‘SLOW AND STEADY’ EXIT FROM LOCKDOWN AS VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT SETS SIGHTS ON ‘COVID-NORMAL’ CHRISTMAS – 7 September 2020 Expert University of Melbourne epidemiology and biostatistics [...]

Modelling by BoM moves ENSO Outlook to La Niña Alert status. Read more at the Bureau.

Jayashri Kulkarni, Professor of Psychiatry at Monash University, on the challenges of modelling in health. Read more in The Conversation

What will happen when we lose faith in modelling? Parnell Palme McGuinness in today’s Financial Review (Nine Media paywall access required).

We turn to epidemiologists and infectious disease models; during the Bubonic plague people turned to astrologers. [Read more history from UQ’s Michelle Pfeffer at The Conversation]

“If we are to reach a new normal, in many ways Sweden represents a future model.” [Analysis and statistics in today’s AFR ] – Nine Media paywall access required

Professor Jodie Mcvernon and a panel experts from across the University of Melbourne explore how mathematical modelling got us to this point, the new trace-and-track app, how it works and if it [...]