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Nov 12, 2022 • 27min

Episode 499: MJA Podcasts 2022 Episode 42: Healthy Indoor air quality: why it's important, with Prof Lidia Morawska

Vol 217, Issue 10: 14 November 2022. Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska is Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at QUT in Brisbane, a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. Her coauthored MJA Perspective on the need for Australian standards for indoor air quality is available here. Prof Morawska is a member of OzSAGE. Their advice on ventilation and air quality is available here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.
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Nov 12, 2022 • 20min

Episode 498: MJA Podcasts 2022 Episode 41: Politics, pandemics and the origins of Omicron, with Prof 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.
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Nov 4, 2022 • 22min

Episode 497: MJA Podcasts 2022 Episode 40: Lessons for primary care from COVID-19, with Prof 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 and Chronic Care Panel of the National Clinical Evidence Taskforce. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.
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Oct 30, 2022 • 36min

Episode 496: MJA Podcasts 2022 Episode 39: An insider's guide to pandemics and biosecurity, with Prof 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.
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Oct 17, 2022 • 14min

Episode 495: MJA Podcasts 2022 Episode 38: iGAS and its prevention, with Dr Johanna Birrell and Prof Bart Currie

Vol 217, Issue 8: 17 October 2022. Dr Johanna Birrell is a public health and general medicine advanced trainee at the Northern Territory Centre for Disease Control. Professor Bart Currie is from the Royal Darwin Hospital and the Menzies School of Health Research. They discuss the prevention of invasive group A streptococcal disease, to accompany their research published here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.
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Oct 9, 2022 • 16min

Episode 494: MJA Podcasts 2022 Episode 37: Climate change through a disaster medicine lens, with Prof George Braitberg AM

Vol 217, Issue 8: 10 October 2022. Professor George Braitberg AM is Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Melbourne and Austin Hospital. He is also the Emergency Medicine Head of the Centre for Integrated Critical Care Medicine. He talks about the way we can think about and respond to climate change through the lens of disaster medicine. To accompany his MJA Perspective published here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.
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Oct 1, 2022 • 34min

Episode 493: MJA Podcasts 2022 Episode 36: Modern paradigms for prostate cancer detection and management with Prof Mark Frydenberg

Vol 217, Issue 7: 3 October 2022. Professor Mark Frydenberg is a Melbourne-based urologist, specialising in urologic oncology and cancer surgery. He talks about modern paradigms for the detection and management of prostate cancer, to accompany his Narrative Review published in the MJA. There is also an InSight+ article on this topic. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.
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Oct 1, 2022 • 20min

Episode 492: MJA Podcasts 2022 Episode 35: Being Equally Well, with Prof Rosemary Calder AM and Prof James Dunbar

Vol 217, Issue 7: 3 October 2022. Professor Rosemary Calder AM is Professor of Health Policy at the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University. Professor James Dunbar is Honorary Professor in Deakin University's School of Medicine. They discuss the Being Equally Well program for people with serious mental illness, which is the subject of their MJA Supplement and Editorial. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell.
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Sep 23, 2022 • 21min

Episode 491: Voice of the GP Ep 6 2022: Dr Bailey Dunn, John Street Medical

Voice of the GP Episode 6: 26 September 2022. Dr Bailey Dunn is a Canadian who did her medical school and training in Australia, falling in love with Tasmania. She and her husband bought John Street Medical in Kingston, Tasmania just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. She introduced burnout prevention strategies which have saved the sanity and health of her GPs, given her patients more options, and have turned the practice into a financially viable proposition. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.
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Sep 16, 2022 • 15min

Episode 490: MJA Podcasts 2022 Episode 34: A vision for the future of the MJA, with Professor Ginny Barbour

Vol 217, Issue 6: 19 September 2022. Professor Ginny Barbour will take over as Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Journal of Australia and InSight+ on 23 January 2023. She was one of the founding editors of PLOS Medicine, and is currently Director of Open Access Australasia. She talks with MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell about her vision for the MJA going forward. 

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