Overview
HASTE (Enhancing rapid decision-support for emergency animal disease outbreaks) is a national collaboration to strengthen Australia’s preparedness and response to emergency animal disease outbreaks. It does this through engagement, analytics, distribution, and operationalisation.
The project is co-funded by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC), the University of Melbourne, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and the Australian Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. HASTE was created to meet the growing need for rapid, scalable, and interoperable decision-support tools for animal health emergencies.
By building trusted, data-driven models, HASTE gives decision-makers greater ability to manage complex outbreak scenarios with confidence and precision. These decision makers include government authorities and industry peak bodies.
Project Lead: The University of Melbourne
Project Contact: cbaker1@unimelb.edu.au
Project Status: Active
Project date: May 2024 to April 2026
Objective alignment:
- 1 - Improve Australia’s preparedness and ability to respond to emergency animal diseases
Activity alignment:
- 1.2 - Continue to undertake simulation exercises for a variety of EAD scenarios, including identifying and addressing trade ramifications
- 1.4 - Undertake projects, including commissioning and undertaking research, to further develop economic analyses and epidemiological modelling tools supporting rapid decision making in EAD responses for priority diseases
- 1.5 - Implement innovative technologies and training to meet national EAD education and training needs
- 1.6 - Investigate existing systems or trial new systems for national EAD data management in multi-jurisdictional responses
See more
Find out more in:
- the latest HASTE news
- the August 2025 interim report
- the HASTE Work Package 4 report, about the process and outcomes of Work Package 4’s modelling scenario (simulation exercise) workshops.