Dr Laxman Bablani

Research Fellow, Epidemiology And Econometrics, Melbourne School Of Population And Global Health, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

Health & Medicine

The strength of Sydney’s lockdown is crucial over the next 100 days

Speeding up the vaccine rollout in Sydney and New South Wales helps with the Delta outbreak, but lockdowns may matter more in the short term

Health & Medicine

We need to talk about elimination vs suppression in Australia again

New epidemiological and economic modelling finds that elimination is better than a suppression strategy for COVID-19

Health & Medicine

How long till Sydney gets out of lockdown?

New COVID-19 modelling finds NSW’s hard decision to go into hard lockdown gives the State more certainty about how long they’ll be stuck in there

Health & Medicine

Food Health Star labels are driving healthier products

Food labels are improving the nutrition of packaged products in Australia and New Zealand, but they must be compulsory to make a bigger difference

Health & Medicine

Flattening the curve to help Australia’s hospitals prepare

Mathematical and epidemiological modelling helps us understand whether Australia is flattening the COVID-19 curve and allows us to work backwards from a manageable health services demand – keeping it ‘just flat enough’