Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health
University of Melbourne
Dr Shearer’s work is focused on mitigating the impact of infectious diseases on society by integrating approaches from mathematical and statistical modelling and decision science. During the pandemic she has assisted Australia’s response to COVID-19 by using models to assist Australian and regional governments, and providing media commentary on the epidemiology and the scientific evidence underpinning Australia’s response. Her team has performed real-time monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 transmissibility to inform Australia’s national re-opening plan. Freya completed her PhD at the University of Oxford in 2018 and she is currently a Senior Research Fellow in Infectious Diseases Dynamics at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne.