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23 Dec 2021

Garang Dut’s journey from a refugee camp to health policy expert

Dr Garang Dut understands better than most the toll the COVID-19 pandemic has taken on Australia’s refugee community.  

Dr Nikolay Shirokikh

28 Sep 2020

Building a research career: it’s just like summiting Everest

Dr Shirokikh, a researcher at the ANU John Curtin School of Medical Research (JCSMR), has spent his career talking to cells about how their genes are translated into proteins with the help of a molecule called RNA.

Dr Ellie Paige

28 Sep 2020

Dr Ellie Paige: the life-changing decisions shaping a research career in population health

Dr Ellie Paige was always interested in science. From a young age, she would confidently tell people she would be a biomedical scientist when she grew up.

26 May 2020

Isolation salvation

We reached out to our science, health and medicine community to find out what helped them survive isolation.

9 Dec 2019

Building a healthier future for Asia and the Pacific

Health outcomes in Asia and the Pacific have improved dramatically in the past 50 years, but Dr Patrick Osewe warns that now is not the time for complacency.

23 Sep 2019

Aah, the memories: looking back on an inspiring career in psychology

Where once we might have understood memory to be like a recording device, Professor Loftus has demonstrated that memory is more like a Wikipedia page.

17 Sep 2019

Coach. Coxswain. Cancer researcher.

In this video, find out what motivates Dr Renae Domaschenz to push the limits on the lake and in the lab.

Dr Tegan Cruwys, ANU Research School of Psychology

8 Aug 2019

Social connections help young people with depression

Dr Cruwys is currently leading a trial program called Groups 4 Health which is being run in partnership with Australian Rotary Health and Headspace.

8 Aug 2019

Strengthening relationships between children and their kinship and foster parents

Dr Dave Pasalich wants to help the nearly 48,000 Australian children living in out-of-home care.

1 Aug 2019

Vanquishing prejudice takes practice

Jessica Halem’s job at Harvard Medical School is to alleviate suffering. But she’s not a doctor.

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