The Politics of Pandemics

Jon Faine is an award-winning journalist who, until October 2019, hosted the morning broadcast for ABC Radio in Melbourne for more than twenty years. He regularly contributes to major newspapers with opinion pieces and has been nominated for three Walkley awards. Apollo & Thelma: A True Tall Tale is his second book.

Chip Le Grand is the chief reporter for The Age. Lockdown, the story of Melbourne's pandemic experience, is his second book. His previous book, The Straight Dope, an investigation into the Essendon and Cronulla football doping scandals, was awarded the Walkley Book Award and William Hill Australian Sports Book of the Year.  

Raina MacIntyre is a specialist physician with a Masters and PhD in epidemiology, training in shoe-leather investigation of outbreaks and over 400 scientific publications. She is a leader in emerging infections, bioterrorism, vaccines and facemasks and on expert committees for the WHO. Her book Dark Winter has just been published.