Earlier this year I went to northern Nigeria to research a story on the final push to wipe out wild poliovirus from the last crucibles of disease in terrorised parts of Nigeria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Commissioned by Undark magazine, it was co-published in The Atlantic. Advertisements Continue reading
My story for Cosmos magazine on the work of research scientists in Papua New Guinea into that diabolical human foe, the malaria parasite. Photos by Mayeta Clark. Link here. Continue reading
One of the perks of the job is to meet the likes of Peter Doherty, and I’ve had the great luck to interview and chat with him a dozen times or so over the past several years. Indeed he kindly wrote a lovely endorsement of my climate book, a few years back. A gorgeous, brilliant, … Continue reading
“TB is the child of poverty – and also its parent and provider”: Bishop Desmond Tutu, who was himself a survivor of childhood tuberculosis. I was recently commissioned by the NGO ChildFund to pull together this report on the impact of the TB epidemic on the children of Papua New Guinea. You can find the … Continue reading
Thrilled to announce that my documentary for ABC Radio National’s Background Briefing program “Ebola with Wings: the TB crisis on our doorstep” is a finalist for the Australian Museum’s Eureka Prizes in the Science Journalism category. My co-nominees are BB’s executive producer, Wendy Carlisle, and team members Tim Roxburgh and Linda McGinness. You can listen … Continue reading
Five years after the alarm was raised on the drug resistant tuberculosis emergency in PNG, the worst fears of experts about its spread are being realised. I go back to Daru, the outbreak front line, for my debut as a radio journalist reporting for the ABC. Find the podcast here. Continue reading
A confronting story from Bougainville, PNG, where I have often reported on the crisis of maternal deaths (second highest in the Asia Pacific after Afghanistan). The news angle here the landmark case around the jailing of a couple for the termination of a pregnancy. But the background context is about the tragedy deaths in childbirth, … Continue reading
