Nik Lomax

Conference website: https://igc2024dublin.org/ Abstract submission here: https://auth.oxfordabstracts.com/?redirect=/stages/6882/submitter I wanted to take this opportunity to invite submissions to six sessions that are being organised and convened by the Applied Geography Commission of the International Geographical Union (for which I am the Chair). Applied approaches for healthy public policy - welcomes submissions... [Read More]

This collection of sessions reflects on emerging challenges for post pandemic cities, takes stock of recent developments in urban analytics and city science, and explores how they have and are being deployed to support urban resilience, recovery and reconfiguration. Within these contexts, we are interested in both academic and practitioner... [Read More]

In this new paper, which is a collaboration between academic and private sector researchers, we build a microsimulation framework for modelling Covid-19 disease transmission within communities.we find that an earlier lockdown is estimated to result in a lower peak in COVID-19 cases and 47% fewer infections overall during the initial... [Read More]

I was delighted to be invited by the Geographical Society to give a talk about “Demographic Change and Population Projections” to secondary-school students. [Read More]

As part of my work on the System Science in Public Health and Health Economics Research project SIPHER, we have created a synthetic population of individuals for Great Britain. This dataset will be used as an input to dynamic models which are being used to assess policy interventions and health... [Read More]