New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Science will save us! THE KIWI DAME FIGHTING COVID

‘The last year has shown that science can make a difference tomorrow’

A few years ago, Dame Juliet Gerrard sat next to Jacinda Ardern in an airport Koru Lounge. In between multitasking, the two exchanged small talk about Juliet’s daughter Lee. “She was a student at the time, so Jacinda was asking whether she was registered to vote,” Juliet recalls.

The scientist, 53, doubts the Prime Minister remembers the fleeting conversation – and little did the two know they’d eventually work closely together during

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