{"id":451,"date":"2021-04-11T21:10:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T01:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/acadic\/?page_id=451"},"modified":"2021-04-13T05:53:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T09:53:50","slug":"achievements-idrc-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/mathstats\/acadic\/achievements\/achievements-idrc-project\/","title":{"rendered":"IDRC AI4COVID Response Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Our South Africa team leader Prof Bruce Mellado was appointed by the Premier of Gauteng to the Gauteng COVID-19 Advisory Committee, where he leads modelling and predictive efforts. He works with an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, practitioners, physicists and mathematicians to solve modelling problems of such a complex system as the COVID-19 pandemic. Our models are the official models used by Gauteng Premier in his interactions with both local and national policy-makers. The Gauteng Province is the most populous province of South Africa with over 15.5 million inhabitants and hosts Johannesburg and Pretoria, the economic hub of the country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our work in South Africa has been covered on all main TV, Radio and newspapers of South Africa hundreds of times. A selection of news bits can be found here <\/a>. The South Africa team is regularly invited by the office of the Premier to participate in the press conferences given to the population to raise awareness of where we are in the pandemic and what measures need to be emphasized at any given time. The team has given over 60 presentations in the past 10 months to different work streams in the Gauteng Government, the War Room and the Provincial Command Centre chaired by the Premier of the Province, Hon. D. Makhura. Most of these presentations are given during closed doors sessions and cannot be shared here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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