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

Discover more about Burnet’s modelling work in Episode 7 of our How Science Matters podcast

Highlights

  • In a commentary for The Medical Journal of Australia published on 2 August 2021, authors Professor Allan Saul, Professor Brendan Crabb AC, Dr Campbell Aitken and Professor Margaret Hellard AM recommend the implementation of more consistent stringent restrictions across Sydney.

Staff Members

Programs

Contact Details

Doctor Nick Scott

Head, Modelling & Biostatistics

Telephone

+61385062410

Email

nick.scott@burnet.edu.au

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

  • Optima HIV Modelling

  • Optima Malaria Modelling

  • Optima Nutrition Modelling

  • Optima Tuberculosis (TB) Modelling

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

Staff Members

  • Aimée Altermatt

    Aimée Altermatt
    Research Assistant

  • Alexander Thomas

    Alexander Thomas
    Health Economic Modeller

  • Anna Palmer

    Anna Palmer
    Honorary Associate

  • Doctor Anna Bowring

    Doctor Anna Bowring
    Senior Research Officer

  • Anna Roberts

    Anna Roberts
    Senior Project Manager

  • Chris Seaman

    Chris Seaman
    PhD Student/Research Assistant

  • Professor David Wilson

    Professor David Wilson
    Head of Infectious Disease Modelling

  • Doctor Debra ten Brink

    Doctor Debra ten Brink
    Senior Research Officer

  • Dominic Delport

    Dominic Delport
    Health modeller

  • Doctor Farah Houdroge

    Doctor Farah Houdroge
    Research Officer, Modelling & Biostatistics

  • Jacob Cumming

    Jacob Cumming
    Research Assistant

  • Doctor Katherine Heath

    Doctor Katherine Heath
    Research Officer

  • Doctor Nick Scott

    Doctor Nick Scott
    Head, Modelling & Biostatistics

  • Nisaa Wulan

    Nisaa Wulan
    Health Modeller

  • Phillip Luong

    Phillip Luong
    Mathematical Modeller

  • 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

  • Thomas Walsh

    Thomas Walsh
    Health Modeller

  • Tom Tidhar

    Tom Tidhar
    Research Assistant

  • Doctor Yinzong Xiao

    Doctor Yinzong Xiao
    Research Officer; Mathematical Modeller in Health