Modelling and Biostatistics Group

Head: Dr Nick Scott

Overview

Our dynamic, interdisciplinary team uses modelling to guide effective and cost-effective responses infectious diseases and global health problems. We are at the forefront of modelling across numerous thematic areas, including:

  • COVID-19
  • Hepatitis C
  • Hepatitis B
  • HIV
  • Tuberculosis
  • Malaria
  • Nutrition
  • Maternal, Newborn and Child health
  • Adolescent Health
  • Health systems and service delivery platforms

Our methodological approaches are adapted to the data available and key policy questions being addressed, and includes a variety of:

  • Deterministic and stochastic models
  • Population-level and agent-based models
  • Compartmental and network models
  • Costing studies
  • Cost-effectiveness analyses
  • Cost-benefit and return on investment analyses
  • Resource optimisation analyses
  • Analyses of large datasets using statistical and machine learning approaches

Staff Members

Programs

Contact Details

Doctor Nick Scott

Econometrician

Telephone

+61385062410

Email

[email protected]

Projects

  • COVASIM: Modelling COVID-19

  • Decision science using Optima

  • HCV Elimination Modelling

  • Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies

  • Hepatitis B Modelling

  • HMHB - Health Services for Postnatal and Infancy Care

  • SimDrink: Using simulation modelling to perform alcohol policy experiments

  • The Optimise Study: Optimising Isolation, Quarantine and Distancing for COVID-19

Staff Members

  • Aimée Altermatt

    Aimée Altermatt
    Research Assistant

  • Anna Roberts

    Anna Roberts
    Executive Business & Programs Manager, Optima Consortium for Decision Science

  • Anna Palmer

    Anna Palmer
    Research Assistant

  • Chris Seaman

    Chris Seaman
    PhD Student

  • Professor David Wilson

    Professor David Wilson
    Head of Infectious Disease Modelling

  • Doctor Debra ten Brink

    Doctor Debra ten Brink
    Research Assistant

  • Dominic Delport

    Dominic Delport
    Research Assistant

  • Doctor Farah Houdroge

    Doctor Farah Houdroge
    Mathematical Modeller

  • Doctor Katherine Heath

    Doctor Katherine Heath
    Research Officer

  • Doctor Nick Scott

    Doctor Nick Scott
    Econometrician

  • Doctor Rachel Sacks-Davis

    Doctor Rachel Sacks-Davis
    Research Officer

  • Doctor Romesh Abeysuriya

    Doctor Romesh Abeysuriya
    Senior Research Officer – Computational Epidemic Modelling

  • Doctor Rowan Martin-Hughes

    Doctor Rowan Martin-Hughes
    Senior Research Officer

  • Doctor Sherrie Kelly

    Doctor Sherrie Kelly
    Applications Team Lead

  • Doctor Tharindu Wickramaarachchi

    Doctor Tharindu Wickramaarachchi
    Mathematical Modeller

  • Tom Tidhar

    Tom Tidhar
    Research Assistant

  • Tom Walsh

    Tom Walsh
    Health Modeller