Pandemic Warriors

Season 1

Meet people from across Asia and the Pacific who, alongside Australian collaborators, have turned the COVID-19 crisis into an opportunity to improve life for their communities, often in surprising ways.

Where to Watch Pandemic Warriors • Season 1

13 Episodes

  • Inside Timor's Covid Testing Lab
    E1
    Inside Timor's Covid Testing LabAgainst the odds, Nevio Sarmento and his team of medical professionals raced to set-up Timor Leste's first COVID-19 testing facility with the help of Australia's Menzies School of Health Research.
  • Underwater Frontliners
    E2
    Underwater FrontlinersWith the world's eyes on COVID, the Sea Women of Melanesia, an all women dive team have been working to protect one of the world most important coral ecosystems with support from the Australia-based Coral Sea Foundation.
  • How Covid Changed Teaching in One Indonesian Province
    E3
    How Covid Changed Teaching in One Indonesian ProvinceAs COVID shuts schools in Indonesia, an innovative volunteer program gets student teachers supporting rural kids to learn at home, sparking a long-term change to the university curriculum for primary school teachers.
  • Vanuatu Reimagines Tourism
    E4
    Vanuatu Reimagines TourismIn Vanuatu, one way to help revitalize a COVID decimated tourism industry is through local food. Votausi Reur-Mckenzie, the 'Queen of Ni-Van cuisine' and National Agritourism Coordinator, is showing how it's done.
  • Mary breaks taboos
    E5
    Mary breaks taboosWith COVID threatening global supply chains, we follow the determined Kaleko SteiFree team, lead by Mary Ramosaea, as they continue to produce and distribute the Solomon Islands' only reusable sanitary product.
  • When a Doctor Becomes a Patient
    E6
    When a Doctor Becomes a PatientContracting tuberculosis has helped Dr Thu Anh Nguyen better understand her own work, leading TB research in Vietnam. Now she is advocating to end the disease with the same proactive response taken for COVID-19.
  • Timor Leste's sisterhood
    E7
    Timor Leste's sisterhoodSidalia Rego has dedicated her life to defending women's rights. As COVID-19 spread, she helped set-up Timor Leste's first sisterhood of support so that the feminist movement can thrive even in the toughest of times.
  • Solomon Islands' Climate Defenders
    E8
    Solomon Islands' Climate DefendersWhen the seas swallowed her grandparents' home, Gladys Habu was compelled to become a climate activist. Teaming up with Australian researcher Simon Albert, she took her call to tackle the climate crisis onto the world stage.
  • Welcome to the Science Circus
    E9
    Welcome to the Science CircusFollow two young Samoans and their Australian mentor as they prepare and deliver a show that entertains but also deeply affects its audience as the science of climate change is revealed.
  • COVID's Hidden Scars
    E10
    COVID's Hidden ScarsIn Cambodia, COVID lock downs triggered memories of a brutal past for many Khmer Rouge survivors. We go behind the scenes at the nation's only suicide hotline, which has seen a spike in calls for help.
  • Healthcare Hits the Airwaves
    E11
    Healthcare Hits the AirwavesHaving started her career as a nurse in Fiji's most remote places, Sister Selina knows what it's like to be the only nurse on the front line. When COVID hit, she was instrumental setting-up a radio show for remote nurses.
  • Power for the People
    E12
    Power for the PeopleTwo social entrepreneurs from Australia and Cambodia are using innovative technology to tackle smoke pollution as well as climate change as COVID-19 presents unexpected obstacles and opportunities.
  • Fiji's Race to Vaccinate
    E13
    Fiji's Race to VaccinateAs a second deadly wave of COVID-19 sweeps Fiji, we go behind the scenes of the country's vaccine roll-out with Dr. Rachel Pillay, who is leading the effort.

 

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