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?
The Earth's climate is a complex system. To make things easier scientists sometimes imagine a planet entirely covered in water. Watch some beautiful simulations of clouds and rain on the Aquaplanet!
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.
A digital heart might sound like science fiction, but these personalised mathematical descriptions of patients' hearts are already being put to the test.
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.
Will we one day have digital versions of our entire body to help us make medical and life style decisions and see what medical treatments are right for us? Find out in this podcast.
To avoid full school closures in the next pandemic, or even epidemic, epidemiologists need crucial information from schools, students, and parents.
