To work out how a disease will spread you need to know the time between infections.

How can we use mathematics to model the spread of a disease?

The doubling time of a disease is the time it takes for the number of cases of the disease to double. How do you calculate it?

What is the growth rate and what does it tell us about an epidemic?

Mathematics plays a central role in understanding how infectious diseases spread. This collection of articles looks at some basic concepts in epidemiology to help you understand this fascinating and important field, and set you up for further study.

New research reported at this year's Black Heroes of Mathematics conference is changing lives around the world.

Can mathematics help reshape our hospital networks?

Find out how the BloodCounts! project is using AI to make the best of the millions of full blood counts performed every year.

The BloodCounts! project is gearing up towards one of the largest-scale applications yet of machine learning in medicine and healthcare.

A mathematical, and personal, look into how we all had to balance the different harms of the virus and the steps we took against it.