The OUTBREAK consortium has adopted a high-performance, highly-flexible approach to turning masses of data into useful products and services to address drug-resistant infections. It’s a new way of working for a multi-agency team that’s on the hunt for information to...
What do shopping centres, waterways and the jobless rate have in common? Well, if you combine them with local health data, you can start to map and predict the risk of antibiotic-resistance across Australia. A wide range of medical, health, demographic and geospatial...
A big hurdle in the fight against antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is helping Australians to understand how extensive the problem is for the whole population, not just sick people. University of Wollongong molecular microbiologist Associate Professor Martina...
OUTBREAK is a significant opportunity for Australia to lead the global knowledge economy, according to Mimesis Technology chief data scientist and CEO David McCloskey. As a leading figure in social demographics and advanced analytics, Mr McCloskey believes the...
The success of OUTBREAK would put Australia at the forefront of using machine learning to fight antimicrobial resistance (AMR), according to bioinformatician and data scientist Nicole Wheeler from the Centre of Genomic Pathogen Surveillance at the Wellcome Sanger...
As Asia-Pacific healthcare advisor for Oracle, Peter Williams has a keen interest in the junction between health, education and the research sector. Here he explains the multinational tech company’s involvement with OUTBREAK… Oracle’s mission is about...
