JUNIPER
We are pleased to be part of JUNIPER, the Joint University Pandemic and Epidemic Research. JUNIPER is a collaborative network of researchers from across the UK who work at the interface between mathematical modelling, infectious disease control and public health policy. The content listed here is part of our collaboration with JUNIPER and you can find out more about the work of other JUNIPER members on their website. We received an award from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) for our work with JUNIPER communicating maths concepts to policy-makers and the public during the COVID-19 emergency.

Maths in a minute: QALYs
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What's a quality adjusted life year, or QALY?
Pandemics and psychology
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Can you capture people's behaviour in epidemiological models?
Reckoning with R: What will happen over autumn and winter?
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Should we again reduce our social contacts? Is vaccinating 12-to-15-year-olds effective? What about boosters? The ready reckoner helps provide some answers.
Winter is coming: Where are we going?
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What can we expect from the pandemic this winter and autumn?
COVID-19 and universities: What do we know?
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What can last year's experiences tell us about the coming academic year?
On the mathematical frontline: Ellen Brooks Pollock and Leon Danon
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Hear from the epidemiologists that have been fighting the pandemic in our special podcast series.
On the mathematical frontline: Mike Tildesley
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What do you actually do when you are modelling the COVID-19 pandemic? Find out with epidemiologist Mike Tildesley in our new podcast series.
Going with the flow: are lateral flow tests useful?
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Lateral flow tests have become a common feature in our lives. What impact can they have on managing COVID-19?
The Delta variant: What do we know?
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As the Delta variant is worrying the UK, researchers from the JUNIPER consortium have published all they know about it.
Maths in a minute: The positive predictive value
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When you receive a positive test result for a disease, the chance you actually have it depends on how common the disease is.
Will the virus escape the vaccines?
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Can the virus that causes COVID-19 mutate into a vaccine-resistant strain? And if yes, what would this mean for our vaccination strategy?
Keeping up with COVID-19
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Trying to work out the real time incidence of a disease in the middle of pandemic has never been done before, but the team behind the ONS COVID-19 Infection Survey have developed a way to do just that.