As well as participating in the ongoing national bushfire response, Australia’s outbreak surge capacity workforce, the Masters of Philosophy in Applied Epidemiology (MAE) Program faculty and scholars are now supporting the state and territory, national, and global response to the developing COVID-19 outbreak.

We are actively involved in situational awareness, drafting clinical and public health guidelines, participating in briefing and planning meetings with hospital clinicians and managers, the development of templates for outbreak response, and the development of fact sheets for clinicians and the general public.

One of our 2nd year MAE scholars is deploying with the World Health Organization to support the Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila in the collection and analysis of epidemiological data in order to further understand what is happening with 2019nCoV across the Asia-Pacfic region.