Impact in Collaborative Domains

We contribute to human health directly, particularly via research collaborations, covering a diversity of areas relevant to human health and wellness, and indirectly, including as enablers (via knowledge, methods, and tools) for other fields of research including medical science, and genomics.

Recent areas of focus for our collaborations and impact:  modelling donor experience at Red Cross Lifeblood Centres; helping hospital and health services to manage demand; modelling the spread of infectious diseases; understanding the geographical distribution of chronic disease; understanding and improving human performance (in elite athletes and sports); understanding the development of, and treatment options for, people with disabilities; and more.

Key Domain Collaborators include:

• Cancer Council Queensland (and other Australian Cancer Atlas collaborators)
• Australian Red Cross Lifeblood (blood donations)
• Hospitals and health services (including the Princess Alexandra Hospital and Royal Adelaide Hospital)
• Medical Research (incuding QIMR)
• Sax Institute (health policy)
• Queensland Academy of Sport and Australian Institute for Sport (human performance)
• R Package users (genomics)
• CSIRO (various)
• DST Group (dengue)
• New Zealand Health Ministry (learning from the Australian Cancer Atlas)
• The Developing Foundation (disabilities)

Humanity faces multiple existential threats, including from global warming and loss of biodiversity on land and in waters.

Our research helps understand and make predictions regarding environmental risks, and informs the monitoring and protection of biodiversity, ecosystems including the Great Barrier Reef, the environment, and industrial and human activities which impact these.

Indirectly, human health benefits from our work to improve environmental health and protect biodiversity and enable other fields of research important to health.

Key Domain Collaborators include:

• Australian Institute for Marine Science (Great Barrier Reef)
• CSIRO (various)
• Virtual Reef Diver citizen scientists
• VicRoads (sustainable transport)
• Healthy Land and Water (water quality and sensors)
• Department of Environment and Science (river and air quality)
• Cotton Research and Development Corporation (biodiversity)
• Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy
• NSW Office of the Chief Scientist and Engineer (water levels)
• Bureau of Meteorology (data integrity)

ACEMS helps organisations key to providing a peaceful and prosperous society (economically, socially and culturally). Economically, we help industry, innovation and infrastructure in a myriad of ways, both: (1) directly, including by: supporting specific sectors and organisations via research collaborations, tools including R packages, education and training, risk-free trials of new technologies (including machine learning), stress-testing algorithms and software, technology transfer, and access to human capital (including via co-supervisions and internships); and fostering innovation and entrepreneurship capabilities and action by ACEMS members; and (2) indirectly, including as an enabling discipline for transformative technologies which rely on frontier mathematical, statistical and data science knowledge, methods, tools and human capital (e.g. artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced manufacturing); innovation-driven ventures; the in-demand data science profession.  We also support maths education in schools and diversity in STEM.

Key Domain Collaborators include:

• MATILDA platform users (stress-testing algorithms)
• QLD Department of Social Services
• Australian Bureau of Statistics
• QLD Department of Agriculture and Fisheries
• AT&T
• DST Group (national security capabilities)
• Australian Taxation Office
• FLEW Solutions (advanced manufacturing)
• Simply for Strings (trial adoption of algorithm for supply chain management)
• The College of Law (workshops and briefings)
• CRAN and its community of R Package users