How Equipped Is New Zealand To Manage Bird Flu?

UC researchers are developing technology to speed up response times to serious biosecurity and epidemic threats such as bird flu.

 

University of Canterbury Associate Professor of Data Science Alex Gavryushkin is co-leading work on new algorithms that could provide real-time predictions in response to health and biosecurity events — including the Avian influenza.

“Our algorithms can present a range of possible outbreak scenarios, rather than just the one that’s the most statistically plausible, as well as updating their predictions in real time,” Associate Professor Gavryushkin says.