Professor Dale Fisher chairs the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network of the World Health Organisation (WHO), and also has an extra task during this outbreak: He is the expert in a series of comics aimed at educating the public about Covid-19.
"If you understand the disease, you don't panic. That's why community messaging and engagement is so critical," said the Australian-born senior consultant at the National University Hospital's division of infectious diseases. He has been on WHO outbreak missions to places such as Mongolia and Liberia.
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