COVID-19

The economic pause created by Australia’s approach to COVID-19 presents an opportunity to focus government investment on a post-pandemic tech boom that is integrated and opens new pathways to build Australian health, wealth, resilience and wellbeing.

Cruise ships stuck at sea, airlines going into voluntary administration, borders closed and travellers racing deadlines to get home. There’s no doubt the travel and tourism industry was an early victim of COVID-19. But what does recovery look like? Tourism expert Professor Sara Dolnicar from UQ’s Business School explains what the tourism industry of the future might look like.

The webinar featured Fellows and other experts from infectious diseases, epidemiology, intensive care, mental health and economics, who discussed what can we expect over the coming weeks and months, and considered how Australia can chart a course for resilience and recovery.

COVID-19 is primarily a concern for our physical health. But the precautions needed to slow the spread of the disease, such as isolating yourself from others, may make you feel anxious and stressed, even if you’re not ill from the virus.

Recent technological advances have enabled assembly of a wide range of data about an individual’s genetic and biochemical makeup, as formed by their genes, environment and lifestyle. While medicine has always had personal and predictive aspects, precision medicine allows health and disease to be viewed at an increasingly fine-grained resolution, attuned to the complexities of both the biology of each individual, and the variation among the population.