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The University of Melbourne, Burnet Institute and Doherty Institute today welcomed an additional $245 million investment from the Victorian Government to build the new Australian Institute for Infectious Disease (AIID) in Parkville.
Headquartered in the prestigious Melbourne Biomedical Precinct, the AIID will bring together an exceptional network of leading researchers, public health experts and clinicians from the University of Melbourne, Burnet Institute and Doherty Institute.
The AIID is a critical part of Victoria’s investment in future-proofing the national effort to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic and be fully prepared for any future pandemics.
This high-level preparedness includes:
Faster development of new drug candidates and tools to combat new infectious diseases
Corruption threat from surge in consultants, hollowing out of public service
Outsourcing of policy advice doesn t merely undermine the Australian Public Service, a top public policy expert argues, it increases the risk of corruption.
Glyn Davis (Image: AAP/Alan Porritt)
One of Australia s foremost public policy experts has strongly criticised the dramatic expansion in outsourcing of policy advice by the federal government, warning that it risks corruption and has created a vicious circle of declining public sector expertise.
Glyn Davis, a former senior public servant at the state and federal levels, former University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor and a prominent public policy academic, on Friday delivered the annual Jim Carlton Integrity Lecture at the University of Melbourne.
Left to Right: Allan Myers, University of Melbourne Chancellor; Paul Little, co-founder of the Hansen Little Foundation; Jane Hansen, Deputy Chancellor.
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Victoria to lead on new vaccine manufacturing
The Victorian Government will invest $50 million to establish mRNA vaccine and therapeutic manufacturing in Victoria.
The University of Melbourne welcomes today’s announcement by the Victorian Government they will invest $50 million to establish mRNA vaccine and therapeutic manufacturing in Victoria.
The funding announced by Acting Premier James Merlino and Minister for Health Martin Foley will be invested in new critical manufacturing technology and research that will provide certainty of supply of new vaccines and lifesaving treatments in Australia.
mRNA vaccines are a promising alternative to traditional vaccines because of their high efficacy, capacity for rapid development, low-cost manufacture, and safe administration.
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Development of world class underground lab on track
Vice-Chancellor Professor Duncan Maskell was joined underground by a group which included Troy Cole and David Coe from Stawell Gold Mines, Dr Richard Garret (ANSTO), Professor Elisabetta Barberio, Professor Liz Sonenberg and Tom Kelly (University of Melbourne), Professor Jeremy Mould (Swinburne University of Technology) and James Troon. Image: Supplied
University of Melbourne Vice Chancellor Professor Duncan Maskell toured the much-anticipated Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory (SUPL) on Thursday, which is on track to become the first lab in the southern hemisphere to conduct research into ‘dark matter’.
Professor Maskell and Centre of Dark Matter Particle Physics Director Elisabetta Barberio toured the site at the Stawell Gold Mine with the Minister for Regional Development Mary-Anne Thomas.