Every little bit helps

Uni Melbourne has $7.5m from the feds to continue to host the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, through to 2025

It was established as the Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis in 2006 and has been at Uni Melbourne ever since. The name changed to CEBRA in 2013.

The funding does not amount to much by Uni Melbourne standards, an $8m surplus last year is considered “a break even result.” But with the university budgeting $252m in new savings this year to meet continuing COVID-19 caused income loss every little bit will help (CMM February 26).

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