European experts are working closely together with their American counterparts on calculating future scenarios for Covid-19. One of them is Elizabeth Lee, an epidemiologist specialised in infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has been participating in the US...

Helen Johnson, mathematical modeller at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), explains how modelling teams around the world are working together to develop accurate and timely predictions of Covid-19 cases and deaths in Europe. These forecasts have become an invaluable tool for...

Interview with Tim Harford, UK economist, journalist and broadcaster, and author of books including How to Make the World Add Up.     What are your thoughts on the crossover between Covid-19 and the climate crisis, and how that’s being handled in the media?   Tim Harford: It’s probably worth starting...

Interview with Dr Jari Lyytimäki, senior researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute, and Erkki Mervaala, researcher at the Finnish Environment Institute.     In a recent study on the reporting of climate change in the Finnish media, you noted that coverage had seen a steep but not unprecedented...

Interview with Dr Marina Romanello, a data scientist in the Institute for Global Health at University College London who is also on the Lancet Countdown team, an international collaboration that tracks progress on health and climate change.     What are the main ways in which you view the current health...

Interview with Dr Tim Stevens, Senior Lecturer in Global Security at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, and head of the KCL Cyber Security Research Group.     In your view, is the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technologies bringing about a change...

Interview with Christopher Whyte, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Homeland Security & Emergency Preparedness program at Virginia Commonwealth University's L. Douglas Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs. Dr. Whyte's research focuses on issues of cyber conflict strategy with a particular interest...

Interview with Dr Sara Wilford, Senior Lecturer/Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Dr Wilford’s research interests include the theory and application of computer ethics, surveillance studies and responsible research and...