The team quickly developed computer models to estimate Covid-19 spread and informed policies to control it. A team of researchers from the Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics has been awarded the Jay Wright Forrester Award for the best contribution to system dynamics over the last five years. The team received the honour for their work on identifying policies to control the spread of the Covid-19 virus. Prof Jim Duggan, Prof Brendan Murphy, Prof James P Gleeson and Prof Cathal Walsh co-authored the paper alongside Dr Jair Andrade, Prof Cathal Walsh and Prof Philip Nolan. It also demonstrated how system dynamics, a tech-aided approach for public safety responses, could be applied to control Covid.