Jason Thompson is a Senior Research Fellow within the University of Melbourne's Transport, Health and Urban Design Research Hub and a current Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow. Dr Thompson's work is focused on transportation safety, public health, post-injury rehabilitation, and health system design. In 2020, he led pandemic modelling underpinning the Victorian State Government's RoadMap for escaping from its second wave of COVID-19 infections. He holds a Ph.D. in medicine, master's degrees in clinical psychology, and a Bachelor of Science with Honours.