Overview

Our dynamic, interdisciplinary team works at the forefront of optimising maternal and child health, nutrition and infectious disease programs.

We use our models to generate scientific evidence to guide policy decisions across a range of public health issues, including:

• infectious disease control and elimination
• program implementation
• strategic planning
• resource optimisation.

In close partnership with the World Bank we have developed a collection of ‘Optima’ models to link interventions and their costs with their impact, perform scenario analyses, predict epidemiological trends and optimise spending.

Optima tools have already been used by over 40 countries across Eastern Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa to guide resource allocation towards the most cost-effective mix of programs, and to assist with national strategic and operational planning.

Projects

• Decision science using Optima
  Research and applications across disease areas to improve allocative efficiency.
• HCV Elimination Modelling
  Providing evidence-based policy recommendations for prevention, testing and treatment of Hepatitis C.
• Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
  A collaborative research program aimed at providing life-saving health care for women and children in PNG.
• HMHB - Health Services for Postnatal and Infancy Care
  Focuses on services during postnatal period and through the first 12 months in East New Britain, PNG.
• Scenario analysis for programmatic tuberculosis control in Western Province, Papua New Guinea
  Construction of a mathematical model to simulate the TB epidemic in Western Province of PNG, which will be used to inform programmatic responses.
• SimDrink: Using simulation modelling to perform alcohol policy experiments
  An agent-based model of young, heavy drinkers for conducting alcohol policy experiments.
• TB-MAC Multi-modelling Exercise
  TB-MAC is an international consortium of modellers, coordinated through the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.