Location:
Webinar via Zoom
Cost
Free - registrations are essential. Please register on the booking link below.
Booking
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The COVID-19 crisis has brought mathematical modelling to the forefront of health policy making as never before, and led to new approaches and data sources to track and predict the course of the pandemic and its impacts. Modelling teams from UNSW’s School of Population Health and Kirby Institute have worked closely with the Doherty Modelling Consortium nationally, and the Ministry of Health in NSW over the past 18 months to support policy responses. Lead researchers from these teams will present key findings of this work in NSW, including analyses of mobility metrics from Google, Facebook and other sources; the impact of vaccine coverage on transmission; and the role of exposure sites on the spread of infection.
Presenters and discussants will also reflect on the strengths and limitations of modelling approaches in this fast-moving, high-profile context.
- Speakers:
- Associate Professor James Wood
- Dr Deborah Cromer
- Dr Nic Rebuli
- Discussants:
- Professor James McCaw and Dr Freya Shearer, University of Melbourne and members of Doherty Modelling Consortium
- Professor Andrew Wilson, Director Menzies Centre for Health Policy at University of Sydney and Advisor, Office of the NSW Chief Health Officer
- Chair: Professor John Kaldor
Co-hosted by Kirby Institute and School of Population Health at UNSW Sydney.
Opinions expressed in the Kirby Institute Seminar Series are solely those of the speaker and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the Kirby Institute or UNSW.