Gerard Finnigan was the IKEA Foundation Humanitarian Leadership Scholar, School of Medicine and School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University.
His PhD focused on how to reduce the death of people who are exposed to natural hazard disasters. Gerard has a background in health and epidemiology, and his research focus is on how the emergency health response of different communities is able to be supported to help prevent more people dying.
While targeted disease control interventions for diagnosing symptomatic cases, contact tracing and follow-up, and limiting socialisation have proven very successful at containing spread, now is the time to transition our national strategy toward a bespoke flexible and sustainable COVID-19 disease control plan.
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If the humanitarian system attempts to respond to any event during this pandemic using historical constructs, we will cause more harm than good.
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