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The growth rate of a disease
What is the growth rate and what does it tell us about an epidemic?
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Disease modelling for beginners
This collection of articles looks at some basic concepts in epidemiology and how mathematics plays a central role in understanding how infectious diseases spread.
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R and herd immunity
What is herd immunity and what does it have to do with a number called R?
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New understanding of a neglected disease
New research reported at this year's Black Heroes of Mathematics conference is changing lives around the world.
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Can data science help rebuild our trauma networks?
Can mathematics help reshape our hospital networks?
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BloodCounts!
Find out how the BloodCounts! project is using AI to make the best of the millions of full blood counts performed every year.
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Revolutionising the power of blood tests using AI
The BloodCounts! project is gearing up towards one of the largest-scale applications yet of machine learning in medicine and healthcare.
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Julia Gog's mathematical toolkit for pandemics
A mathematical, and personal, look into how we all had to balance the different harms of the virus and the steps we took against it.
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SBIDER Presents: Shining a light on COVID modelling
Was the mathematical modelling projecting the course of the pandemic too pessimistic, or were the projections justified? Matt Keeling tells our colleagues from SBIDER about the COVID models that fed into public policy.
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Mathematical snapshots: Daniel Kreuter
PhD student Daniel Kreuter tells us about his work on the BloodCounts! project, which uses maths to make optimal use of the billions of blood tests performed every year around the globe.
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Climate change and ready meals: Challenges for epidemiologists
Invading mosquitoes and food poisoning in the production chain — there are a lot of questions epidemiologists address in their research.
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Learning from COVID: How good was the UK's vaccination strategy?
Was vaccinating vulnerable people first a good choice? Hindsight allows us to assess this question.