Raina MacIntyre Archives

Prof Raina MacIntyre awarded Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science and Innovation Source:Kirby.unsw.edu Professor Raina MacIntyre has been awarded the prestigious Department of Defence Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science and Innovation at the Eureka Prizes award ceremony last night. It is one of 14 Eureka Prizes across four categories awarded annually by the Australian Museum. The Department of Defence Eureka Prize for Leadership in Science and Innovation is awarded to an individual who has ‘successfully integrated their scientific expertise with the leadership skills necessary to nurture, inspire and mobilise their peers’. Prof. MacIntyre is a world-leading researcher on respiratory protective devices, pandemics, smallpox, and emerging infectious diseases. She leads a NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in airborne threats to health and an automated, artificial intelligence-powered open source rapid epidemic intelligence observatory (EPIWATCH), which detects early signals of serious epidemics globally. ...

‘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 ...