Guest Speaker Marie Gerrard:
Marie is a former scientist with the Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference laboratories eventually moving to the Doherty Institute in Parkville, Victoria. She was the High Security Scientist and was very involved with the WHO Committee on biosafety and containment. Her focus was on viruses—their origin, mutations and transmission.
Marie has a Bachelor Degree in Medical Science from RMIT, a postgraduate degree in Immunology at Monash University and also studied for a Masters Degree in Development Studies at Deakin
University. As well as infectious diseases she has had a long interest in Human Rights and development.
She is a member of the Rotary Club of Southern Mitchell, District 9790 and is currently the International Service Chair.
We look forward to hearing from Marie about her work and about the threat to humans from viruses, especially in light of the recent SARS COVID-19 pandemic {and don’t forget Swine Flu, Bird Flu, Zika virus, Ebola virus etc}
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