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Diffusion Science radio2025 Prime Minister's Prize for ScienceDistinguished Professor Lidia Morawska from the Queensland University of Technology won the 2025 Prime Minister's Prize for Science. I spoke with her in 2021 about how we can improve indoor air quality to reduce the transmission of COVID19, and other airborne diseases.
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2025-11-0900 min
Sunday Extra - Separate stories podcastPM's Prize for Science winner Lidia Morawska clears the airThe winner of the Prime Minister's Prize for Science this year was Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska from the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at QUT. Lidia has done pioneering research into the air we breathe to safeguard public health and our environment, inlcuding during the COVID 19 pandemic. Now she wants to mandate air quality indoors.Guest: Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska, QUT and Director of the International Laboratory of Air Quality and Health
2025-11-0816 min
The Science Show - Separate stories podcast2025 Prime Minister's Prizes for ScienceDistinguished Professor Lidia Morawska from the Queensland University of Technology has received the 2025 Prime Minister’s Prize for Science for her pioneering research which transformed how the world understands the airborne transmission of disease and indoor air pollution.
2025-11-0735 min
Health Report - Separate stories podcastFlu deaths surpass COVID deathsFor the first time since February 2020, there were more flu deaths than COVID deaths in August. A study finds an association between COVID infection in pregnancy and neurodevelopmental diagnoses at three years old. And the Prime Minister's Prize for Science goes to physicist and air quality expert Lidia Morawska.ReferencesDeaths due to acute respiratory infections in Australia - ABSNeurodevelopmental Outcomes of 3-Year-Old Children Exposed to Maternal Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Infection in Utero
2025-11-0710 min
4BC Breakfast with Peter FeganBrisbane Professor wins PM's prize for proving COVID-19 was airborneProfessor Lidia Morawska joined Sofie Formica to celebrate winning the Prime Minister's Prize for Science for her critical work in proving that COVID-19 was airborne. It was a finding that saved countless lives and forced the World Health Organisation to change its advice after a three-month battle.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
2025-11-0506 min
PODCASTY WSIiZ„Fascynacja powietrzem może być zaraźliwa!” - prof. Lidia MorawskaCzerwony pył z Sahary, o którym pisał Homer w Iliadzie, niebieska mgła, o której wspominał już Leonardo da Vinci, smog w Londynie w 1952 roku, który przyczynił się do śmierci ponad 12 tys. osób. To przykłady, które pokazują, że ludzie od dawna mają świadomość problemów związanych z powietrzem. O tym, co kryje się w powietrzu, podczas swojego wykładu pt. „Fascynacja powietrzem może być zaraźliwa!” opowiedziała prof. Lidia Morawska, niezwykła kobieta i wybitna uczona.
2025-10-0956 min
Air Quality MattersOne Take #11 - Turning Low-Cost Air Quality Sensors into Compliance ToolsSend us a textLidia Morawska's paper provides a pragmatic framework for using low-cost PM2.5 sensors in regulatory indoor air quality monitoring, solving the longstanding problem of affordable compliance without sacrificing accuracy. This clever calibration system transforms inexpensive sensors into reliable monitoring networks by using yearly reference calibrations of key sensors and applying correction factors across similar devices.• Low-cost sensors have revolutionized air quality monitoring but face accuracy challenges with PM2.5 measurement• Traditional reference monitors are too expensive and complex for widespread indoor deployment• Morawska's framework uses a network approach with designated reference sensors...
2025-07-3108 min
Poranna Rozmowa Radia Centrum[PRRC]: prof. Lidia MorawskaChoć coraz więcej mówi się o ekologii, jakość powietrza w Polsce wciąż pozostawia wiele do życzenia. Tym bardziej znaczące jest uhonorowanie prof. Lidii Morawskiej tytułem doktora honoris causa Politechniki Lubelskiej. Naukowczyni, uznana przez Time za jedną ze 100 najbardziej wpływowych osób świata, od lat bada wpływ powietrza na zdrowie człowieka.Na rozmowę zaprasza Marek Skowronek.
2025-05-2016 min
Good Will HuntersSDG3.9 - Reducing Deaths and Illnesses from Hazardous Air, with Dr Bronwyn King AO, Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska and Anna-Maria ArabiaWelcome to Episode 8 of Good Will Hunters in our series on SDG3 – Good Health and Wellbeing. I am your host, Rachel Nunn.
This episode is the final in our series and focuses on SDG3.9 – Substantially reducing the number of deaths and illnesses caused by hazardous chemicals, air, water, and soil pollution and contamination. Poor air quality remains a significant health challenge, especially in low- and middle-income countries, where pollution disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations.
Today, I’m joined by three exceptional guests: Professor Lidia Morawska, a leading expert on air quality and its health impacts; Dr. Bronwyn King, a globally recognized radiat...
2024-12-0939 min
Outstanding Polish WomenLidia Morawska
A physicist specialising in research on air quality and its impact on human health, Professor Morawska helped stop the COVID-19 pandemic by proving the virus is airborne.
2024-12-0605 min
The Medical Journal of AustraliaMJA Podcasts 2022 Episode 42: Healthy Indoor air quality: why it's important, with Prof Lidia MorawskaVol 217, Issue 10: 14 November 2022. Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska is Director of the International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health at QUT in Brisbane, a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre. Her coauthored MJA Perspective on the need for Australian standards for indoor air quality is available here. Prof Morawska is a member of OzSAGE. Their advice on ventilation and air quality is available here. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.
2022-11-1226 min
Infection Control MattersTransmission paradigms - the view from Engineers and Physicists with Profs Cath Noakes and Lidia MorawskaIn this episode, Martin and Brett get views on contact/droplet/airborne transmission from an Engineer (Prof Cath Noakes) and a Physicist (Prof Lidia Morawska).
Prof Catherine Noakes OBE is Professor of Environmental Engineering for Building at the University of Leeds. She is a chartered mechanical engineer, with a background in fluid dynamics. Her teaching and research expertise is in building physics and environmental engineering and leading research into ventilation, indoor air quality and infection control in the built environment. Her internationally recognised group carry out experimental and modelling based studies, in particular to explore the transport...
2022-10-1928 min
2021-11-1934 minInfection Control MattersThe science of pathogen transmission via the air with Prof Lidia Morawska - ACIPC conference specialIn this third special edition from the 2021 ACIPC Conference, Brett and Martin talk to Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska about the science of air. Lidia was named in Times magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world for helping highlight the airborne spread of COVID-19. Topics includes in this podcast include the science of aerosolisation from the respiratory tract, activities or source that dictate particle size and terminology around droplet and airbourne transmission.
About Lidia:
Professor Lidia Morawska is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, at the Queensland U...
2021-11-1238 min
The Random SampleClearing the Air on COVID-19Our guest is QUT Distinguished Professor Lidia Morawska who led the push to get health organisations to finally recognise the airborne spread of COVID-19. She is now leading an effort to change the way buildings and homes are ventilated to help prevent the spread of not just COVID, but other respiratory illnesses like the flu and the common cold. The Random Sample is a podcast by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers. In this show, we share stories about mathematics, statistics and the people involved. To learn more about ACEMS, visit https://acems.org...
2021-08-2433 minDiffusion Science radioVentilation stops the spreadProfessor Lidia Morawska from the Queensland University of Technology talks about how we can improve indoor air quality to reduce the transmission of COVID19
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2021-08-0900 min
Unexpected ElementsCovid and clean airWe wouldn’t drink dirty water so why do we put up with polluted air? Researchers are calling for a major rethink on our attitude to air quality. Professor Lidia Morawska, from the Queensland University of Technology, says attention to air quality during the Covid pandemic has shown how levels of airborne disease can be reduced. Sam Wilson from the UK Medical Research Council, University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research has been investigating genetic mechanisms associated with susceptibility to Covid infection. His team has identified a molecule that detects SARS-COV-2 when it starts to replicate in ou...
2021-05-1659 min
Science In ActionCovid and clean airWe wouldn’t drink dirty water so why do we put up with polluted air? Researchers are calling for a major rethink on our attitude to air quality. Professor Lidia Morawska, from the Queensland University of Technology, says attention to air quality during the Covid pandemic has shown how levels of airborne disease can be reduced. Sam Wilson from the UK Medical Research Council, University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research has been investigating genetic mechanisms associated with susceptibility to Covid infection. His team has identified a molecule that detects SARS-COV-2 when it starts to replicate in ou...
2021-05-1331 min
Healthy SpacesSeeing the Future through Lessons of the Past15 years ago, Lidia Morawska from Queensland University gave a presentation on strategies to prevent the global spread of an invisible but deadly enemy - SARS. Years later, that same presentation has remained unnervingly relevant as she talks with global leaders about preventative measures to stop the spread of COVID-19. But this time she’s hopeful: if society bands together, our lessons of the past can pave the way for a better future.Together with host Rasha Hasaneen, Lidia lays out what must change in the planning and development of indoor environments, and the essential coordination among multidisciplinary gr...
2021-01-0725 min
La Hora De La BiologíaEspecial COVID-19. Transmisión, síntomas y respuesta inmunitaria.Continuamos el especial COVID-19 en La Hora De La Biologia. En el capítulo de hoy hablaremos de un tema nada mainstream como es el Coronavirus. En la parte 2 repasaremos las principales vías de transmisión del virus, gotículas, superficies y aerosoles. ¿Estamos a salvo con la distancia de seguridad? A parte de los perdigones que soltamos al hablar también liberamos pequeñas gotas que pueden viajar más de dos metros.
También recordamos los principales síntomas del COVID-19 y profundizamos en cómo el COVID-19 puede entrar en nuestro organismo y cómo es la...
2020-10-2735 min