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March 12, 2021

We’ve designed a safe ‘virtual’ epidemic. Spreading it is going to help us learn about COVID

Yoni Nazarathy, The University of Queensland and Peter Taylor, The University of Melbourne

COVIDSafe was only able to detect a handful of cases successfully, but that doesn’t mean Bluetooth isn’t a helpful tool for addressing viral spread.

The health sector can learn from other industries that turn to operations research to fix everyday challenges. Anna Jurkovska/Shutterstock

March 22, 2016

Hospitals don’t need increased funding, they need to make better use of what they’ve got

Mark Mackay, Flinders University; Campbell Thompson, University of Adelaide; Don Campbell, Monash University; Geoff McDonnell, UNSW ; Joachim Sturmberg, University of Newcastle; Leonid Churilov, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; Malgorzata O'Reilly, University of Tasmania; Mark Fackrell, The University of Melbourne; Nigel Bean, University of Adelaide; Paul Harper, Cardiff University; Peter Taylor, The University of Melbourne; Robert Adams, University of Adelaide; Terry Young, Brunel University of London; David Green, University of Adelaide; Jennifer Morgan, Cardiff University; Sally McClean, Ulster University, and Thierry Chaussalet, University of Westminster

Fixing the hospital system is not just a matter of more funding. Hospitals need to work smarter, not harder.

The recent wild weather dumped more than 100 mm of rain on Sydney in a day. AAP Image/David Moir

April 27, 2015

Explainer: was the Sydney storm ‘once‑in‑a‑century’?

Kate R Saunders, The University of Melbourne; David Karoly, The University of Melbourne, and Peter Taylor, The University of Melbourne

The recent wild weather that lashed New South Wales has been described as ‘once-in-a-century’. But how often does it really happen?

As the queue grows, small increases in waiting times soon turn into dramatic spikes. Fotoluminate LLC/Shutterstock

July 10, 2014

GP co‑payment would increase emergency department wait times

Mark Mackay, Flinders University; Campbell Thompson, University of Adelaide; Dale Ward, Flinders University; David Green, University of Adelaide; Don Campbell, Monash University; Geoff McDonnell, UNSW ; Leonid Churilov, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health; Malgorzata O'Reilly, University of Tasmania; Mark Fackrell, The University of Melbourne; Nigel Bean, University of Adelaide; Peter Taylor, The University of Melbourne; Robert Adams, University of Adelaide, and Shaowen Qin, Flinders University

The introduction of a GP co-payment could see average emergency department visits increase by between six minutes and almost three hours, new modelling shows, as more patients opt for free hospital care…

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