Professor James McCaw

Professor, Mathematical Biology, School of Mathematics and Statistics & Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

Watch Episode 1: Life Beyond Coronavirus: The Expert View

Flattening the Curve is a term that’s trending right now but there’s a lot of confusion about what it means

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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

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Health & Medicine

Forecasting flu outbreaks

New software based on statistical probability principles is helping forecast our flu season, and could also identify the level of threat of a bioterrorist attack

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