What can zombies teach us about public health?
Published in Oxford Science & Ideas Festival, 2025
I co-presented this science outreach session alongside Dr. Phil McEwan and Dr. Cerys Mitchell. We presented a look into the use of dynamic transmission modelling to quantify the impact of a zombie outbreak in England as part of the Oxford Science and Ideas Festival.
To help explain these concepts, our team put together a regionally-statified SEIR-like model which covers the 412 distinct regions in England. The audience is asked to assume the role of a zombie outbreak decision-makers, voting on which stratgies to adopt to tackle the zombie apocalypse.
We then relate this to the modelling of real diseases and the decision that must be made.