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Modelling for transport policy interventions

19 Oct 2021 | News & Events

19 October 2021 Julie Mugford is applying the skills that she learned through her doctoral project with Te Pūnaha Matatini to a career across the public service. As she entered the final year of her PhD in 2020, Julie Mugford spotted an advertisement for a role with...

Estimates of new onset of COVID-like illness, symptomatic population, and testing rates

18 Oct 2021 | COVID-19

18 October 2021 Using the FluTracking survey data for 2021 up until the week ending 29 August 2021, we can estimate the weekly incidence (new onset) of COVID-19-like symptoms within different age groups and different parts of the country. We use this to produce an...

Estimates of effects on changing Alert Levels for the August 2021 outbreak

18 Oct 2021 | COVID-19

18 October 2021 Report delivered 9 September 2021, this version compiled 15 October 2021. We use an individual-based, Aotearoa-specific Contagion Network Model (CNM) to simulate the spread of COVID-19 in the community for an outbreak comparable to that detected on 17...

Making a global impact in predicting and preventing pandemics

11 Oct 2021 | News & Events

11 October 2021 Professor David Hayman made a global impact in 2020 with his contributions to the report on biodiversity and pandemics by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). David Hayman is an epidemiologist and Principal...

A biosecurity risk framework for forestry in Aotearoa New Zealand

8 Oct 2021 | News & Events

8 October 2021 In her role with Scion, Dr Rebecca Turner is working with stakeholders in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally using data to predict biosecurity risk. Dr Rebecca Turner joined Scion as a postgraduate fellow in 2018, co-funded by the Biological...