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Vale Professor Mary-Louise McLaws

Mary-Louise McLaws provided important lifesaving health advice at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic." (ABC News: Brendan Esposito)

Vale Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, a revered international figure in the world of disease control and infection prevention, who had worked with Beijing to prevent SARS from becoming a global pandemic; who had become a major figure in the World Health Organization and was responsible for identifying and solving the problem of hospital-led infections; had trained dozens of public health students and supervised countless PhD candidates, who helped guide Australia through the pandemic, passed away aged 70 from a brain tumour.

 

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Photo credit – “Mary-Louise McLaws provided important lifesaving health advice at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.” (ABC News: Brendan Esposito)

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