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Orion Health research director and Precision Driven Health chief executive Kevin Ross
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has awarded Te Pūnaha Matatini the coveted 2020 Prime Minister’s Science Prize for their contribution to Aotearoa New Zealand’s globally-lauded COVID-19 response.
The transdisciplinary Te Punaha Matatini COVID-19 modelling team comprises researchers and experts from across academia, Crown Research Institutes and industry, and includes Orion Health data scientists Pieta Brown, Dr Ning Hua and Dr Kevin Ross.
The team was recognised for their tireless work in developing mathematical models, analysing data and communicating the results to inform the New Zealand Government’s response to the global pandemic. The results of this work were translated for Government policymakers and front-line operators.
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New Zealand has invested in health data science collaborations, particularly through a public-private partnership called Precision Driven Health, that puts clinicians, data scientists and software developers together to develop new models and tools to translate data into better decisions. (Getty/andrei r)
New Zealand, an island country of five million people in the Pacific, presents a globally-relevant case study in the application of robust, ethical data science for healthcare decision-making.
With a strong data-enabled health system, the population has successfully navigated several challenging aspects of both the pandemic response of 2020 and wider health data science advancements.
New Zealand’s diverse population comprises a majority of European descent, but major cohorts of the indigenous Māori population, other Pacific Islanders and Asian immigrants all makeup significant numbers. Further, these groups tend to be over-represented in nega