Dr Nic Geard

Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Information Systems, Melbourne School of Engineering, University of Melbourne

Health & Medicine

Privacy and health: The lessons of COVID-19

Despite public support, the COVIDSafe app failed to reach its download target. So, what are the implications for future policies that need citizens to share information?

Health & Medicine

What maths can tell us about the spread of the new coronavirus

Mathematical modelling gave us an early warning about the size of the coronavirus outbreak – now, researchers are doing the numbers daily to work out how the virus could spread