News and events

17 April 2020

COVID-19 and mental health: Q&A with Dr Lexine Stapinski

Dr Lexine Stapinski answers your questions about where vulnerable people can get help during these difficult times.

17 April 2020

Neuroscience-based harm reduction for older adolescents

Jennifer Debenham is a PhD candidate at the Matilda Centre. Her research aims to unite and empower young people to engage in positive health behaviours around alcohol and drug use through a brain-based drug education program, known as ‘The Illicit Project’.

15 April 2020

Sydney researchers develop NSW COVID-19 hotspot database

By pinpointing COVID-19 cases by postcode and socio-economic status, the researchers hope to enable the government to easily identify areas at risk of greater community transmission, as well as relax quarantine measures on a postcode-by-postcode basis.

14 April 2020

US COVID-19 deaths "poorly predicted" by IHME model

An international group of data scientists led by the University of Sydney's Centre for Translational Data Science has found that over 70 percent of US states had death rates that were inconsistent with IHME predictions.

14 April 2020

Commemorating humanitarian Catherine Hamlin

Sydney graduate Dr Catherine Hamlin AC devoted her life to helping ostracised Ethiopian women. Almost fifty years after founding a hospital to treat patients most in need, Dr Hamlin has passed away.