Curriculum Vitae

Dr Michael Lydeamore
Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics
Monash University

Email: michael.lydeamore@monash.edu

Appointments Held

Senior Lecturer - Econometrics and Business Statistics
Monash University

2021 —

COVID-19 Modelling & Forecasting Lead
Manager, Analytics
Department of Health and Human Services, Victoria

2020

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Monash University

2019 — 2021

Honorary Team Member
SaferCare Victoria

2019 –

Honorary Research Fellow
Alfred Health

2019 –

Research Fellow
The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales

2018 — 2019

Education

Doctor of Philosophy – Applied Mathematics
The University of Melbourne
Thesis title: Mechanistic and statistical models of skin disease transmission

2015 — 2019

Masters of Philosophy – Applied Mathematics
The University of Adelaide
Thesis title: Approximations of stochastic household models for comparing antiviral allocation schemes
Awarded the Applied Probability Trust prize for the highest mark with a project in Applied Mathematics and Statistics

 

2013 — 2014

Bachelor of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Adelaide
Graduated with a double major in applied and pure mathematics

2010 — 2013

Publications

Preprints

• Conway, E., Walker, C., Lydeamore, M., Golding, N., Ryan, G., Mavec, D., Oates, J., Kabashima, G., Price, D. J., Shearer, F., Cromer, D., Davenport, M. P., McCaw, J., Eriksson, E. M., Hodgkin, P. D., Wu, L., Le, T. P., Baker, C. M., Mueller, I., & McVernon, J. (2024). Optimal timing of booster doses in a highly vaccinated population with minimal natural exposure to COVID-19. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.14.24307386
• Lydeamore, M. J., Zachreson, C., Conway, E., Shearer, F. M., Baker, C. M., Ross, J. V., Miller, J. C., McCaw, J. M., Geard, N., McVernon, J., & Price, D. J. (2024). Border quarantine, vaccination and public health measures to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 importations: a modelling study. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.04.22.24305704
• Le, T. P., Conway, E., Akpan, E., Abell, I., Abraham, P., Baker, C. M., Campbell, P. T., Cromer, D., Lydeamore, M. J., McDonough, Y., Mueller, I., Ryan, G., Walker, C., Wang, Y., Carvalho, N., & McVernon, J. (2023). Cost-effective boosting allocations in the post-Omicron era of COVID-19 management. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.14.23298536

Peer-reviewed articles

• Lydeamore, M. J., Wu, D., Donker, T., Gorrie, C., Higgs, C. K., Easton, M., Hennessy, D., Geard, N., Howden, B. P., Cooper, B. S., Wilson, A., Peleg, A. Y., & Stewardson, A. J. (2024). Changes in isolation guidelines for CPE patients results in only mild reduction in required hospital beds. Infection, Disease & Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.idh.2024.10.004
• Lydeamore, M. J., Donker, T., Wu, D., Gorrie, C., Turner, A., Easton, M., Hennessy, D., Geard, N., Howden, B. P., Cooper, B. S., Wilson, A., Peleg, A. Y., & Stewardson, A. J. (2024). Carbapenemase-producing enterobacterales colonisation status does not lead to more frequent admissions: a linked patient study. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, 13(1), 82. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-024-01437-x
• Shearer, F. M., McCaw, J. M., Ryan, G. E., Hao, T., Tierney, N. J., Lydeamore, M. J., Wu, L., Ward, K., Ellis, S., Wood, J., McVernon, J., & Golding, N. (2024). Estimating the impact of test–trace–isolate–quarantine systems on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Australia. Epidemics, 47, 100764. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epidem.2024.100764
• Le, T. P., Abell, I., Conway, E., Campbell, P. T., Hogan, A. B., Lydeamore, M. J., McVernon, J., Mueller, I., Walker, C. R., & Baker, C. M. (2024). Modelling the impact of hybrid immunity on future COVID-19 epidemic waves. BMC Infectious Diseases, 24(1), 407. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-024-09282-4
• Conway, E., Walker, C. R., Baker, C., Lydeamore, M. J., Ryan, G. E., Campbell, T., Miller, J. C., Rebuli, N., Yeung, M., Kabashima, G., Geard, N., Wood, J., McCaw, J. M., McVernon, J., Golding, N., Price, D. J., & Shearer, F. M. (2023). COVID-19 vaccine coverage targets to inform reopening plans in a low incidence setting. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(2005), 20231437. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2023.1437
• Mitchell, B. G., Stewardson, A. J., Kerr, L., Ferguson, J. K., Curtis, S., Busija, L., Lydeamore, M. J., Graham, K., & Russo, P. L. (2023). The incidence of nosocomial bloodstream infection and urinary tract infection in Australian hospitals before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time series study. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, 12(1), 61. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-023-01268-2
• Zachreson, C., Shearer, F. M., Price, D. J., Lydeamore, M. J., McVernon, J., McCaw, J., & Geard, N. (2022). COVID-19 in low-tolerance border quarantine systems: Impact of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2. Science Advances, 8(14), eabm3624. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm3624
• Lydeamore, M. J., Mitchell, B. G., Bucknall, T., Cheng, A. C., Russo, P. L., & Stewardson, A. J. (2022). Burden of five healthcare associated infections in Australia. Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, 11(1), 69. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13756-022-01109-8
• Trauer, J. M., Lydeamore, M. J., Dalton, G. W., Pilcher, D., Meehan, M. T., McBryde, E. S., Cheng, A. C., Sutton, B., & Ragonnet, R. (2021). Understanding how Victoria, Australia gained control of its second COVID-19 wave. Nature Communications, 12(1), 6266. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26558-4
• McMahon, J. H., Lydeamore, M. J., & Stewardson, A. J. (2021). Bringing evidence from press release to the clinic in the era of COVID-19. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 76(3), 547–549. https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkaa506
• Zachreson, C., Mitchell, L., Lydeamore, M. J., Rebuli, N., Tomko, M., & Geard, N. (2021). Risk mapping for COVID-19 outbreaks in Australia using mobility data. Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 18(174), 20200657. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0657
• Sullivan, S. G., Brotherton, J. M., Lynch, B. M., Cheung, A., Lydeamore, M., Stevenson, M., Firestone, S., Canevari, J., Nguyen, H. N. J., & Carville, K. S. (2021). Population-based analysis of the epidemiological features of COVID-19 epidemics in Victoria, Australia, January 2020-March 2021, and their suppression through comprehensive control strategies. Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific, 17.
• Lydeamore, M. J. (2021). Mathematical models to support Victoria’s COVID-19 response: a blunt instrument to a complex problem. Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. https://austms.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Lydeamore.pdf
• Lydeamore, M. J., Campbell, P. T., Price, D. J., Wu, Y., Marcato, A. J., Cuningham, W., Carapetis, J. R., Andrews, R. M., McDonald, M. I., McVernon, J., Tong, S. Y. C., & McCaw, J. M. (2020). Estimation of the force of infection and infectious period of skin sores in remote Australian communities using interval-censored data. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(10), e1007838. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007838
• Cuningham, W., McVernon, J., Lydeamore, M. J., Andrews, R. M., Carapetis, J., Kearns, T., Clucas, D., Dhurrkay, R. G., Tong, S. Y. C., & Campbell, P. T. (2019). High burden of infectious disease and antibiotic use in early life in Australian Aboriginal communities. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 43(2), 149–155. https://doi.org/10.1111/1753-6405.12876
• Lydeamore, M. J., Campbell, P. T., Regan, D. G., Tong, S. Y. C., Andrews, R. M., Steer, A. C., Romani, L., Kaldor, J. M., McVernon, J., & McCaw, J. M. (2018). A biological model of scabies infection dynamics and treatment informs mass drug administration strategies to increase the likelihood of elimination. Mathematical Biosciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mbs.2018.08.007
• Lydeamore, M. J., Campbell, P. T., Cuningham, W., Andrews, R. M., Kearns, T., Clucas, D., Dhurrkay, R. G., Carapetis, J., Tong, S. Y. C., McCaw, J. M., & McVernon, J. (2018). Calculation of the age of the first infection for skin sores and scabies in five remote communities in northern Australia. Epidemiology & Infection, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268818001061
• Lydeamore, M. J. (2018). Mechanistic and statistical models of skin disease transmission. http://minerva-access.unimelb.edu.au/handle/11343/221232
• Vino, T., Singh, G. R., Davison, B., Campbell, P. T., Lydeamore, M. J., Robinson, A., McVernon, J., Tong, S. Y. C., & Geard, N. (2017). Indigenous Australian household structure: a simple data collection tool and implications for close contact transmission of communicable diseases. PeerJ, 5, e3958. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3958
• Lydeamore, M., Bean, N., Black, A. J., & Ross, J. V. (2016). Choice of Antiviral Allocation Scheme for Pandemic Influenza Depends on Strain Transmissibility, Delivery Delay and Stockpile Size. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11538-016-0144-6

Funding

Almost all of this funding was obtained in partnership with large, collaborative teams.

Modelling Work in Low and Middle Income Counties in the Western Pacific Region for the COVID-19 SAGE Working Group
World Health Organisation
Awarded value: $8,157

2024

Modelling To Support Australia’s Resilience to and Preparedness for Omicron And Future Sars-Cov-2 Variants
Commonwealth Government of Australia
Awarded value: $80,059

2024

Contractual Partner to Conduct Research on Healthcare-Associated Infection Rates in Phillippine Hospitals
World Health Organisation Phillippines
Awarded value: $72,078

2023

Centre of Western Public Health Unit
Contract Research
Awarded value: $25,000

2023

Extending and comparing methods for projecting social contact matrices
SPECTRUM/SPARK Seed Funding
Awarded value: $19,438

2022

Quantifying longitudinal relationships between community mobility and COVID-19 case incidence in west metropolitan Melbourne
SPECTRUM/SPARK Seed Funding
Awarded value: $19,896

2022

Modelling to support Australia’s national plan for COVID-19
Commonwealth Government of Australia
Awarded value: $147,536

2021

Modelling to support Australia’s transition to ‘COVID-normal’
Australian Office of Health Protection
Awarded value: $25,620

2021

Conference presentations and contributed talks

Networks of networks in infectious diseases modelling — Panelist
Infectious Diseases Modelling Conference

2024

Generating synthetic contact matrices using open-source data
Australia and New Zealand Industrial Applied Mathematics Conference

2024

Data-Driven Insights into Healthcare Challenges: Two Case Studies — Invited Speaker
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg Seminar Series

2023

Data-Driven Insights into Healthcare Challenges: Two Case Studies
UNSW Australia Statistics & Data Science Seminar

2023

Burden of healthcare associated infections in Australia
Australia and New Zealand Industrial Applied Mathematics Conference

2022

Exponential Random Graph Models and CPE transmission — Invited Speaker
Melbourne Mathematical Biology Seminar Series

2021

Mathematical modelling for COVID-19 in Victoria, Australia — Invited Speaker
Math for Industry Forum, Vietnam

2021

The associations between transmission of CPE and ward connectivity: a network analysis
Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Annual Scientific Meeting

2021

The burden of healthcare acquired infections in Australian public hospitals
Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Annual Scientific Meeting

2021

Decision Making and Mathematical Biology - Victoria’s usage of COVID-19 modelling — Invited Speaker
Mathematical Biology Special Interest Group Workshop

2021

Modelling between-household effective contact and the elimination of COVID-19 in Melbourne, Australia
Australia and New Zealand Industrial Applied Mathematics Conference

2021

Mathematical modelling and Victoria’s response to COVID-19 — Invited Speaker
Victorian ANZIAM Branch Meeting

2020

Australia’s experience and the role of modelling in its responses to COVID-19 — Invited Speaker
Usher Institute COVID-19 Webinar

2020

Estimating epidemiological quantities for skin sores in remote Australian communities using interval-censored data
Australia and New Zealand Industrial Applied Mathematics Conference

2019

Estimating epidemiological quantities for skin sores in remote Australian communities using interval-censored data
NSW–ACT ANZIAM Branch Meeting

2018

Coupled models of Group A Streptococcus and Scabies: How likely is eradication?
PRISM International Conference

2018

Investigating the dynamics of coupled epidemiological transmission models with application to Group A Streptococcus and Scabies
Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting

2018

Investigating the dynamics of coupled models with applications to Group A Streptococcus and Scabies
Australia and New Zealand Industrial Applied Mathematics Conference

2018

Quantifying the age of first infection with skin sores in five remote Australian Aboriginal communities
Lancefield International Symposium on Streptococci and Streptococcal Diseases

2017

Investigating the dynamics of coupled models with applications to Group A Streptococcus and Scabies
PRISM Annual Knowledge Transfer and Training Conference

2017

Constructing mathematical models of Group A Streptococcus and Scabies in remote Australian Indigenous communities — Invited Speaker
Zeeman Institute Seminar Series

2017

Developing a model for the transmission and treatment dynamics of scabies infections a high prevalence setting
Melbourne-Manchester Joint Workshop

2017

Developing a model for the transmission of Group A Streptococcus
Australia and New Zealand Industrial Applied Mathematics Conference

2017

Determining the age of first infection from incomplete data
Modelling Emerging Infections and Neglected Tropical Diseases Workshop

2016

Investigating Intervention Intervals for Scabies Infections
Australia and New Zealand Industrial Applied Mathematics Conference

2016

Teaching

Lecturer

[ETC5513] Reproducible and Collaborative practices (Chief Examiner)

2024–

[ETC5523] Communicating with Data (Chief Examiner)

2023–

[ETO5513] Reproducible and Collaborative practices (Chief Examiner)

2024–

[ETC5512] Wild-Caught Data

2022–2023

[ETC5521] Exploratory Data Analysis

2022

Tutor

[MAST10016] Mathematics for Biomedicine

2016–2019

[MAST30001] Stochastic Modelling

2018

Teaching Service

[M6036] Masters of Health Data Analytics – Course Management Committee

2024–

Awards

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

2024

SPECTRUM Annual Meeting - Best Presentation

2024

University of Melbourne Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Excellence Award in Interdisciplinary Research

2021

IPAA Spirit of Service Awards – Finalist

2021

Engagement Australia Excellence Awards — Outstanding Engagement for Research Impact — Finalist

2021

Top Poster Award — European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

2021

IPAA Victoria Leadership in the Public Sector Awards — Finalist

2021

Best PhD Student Presentation – PRISM\(^2\) Annual Conference

2017

Applied Probability Trust Prize for best Applied Mathematics Postgraduate Thesis

2016

Australian Postgraduate Award

2015

Dean’s Commendation for Thesis Excellence

2015

Academic Service & Community Engagment

Equity, Diversity & Social Inclusion Committee Department representative

2024 –

SPECTRUM Annual Meeting Organising committee

2024

SPARK Short Course in Mathematical Diseases Modelling — OUCRU
Facilitator

2023

Maths in Industry Study Group — NSW Health
Moderator

2023

WOMBAT Communicating with Data Workshop
Organising Committee

2023

Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Executive Committee
Treasurer

2022–

Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics Executive Committee
Early Career Representative

2021–2022

SPECTRUM-SPARK Early Career Researcher Committee
Chair

2022–

SPARK Short Course in Mathematical Diseases Modelling – Mahidol University
Facilitator

2022

Research Tools Workshop in R
Facilitator

2022

Mathematical Biology Special Interest Group
Treasurer

2019–2022

ANZIAM 2021 Conference
Organising Committee (Treasurer)

2020–2021

Computational Biology Research Initiative – The University of Melbourne
Postgraduate Representative

2017

Computational Biology Postgraduate Sports Group – The University of Melbourne
Secretary

2017–2018

Maths in Industry Study Group
Participant

2017, 2018, 2019

The ConocoPhilips Science Experience – The University of Melbourne
Activity Organiser

2016–2018

Mathematicians in Schools – CSIRO
Project Supervisor/Mentor

2016–2018

Reviewer
PLoS Comptuational Biology; Scientific Reports; Journal of Applied Mathematics; Journal of Statistical Software; Epidemiology & Infection; Mathematics; Medial Journal of Australia; International Tropical Health; Journal of Antimicrobial Resistance; The R Journal

Professional Memberships

Australian and New Zealand Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Including the Mathematical Biology Special Interest Group

2015–

Australian Mathematics Society

2015–