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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.

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.

Was the mathematical modelling projecting the course of the pandemic too pessimistic, or were the projections justified? Matt Keeling tells our colleagues from SBIDER about the COVID models that fed into public policy.

PhD student Daniel Kreuter tells us about his work on the BloodCounts! project, which uses maths to make optimal use of the billions of blood tests performed every year around the globe.

Invading mosquitoes and food poisoning in the production chain — there are a lot of questions epidemiologists address in their research.

Was vaccinating vulnerable people first a good choice? Hindsight allows us to assess this question.

Maths meets politics as early career mathematicians present their work at the Houses of Parliament.

Hear from the epidemiologists who have devoted their lives to fighting the pandemic.