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'The Covid Response' by Shaun Hendy

25 August 2025 - 04 September 2025

Region(s): Auckland, Canterbury

Type(s): presentations

Bridget Williams Books invites you to two events with Professor Shaun Hendy MNZM FRSNZ, discussing his new book, The Covid Response.

In The Covid Response, Shaun offers an insider’s account of New Zealand’s science-driven strategy for confronting the global pandemic. As his team at Te Pūnaha Matatini springs into action, he takes us behind the scenes in real time. He unpacks the science informing rapid, high-stakes decisions, evaluating the costs of those decisions and asking what lessons they offer for the future.

Events

  • Auckland, 25 August: join Shaun in conversation with Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles MNZM and Toby Manhire.

  • Christchurch, 4 September: join Shaun in conversation with Rebecca Macfie.

For more information: www.bwb.co.nz/events?mc_cid=c3ab9d68e0&mc_eid=b565dfd9d7.

Activity ideas

Use this activity to learn some of the vocabulary associated with COVID-19.

These activities introduce some of the big science ideas related to our immune system.

  • The wars within

  • Fighting infection card game

  • Making snot

  • Spreading diseases

  • Ethical dilemmas in fighting infection

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Glossary

Published: 15 August 2025
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