WHEN the movie "Contagion" came out 10 years ago, I had just completed my Master of Science in Public Health and an internship with the World Health Organisation’s Immunisation, Vaccine and Biologicals Department at their headquarters in Geneva.
I was due to begin a PhD to study whether it was possible to develop a rapid test to diagnose infectious tuberculosis (TB) using a drop of blood. (Spoiler alert: it was not).
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Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah
Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah is an honorary fellow at Macfarlane Burnet Institute (Melbourne, Australia) and an alum of the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia. She is active in science communication and infectious disease biomedical research. She was the first female Asian champion of FameLab, the world’s longest running science communication competition, in 2018. The writer’s views are her own.
