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Media release from the University of Otago, Wellington
Tuesday 20 April 2021, 05:00 AM
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University of Otago, Wellington Professor Michael Baker
Kōkiri Marae is hosting an all-day hui on Tuesday to launch the SYMBIOTIC Programme, a five-year research programme that focuses on finding ways of reducing the burden of infectious diseases, long-term conditions, and poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Professor Michael Baker is Director of this new Health Research Council-funded programme which is based at the University of Otago, Wellington. He says the programme aims to make the 2020s the “decade of elimination”.
“The successful elimination of COVID-19 transmission in Aotearoa New Zealand has shown us the value of aiming high. With good science and good leadership, tough challenges that previously were thought to be impossible are now within our reach,” Professor Baker says.