Mindful Matters

When the Jockey Club ‘Peace and Awareness’ Mindfulness Culture in Schools Initiative began in 2019, COVID-19 had not appeared on the scene. But the challenges the pandemic has wrought on the mental health of our community – especially youth – have made it both timely...

Fighting Back against COVID-19

VACCINE BREAKTHROUGHSCurrent vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 have done well protecting people from severe illness and death, but some studies have shown that even vaccinated people may continue to carry quite high levels of the virus in their nose, a situation that may...

Disunity of Purpose

In 2007, the Indonesian government announced it would stop sending samples of the H5N1 avian influenza virus detected in its country to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) reference laboratories. Its worry was that these samples, provided freely, would be used by...

The ‘One Health’ Challenge

What does One Health mean in practice? Professor Malik Peiris, Tam Wah-Ching Professor in Medical Science, of the School of Public Health, one of the most highly cited scholars in the world on emerging infectious diseases and recent joint recipient of the prestigious...

Zooming across the World

For Spanish lecturer Dr Mercedes Vázquez of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, the COVID-19 pandemic ruled out a crucial part of her programme – trips to Spanish-speaking countries where students could apply their language and intercultural learning. So she...