Professor Jaya Dantas is Dean International in the Faculty of Health Sciences and is Professor of International Health in the School of Public Health at Curtin University, where she leads a programme of research in refugee and migrant health.
Jaya discusses how she believes vulnerable populations were let down in the Australian government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly migrants and Indigenous people living in remote communities. Having lived in war-torn, conflict zones herself, she also discusses how experiences of extreme violence and death can make humans immensely resilient.
Death and Dying is an oral history collection funded by the State Library of Western Australia and produced by Centre for Stories.
