Over the past year, we’ve all adapted to remote meetings, remote learning, and even remote pilates. But when it comes to running remote collaborative health research workshops, things can get trickier. We talked to the Sax Institute’s Cindy Peng, Decision Analytics Manager, about her experiences moving dynamic modelling workshops online during the pandemic, and some of the lessons (and challenges) of virtual workshops.
Programs: Decision Analytics
New modelling shows tracking app critical to containing COVID-19
A team from the Sax Institute has published independent COVID-19 modelling that projects a second wave but finds new cases could be slashed by over 50% if enough people use the COVIDSafe app and remaining issues with it are resolved.
Modelling shows tracking app critical to containing COVID second wave
Independent modelling published today projects a second wave of COVID-19 in Australia if social distancing and testing decline further – but new cases could be slashed by over 50% if enough people use the COVIDSafe app and remaining issues with it are resolved. While social distancing and high rates of testing remain the best ways … Read more
Can modelling the COVID-19 outbreak really predict its future?
This article was written by Cindy Peng, Manager of the Sax Institute’s Decision Analytics team, and Dr Danielle Currie, Senior System Dynamics Modeller at the Sax Institute. It was originally published in The Mandarin. A few short months ago, if you’d uttered the phrase “flattening the curve” in a public place, you’d have drawn blank … Read more
The art of modelling in a time of pandemic
As governments around the world rush to develop policies around the COVID-19 pandemic, they have turned to systems modelling to guide their response. Never has the discipline had a higher profile: we’ve all seen the graphs plotting possible outcomes of infection and fatality depending on the public health measures taken, and have become all too familiar with expressions such as ‘flattening the curve’.
What does the future of osteoporosis look like? Computer modelling might have the answer
Researchers at the Sax Institute have used a new ‘what if’ tool to forecast future states of osteoporosis and identify the best interventions for tackling this ‘silent disease.’