Nicholas Ho

Nicholas has a Bachelor of Science in Bioinformatics, with specialist skills in data modelling with Power BI, machine learning, and data science. He brings diverse experience to the team, including working as an expert bioinformatics and statistical support for research into aggressive childhood cancer, malaria transmission, and most recently, mental health. He has supported the team through COVID-19 to build systems models, including for example the development of a system dynamics model of the social and economic impacts of COVID-19 on mental health in the Victorian context. This model informed investment decisions to mitigate the impacts of COVID-19 on mental health, simulating the likely short and longer term impacts of alternative scenarios on the prevalence of psychological distress, mental health-related ED presentations, self-harm hospitalisations, suicide deaths, and the proportion of young people (15-24 years) not in employment, education or training.