Latest Blogs

  • How our DNA impacts physical health and suicide risk

    By Rio Harrison The issue Suicide remains a global public health challenge that accounts for more than 700 000 deaths annually worldwide. Although public health frameworks focus heavily on psychosocial intervention, understanding the biological mechanisms resulting in suicidal behaviour is a massive unmet clinical need and remains a complex puzzle in science. To deal with…

  • Slow Movement in a Fast World: Tai Chi and Qigong as Treatments for Parkinson’s

    By Dené Fraser In a world where everything is expected to move at lightning speed and new medical Interventions are being generated every day, perhaps the secret to a longer, healthier life is one that is slower and more intentional. Tai Chi and Qigong are Chinese medicine practices seen to have originated around the 12th…

Latest Student Reflections

  • Reflection on My Honours Year (So Far)

    By Tony Noveld This year has been a bit like learning to breathe underwater — familiar, yet entirely new. Coming from the relentless pace of the MBChB program into the world of honours-level research in Infectious Diseases & Immunology felt like stepping into a parallel universe where the rules weren’t always clear, the path wasn’t…