The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the world brings more than illness, death and economic chaos; it brings existential and ethical dilemmas about how to provide care for the elderly who are most at risk...

As the novel coronavirus sweeps around the world, public health systems and political leaders in every country are put to the test – literally in the case of testing capacity and figuratively in...

Australian Policy Online

A recent paper shows the considerable health, social and economic consequences of climate change in developing countries of the Pacific Ocean. Research associate Lesley Russell says Australia has a key role to...

The Canberra Times

Dr Lesley Russell says the millions of people with diabetes in the United States and Australia is overloading health-care budgets and crushing productivity in both countries. Furthermore, she argues the...

Inside Story

Lesley Russell says in the thirty years since HIV/AIDS was first identified much has been achieved in the United States and Australia. She notes, however, that complacency has been a major...

Inside Story

Republican presidential candidates are gathering for the race, but many seem reluctant to line up at the starting gate, writes US Studies Centre Research Associate Lesley Russell from Washington.

The Canberra Times

At the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century, Dr Lesley Russell says the United States is in transition from being a largely white-and-black nation experiencing robust population...

The Canberra Times

The 2012 presidential campaign cycle is starting late thanks to a reluctant batch of Republican candidates, says Dr Lesley Russell. She adds that the Obama-Biden team will be difficult to...

Inside Story

With the recent ascendency of the Republican Party in America, the spending debate in Washington is coming to a head, writes Dr Lesley Russell. Lesley Russell is a research associate at...

The Canberra Times

Lesley Russell says denialist politicians in Australia and America are simply protecting their own interests in opposing attempts to put a price on carbon. Dr Russell is a research associate...