Estimating the size of an Ebola outbreak: why the way people travel matters

Decentralising disease surveillance and modelling approaches will support equitable infectious disease responses

By sharing data analytics instead of raw data, federated approaches enable surveillance and modelling while respecting ethical and legal boundaries.

Professor Christl Donnelly awarded RSS Guy Medal in Silver

Oxford statistician Christl Donnelly has been awarded the Royal Statistical Society’s (RSS) Guy Medal in Silver in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the development and application of statistical and biomathematical methods to the analysis of infectious diseases.

Smartphone “epigames” could transform how we prepare for future pandemics

A new paper in Nature Health calls for behavioural experimentation to become a core pillar of pandemic preparedness, arguing that digital tools can help scientists test how people respond to outbreaks before the next global health crisis begins.

New programmes focus on AI threats, ‘second-life’ EV batteries and digital pandemic tools

The Oxford Martin School has announced three new programmes for 2024 that aim to develop research solutions to the most pressing 21st century issues. They will tackle the critical challenges of how we can improve our ability to detect attacks on AI systems; effectively redeploy electric vehicle batteries through ‘second-life’ schemes when they reach the end of their life; and optimally and ethically employ digital tools during a pandemic.