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Should a life-saving, but expensive, cancer drug be made available on the NHS even though it only benefits very few people? We spoke to Joe Hilton, a health economist, to understand more about how difficult decisions like this one are made. 

Infectious diseases in hospitals cost lives and money. How can we best understand them?

Disruptions to public services are annoying – but that data about these disruptions is more useful than you might think.

We meet some of the researchers who are trying to translate between the two very different worlds of mathematics and politics.

Would you like to play a game?  Have an adventure?  Join us on an adventure in Model Land!

Researchers, policy makers and communicators have distilled out some key principles for making mathematical research more useful for policy makers.

Find out about a pioneering new project which builds mathematical models together with the people who are affected.

Find out about a pioneering new project which builds mathematical models together with the people who are affected by them.

To avoid full school closures in the next pandemic, or even epidemic, epidemiologists need crucial information from schools, students, and parents.

There's a romantic vision of mathematicians only needing pen and paper for their work. Here's why this is far from the truth when it comes to mathematical modelling, used to solve problems in the real world.

When a new infectious disease enters a population everything depends on who catches it — superspreaders or people with few contacts who don't pass it on.  We investigate the stochastic nature of the early stages of an outbreak.

Worried about your population of bugs? A branching process can help you understand it.