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‘An Insider’s Guide to Pandemics and Biosecurity’-by Dr. Laleen Jayamanne Source:Island Author: Raina MacIntyre (Sydney: NSW Press, 2022) “June Twenty Second Sixteen Thirty-three A momentous day for you and me Of all the days that was the one An age of Reason could have begun”The Life of Galileo, Bertolt Brecht, 1939 Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies (retired) University of Sydney Personal Connections There is a wonderful long-ago-and-far-away connection between Bertolt Brecht’s play The Life of Galileo (1939), and Raina MacIntyre, the distinguished, internationally respected Lankan-Australian Epidemiologist and University Professor of Global Biosecurity. She is the daughter of Nalini and Ernest MacIntyre, the former a Vice-Principal of Ladies’ College, and the latter a leading member of The Stage and Set theatre group. Mac, as he is known, introduced Brecht’s theatre to Lanka by directing the Chalk Circle. In 1969, as a little girl growing up in Colombo, Raina MacIntyre played the role of ...