most. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 19 mins, 58 secs.
Lessons for primary care from COVID-19, with Prof Sarah Larkins and Dr Nicole Allard
Professor Sarah Larkins and Dr Nicole Allard
Vol 217, Issue 9: 7 November 2022. Sarah Larkins is Professor of Health Systems Strengthening at James Cook University. Dr Nicole Allard is a GP and COVID Clinical Lead at cohealth in Melbourne. Their Perspective -- Management of COVID‐19 in the community and the role of primary care: how the pandemic has shone light on a fragmented health system -- is part of an MJA Supplement -- Managing mild to moderate COVID-19 in Australia. They would like to acknowledge the contribution of the Primary a...
An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity, with Prof Raina MacIntyre
Professor Raina MacIntyre
Vol 217, Issue 9: 31 October 2022. Professor Raina MacIntyre is Professor of Global Biosecurity at the Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales. Her new book, Dark Winter: an insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity is available from NewSouth Books from 1 November, 2022. Prof MacIntyre is one of the founders of OzSAGE, and developer of EPIWATCH. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 36 mins, 8 secs.
Omicron update with Professor Brendan Crabb AC
Professor Brendan Crabb AC
Vol 217, Issue 4: 8 August 2022. Professor Brendan Crabb AC is the Director and CEO of the Burnet Institute in Melbourne. He talks about the latest evidence about the Omicron variant of COVID-19, including long COVID, reinfection, rebounding, and the new modelling from the Burnet about the benefits of mask use. National COVID numbers here. State-by-state breakdowns here. Global comparisons here. Burnet Institute COVID-19 hub here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 36 mins, 24 secs.
COVID profits, vaccine mandates, oligopolies, and us, with Prof Martin Hensher
Professor Martin Hensher
Vol 216, Issue 8: 25 April 2022. Professor Martin Hensher is the Henry Baldwin Professorial Research Fellow in Health System Sustainability at the Menzies Institute for Medical Research. He talks about the economics and COVID-19 vaccines and the opportunities Australia has to lead the region in vaccine development and manufacture, to accompany his coauthored Perspective published in the MJA. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 23 mins, 50 secs.
Invasive meningococcal disease and COVID-19, with Dr Robert George and Prof Monica Lahra
Dr Robert George and Professor Monica Lahra
Vol 216, Issue 6: 28 March 2022. DR CR Robert George is a microbiologist and pathologist with John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle. Professor Monica Lahra is Medical Director of Microbiology, NSW Health Pathology at the Prince of Wales Hospital. They talk about the decline of invasive meningococcal and influenza during the COVID-19 pandemic, to accompany their coauthored MJA Perspective. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 24 mins, 41 secs.
Long COVID: sustained and multiplied disadvantage, with Prof Evelyne de Leeuw
Professor Evelyne de Leeuw
Vol 216, Issue 4: 7 March 2022. Professor Evelyne de Leeuw is the Director of the Centre for Health Equity Training Research and Evaluation at UNSW Sydney. She talks about the need for action to help disadvantage and vulnerable communities recover from COVID, and long COVID, to accompany her coauthored MJA Perspective. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 20 mins, 39 secs.
Wellness, COVID-19 and the politics of pandemics, with Dr Norman Swan
Dr Norman Swan
Vol 216, Issue 2: 31 January 2022. Dr Norman Swan is producer and presenter of the ABC's Health Report, and the Coronacast podcast. He talks about his book, So You Think You Know What's Good For You, and the past two years of COVID-19 life and politics in Australia. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell. 21 mins, 11 secs.