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UNSW researchers awarded $33m for medical research

15 Mar 2023

Fifteen projects have received funding from the Australian Government's Medical Research Future Fund.

UNSW researchers receive more than $16m in Ideas Grants

15 Dec 2022

20 UNSW academics receive NHMRC Ideas Grants for research in medicine and health, and science.

How should public infrastructure change in light of COVID-19?

27 May 2020

Professor Rebecca Ivers, Head of School of Public Health and Community Medicine at UNSW, says we need to encourage people to use different modes of transport, such as cycling and walking, and we need to invest in long-term infrastructure projects to support this.

Physical distancing is here for a while: over 100 experts call for more safe walking and cycling space

29 Apr 2020

We've all seen the increases in people walking and cycling on shared paths so crowded it's almost impossible to maintain physical distancing. This must be fixed, and quickly.

Q&A with Mary-Louise McLaws: how the world is coping with COVID-19

09 Apr 2020

UNSW Sydney's Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, who is an adviser to the World Health Organisation, says the world will never be the same again following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Almost 30 per cent of Cambodians borrow money for healthcare

05 Nov 2019

A new UNSW study has found that unless healthcare is better funded for low socio-economic households in Cambodia, efforts to achieve universal health coverage will be futile.

International experts gather at UNSW for Australia-first bioterrorism course

07 Dec 2015

A virus is deliberately released inflicting serious illness and death. This is just one scenario to be examined this week during Australia’s first university-based bioterrorism course at UNSW.