Alex Cook

Associate Professor, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore

Dr Alex Cook is an Associate Professor in the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health (SSHSPH) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he is also the Vice Dean (Research). He works on infectious disease modelling and statistics, including dengue, influenza and other respiratory pathogens, and on population modelling to assess the effect of evolving demographics on non-communicable diseases such as diabetes. His multidisciplinary team brings together researchers from the fields of statistics, computational biology, computer engineering, mathematics, geography and environmental sciences.

Research by the Cook lab is often in close collaboration with government agencies. Examples of the contribution of his work to national policy making include:

–      His team’s projections of the future burden of diabetes in Singapore was cited in the Committee of Supply as the Minister of Health declared ‘war’ on diabetes;

–      His team’s evaluation of the impact of school closure on hand, foot and mouth disease transmission support’s the government’s relaxation of the policy;

–      His close collaboration with the National Environment Agency has led to the development of a realtime dengue forecasting algorithm that is routinely used as part of Singapore’s vector control programme.

During the COVID-19 pandemic he has been working closely with Singapore’s MOH on analytics for the outbreak.

Alec Morton

Professor, University of Strathclyde

Head of Department, Management Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Prof Alec’s main interests are in decision analysis and health economics. He is on the Editorial Board of Decision Analysis and is an Associate Editor for the EURO Journal on Decision Processes, the Transactions of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and OR Spectrum. His papers have won awards from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research and the Society for Risk Analysis. His book Portfolio Decision Analysis with Jeff Keisler and Ahti Salo won the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society publication award in 2013 and his paper “CUT: A Multicriteria Approach for Concavifiable Preferences” (with Nikos Argyris and Jose Figueira) was a finalist for the same prize in 2016.

Alec Morton

Professor, University of Strathclyde

Head of Department, Management Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Prof Alec’s main interests are in decision analysis and health economics. He is on the Editorial Board of Decision Analysis and is an Associate Editor for the EURO Journal on Decision Processes, the Transactions of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and OR Spectrum. His papers have won awards from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research and the Society for Risk Analysis. His book Portfolio Decision Analysis with Jeff Keisler and Ahti Salo won the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society publication award in 2013 and his paper “CUT: A Multicriteria Approach for Concavifiable Preferences” (with Nikos Argyris and Jose Figueira) was a finalist for the same prize in 2016.

Alec Morton

Professor, University of Strathclyde

Head of Department, Management Science, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Prof Alec’s main interests are in decision analysis and health economics. He is on the Editorial Board of Decision Analysis and is an Associate Editor for the EURO Journal on Decision Processes, the Transactions of the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and OR Spectrum. His papers have won awards from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research and the Society for Risk Analysis. His book Portfolio Decision Analysis with Jeff Keisler and Ahti Salo won the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society publication award in 2013 and his paper “CUT: A Multicriteria Approach for Concavifiable Preferences” (with Nikos Argyris and Jose Figueira) was a finalist for the same prize in 2016.

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