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30 May 2023

Eighteen months on: Where are they now?

Eighteen months since the awards were announced and the prizes distributed, where are they now?

06 April 2022

Relief, regret or resent? 'Freedom' protests suggest the latter

Perceptions of the importance & effectiveness of the vaccines declined between June 2020 & January 2022.

31 January 2022

The Innovators Behind the Innovations

They may not have yelled 'Eureka!', but we did when we heard about their solutions. Find out what makes them award winners.

25 January 2022

Over 11 billion doses of vaccine have been produced worldwide

But in economically disadvantaged countries, many frontline health workers have still not been vaccinated.

17 December 2021

The government of Victoria's strategy for reopening has been guided by the University of Melbourne's modelling

The use of data-driven methods and the adoption of computational models allows for science-based policy decisions.

24 November 2021

The price of our failure to address the silent pandemic

We need to take AMR seriously and act quickly. By 2050, projections indicate that we could be looking at 10 million extra deaths a year worldwide, with lost global economic output of $100 trillion.

16 November 2021

We have the potential to prevent pandemics

"In my experience, no community is too hard to reach, no country is too poor to innovate, and curiosity outshines fear across the globe," says Dr Mark Smolinski, writing in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

07 October 2021

Joint 2nd prize winners, Sentinel Forecasting, publish research on Lassa fever

The Sentinel team's research looks at the occurrence and incidence of Lassa fever in relation to climate, poverty, agriculture and urbanisation.

01 October 2021

Prof Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb discusses how algorithms can save lives

Unused, discarded data points from billions of routine blood tests are a potential treasure trove for disease detection.

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