WFH ... WTF ... ????: Working-from-home, employer reaction and pandemic-inspired industrial changes
Brendan Shaw "If after 15 months, you have only a 'suspicion' about what your people are up to and find it 'hard to know' who are your...
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Brendan Shaw
Jul 18, 20231 min read
Back to the Future? Global Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Rumble On
Brendan Shaw Article "Back to the Future? Global Pandemic Treaty Negotiations Rumble On" published in PharmaBoardroom on 18 July 2023 can...
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Brendan Shaw
Jun 18, 20235 min read
As easy as riding a bike?: Work-life balance in the 21st century
Brendan Shaw "What about me? It isn't fair I've had enough, now I want my share Can't you see, I wanna live But you just take more than...
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Brendan Shaw
May 7, 20235 min read
Unconscious uncoupling?: Three years on Covid-19 is no longer a global emergency
Brendan Shaw " I declare an end to the public health emergency of international concern." - Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,...
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Brendan Shaw
Feb 1, 20237 min read
Exonerated!: Rats not to blame for the 14th century Black Death
Brendan Shaw “ .. the Porters who opened the infected Bales of Goods in the Lazaretto's [sic] of Marseilles, died upon the first...
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Brendan Shaw
Dec 11, 20228 min read
Are we all in this together?: individualism, collectivism and post-COVID politics in 2022
Brendan Shaw “The importance of competent government is perhaps the most important of the many painful lessons that are being learned...
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Brendan Shaw
Aug 30, 20221 min read
Arm Doors and Cross-Check: What the Health Sector Can Learn from the Post-COVID Airline Industry
Brendan Shaw Article "Arm Doors and Cross-Check: What the Health Sector Can Learn from the Post-COVID Airline Industry Debacle",...
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Brendan Shaw
Jul 24, 20226 min read
Lessons learned: finance and resilience in post-COVID health systems
Brendan Shaw “If you staff at maximum capacity, well, then you have to price and cost for maximum capacity at all times. But then do you...
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Brendan Shaw
Dec 8, 20211 min read
The Global Pandemic Agreement: Time to Get Serious
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom on discussions on a new global pandemic agreement at the World Health Assembly...
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Brendan Shaw
Aug 19, 20218 min read
Workers of the world resign!: What if post-pandemic staff refuse to return to the office?
Brendan Shaw "Natural ragione è di ciascuno che ci nasce, la sua vita, quanto può, aiutare e conservare e difendere (Every person born...
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Brendan Shaw
May 24, 20211 min read
Opportunities for the Life Science Industry in Australia post-COVID
Brendan Shaw Article published 24 May 2021 on opportunities for Australia's life science sector in a post-COVID world can be found here....
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Brendan Shaw
Jan 14, 20211 min read
5 Trends for Life Science Companies to Watch in 2021
Brendan Shaw Article published in PharmaBoardroom on 14 January 2021 can be found here: https://pharmaboardroom.com/articles/5-trends-for...
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Brendan Shaw
Dec 16, 20207 min read
‘Roll with the punches and get to what’s real’: reflections on 2020
Brendan Shaw "We are trying to reassure people that removing all of the lavatory paper from the shelves of supermarkets probably isn't a...
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Brendan Shaw
Dec 2, 20204 min read
COVID-19 vaccination a 12-month success for science, governments and industry
Brendan Shaw The news just in that the United Kingdom has formally approved the roll out of mass vaccinations for COVID-19 from next week...
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Brendan Shaw
Jun 21, 20201 min read
Spanish Flu vs COVID-19: medical technology and health system resilience
Brendan Shaw Blog published on Medium on 22 June 2020 can be found here. #COVID-19 #health #technology #resilience #funding
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Brendan Shaw
Jun 13, 20206 min read
Covid-19 - So how are we doing? Lessons from USA, UK and France and how to move forward
Rob Hnatuk, Ben Deaville and Jon Bastow* As lifelong friends resident in the USA, UK and France respectively we have been speaking weekly...
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Brendan Shaw
May 18, 20205 min read
Covid-19 - A vaccine will be a game changing addition but not a magic bullet
Evan Lee and Jon Bastow* Of all the investment in research and development that’s underway to meet the challenges of COVID-19 pandemic,...
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Brendan Shaw
May 16, 20201 min read
The coronavirus challenge
Article published in Pharma Times on 15 May 2020 about our failure to adequately fund our health systems to maintain resilience after the...
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Brendan Shaw
May 11, 20205 min read
When resilience trumps efficiency in healthcare
“Global capitalism will have to be re-balanced. The pre-COVID balance between efficiency and resilience will have to tilt on the side of...
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Brendan Shaw
Apr 11, 20204 min read
'Coronavirus is yucky': a pandemic through the eyes of kids
My five-year-old niece has nailed it. While there are reams of news stories, pages of medical advice, hundreds of learned online...
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