Mary-Louise McLaws, renowned epidemiologist who helped guide Australia through the pandemic, dies ag

#mary-louisemclaws #covid-19 #unsw #epideologist In darkest days pandemic – when people don't know whether to wash cans they bring home from supermarket or buy a gas mask for an hour a day to safely exercise – epidemiologist and infection control expert, Professor Mary-Louise McLaws, is one of most trusted, caring and caring people in lives many Australians. It was a calming mind. Professor McLaws or Mary-Lou, or ML as she signed, was a nationally beloved and recognized hero of those dark times. In countless television interviews, she sat in front of their oddly colored bookcase, speaking in those reassuring and soft tones that had always been all they wanted to hear for many, with her neatly bun hair and sharply framed eyes. When confusion or opposition in public health response to COVID-19 boils over the national conversation, public will repeat on programs like mine, "But what does Mary-Louise McLaws think?" Renowned epidemiologist and University of New South Wales Professor Mary-Louise McLaws peacefully in her sleep on Saturday night, 18 months after being diagnosed and treated for a brain tumor. She was 70 years old. When she announced her diagnosis, the overflowing grief of the public was real and instinctive The bitter injustice of a disease that targeted this beloved figure and never discriminated hit hard. For many, she felt like a dear friend. Professor McLaws was a trusted authority on COVID-19 in nearly daily TV interviews at the height of the pandemic. What many don't know is that before Professor McLaws became pandemic household name, he was already a respected international figure in world disease control infection prevention, working with Beijing to prevent SARS from escalating into global pandemic; Becoming an important figure in the World Health Organization responsible for identifying solving problem of hospital-acquired infections; has trained dozens public health students supervised countless doctoral candidates. One student who wrote to support the professor's nomination for the postgraduate teaching award said that Mary-Louise was loved more than she could have imagined. Mary-Louise McLaws was born on March 17, 1953, in Tasmania, to the mother of Louise and Barry Viney. Mary-Louise's brother, Barrie, had been born two years earlier. He was raised Jewish by his mother, who left Tasmania and took her two children to Bondi in Sydney. Mary-Louise completed her education at Gosford High School on the Central Coast of New South Wales. Young Mary-Louise was both naturally rebellious and academic. She campaigned for the girls at her school to wear trousers in the winter, and she first dreamed of becoming a pilot like her stepdad Bruce McLaws and eventually an astronaut. After doing well in school, she was accepted to the University of Sydney to pursue a Bachelor of Science degree before completing her master's degree in Public Health. His interest in infection control was phenomenal. In 1984, he developed the first surveillance system for healthcare-associated infections as a pil

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