Yuval Berman

Yuval Berman is a PhD student and PartTime Lecturer at The University of Western Australia's UWA Medical School, affiliated with the Global Disease Modelling team and Geospatial Health and Development Team at The Kids Research Institute Australia under Professor Melissa Penny's supervision.

He holds an Honours degree in Applied Mathematics from UWA (2022), where his thesis analyzed Western Australia's COVID-19 vulnerability using mobility data to assess outbreak risks and vaccination thresholds.

His research specializes in computational disease modelling, integrating geospatial and mathematical epidemiology approaches to address malaria transmission dynamics and epidemic control strategies. Current work focuses on spatiotemporal malaria prevalence modelling in sub-Saharan Africa and age-specific infection patterns.

Publication trends reveal a trajectory from computational sports analytics (2022) to high-impact public health research, with recent work centering on malaria burden estimation (2025) and pandemic response optimization (2023) using geospatial and mobility data.

Key recognitions include:

• Forrest Research Scholarship
• Research Training Program Stipend
• Ernest & Evelyn Havill Shacklock HDR Top-Up Scholarship

Funded by competitive research grants, he contributed as a 2024 Research Assistant at the Malaria Atlas Project but has no advisees. His work directly supports UN Sustainable Development Goals for health and wellbeing.

Embedded in The Kids Research Institute's Global Disease Modelling team, he collaborates on computational tools for malaria elimination and epidemic preparedness across resource-limited settings.