Skip to content
TrackPodcasts
newsMay 4, 20269:40pending

Changing Australia: Hugh Taylor on eliminating trachoma

About this episode

Trachoma is the world's leading infectious cause of preventable blindness, and in Australia the burden has been felt largely in regional and remote First Nations communities.

But in recent days the World Health Organisation declared Australia has finally eliminated trachoma as a public health problem — a landmark achievement and a huge step in preventing avoidable vision loss.

Guest: Laureate Professor Emeritus Hugh Taylor, founder of the Centre for Eye Research and founder of the Indigenous Eye Health Unit at Melbourne University.

Get every episode summarized

Each time Radio National Breakfast publishes, we email you a written briefing from the transcript — the topics, who appeared, and any specific claims, with the ad reads skipped.

Email me new episodes

Free for 3 shows. No card needed.

Hosts & guests

No transcript yet

This episode has not been transcribed. Request it and it moves to the front of the queue.

Changing Australia: Hugh Taylor on eliminating trachoma

Radio National Breakfast

0:00
9:40

More episodes

More from Radio National Breakfast

View all episodes →