Listen to Post-traumatic mental health, Bogong moths, earthquakes and blood stem cells48:5515 September 2024

With his co-hosts away, Dr Shane is joined in the studio by four guests talking all things science.

This week’s guests are Dr Rahul Khanna, Program Director for Mental Health State-wide Trauma Service at Phoenix Australia, talking about the world’s first jurisdiction-wide trauma service aiming to transform the way mental health services understand and respond to trauma, Dr Marissa Parrott, Senior Conservation Biologist at Zoos Victoria, casting a spotlight on the endangered Bogong Moth in Australia, Dr Dee Nines, Earthquake Geologist at the Seismology Research Centre talking all things earthquakes, and Rita Saxena, a PhD student at MCRI and the University of Melbourne, speaking about their recently published method of generating haematopoietic stem cells using induced pluripotent stem cells.

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