Carina Joe’s AstraZeneca story. An idealistic young Indonesian woman helps to bring hope to us in a time of crisis

Dr Carina Citra Dewi Joe in the lab, Welcome Centre to Human Genetics, Oxford University.

For a few months Dr Carina Jo and her team in Oxford University laboratory worked hard making sure that mass production of AstraZeneca vaccine could be realised Source: Courtesy Dr Carina Joe - Oxford University Aug-Sep 2021.

The rush to develop and distribute an anti COVID-19 vaccine has raised many practical and ethical questions in particular the issue of equitable distribution both domestically and internationally. However, a young Indonesian woman who played a key role in developing an approach to large scale production of the AstraZeneca vaccine has only selfless motives.

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Published 8 October 2021 1:03am

Updated 12 October 2021 12:17am

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The rush to develop and distribute an anti COVID-19 vaccine has raised many practical and ethical questions in particular the issue of equitable distribution both domestically and internationally. However, a young Indonesian woman who played a key role in developing an approach to large scale production of the AstraZeneca vaccine has only selfless motives.

Dr Carina Citra Dewi Joe is a researcher at the Jenner Institute in England. She is one of the patent holders for the AstraZeneca vaccine. In early September, Dr Carina explains to Sri Dean her role in the development of the vaccine and her hopes for its use. And there is an Australian connection.