Modelling society

Computational social science has come to the fore in the COVID-19 response, allowing policy makers to trial policies on ‘artificial societies’ and see the results – before doing it in real life.

New QUT model offers a glimmer of hope

Covidwave.org, a new, more accurate pandemic predictor devised at QUT, suggests the worst of the crisis has passed in Australia, but that there will be many more deaths elsewhere.

Breathing space

Mathematical and epidemiological modelling helps us understand whether Australia is flattening the COVID-19 curve and allows us to work backwards from a manageable health services demand – keeping it ‘just flat enough’.