Te matatini o te hōrapa: a population based contagion network for Aotearoa NZ, is a Health Research Council-funded project in response to Covid-19 led by Dr Dion O’Neale (Department of Physics, University of Auckland) and Dr Emily Harvey (Senior Researcher, Market Economics). They are joined by the Deputy Director of the Healthier Lives National Science Challenge, Andrew Sporle (Ngāti Apa, Rangitane, Te Rarawa), Dr Steven Turnbull (Research Fellow, Auckland University) and freelance science communicator Kylie Stewart. O'Neale, Harvey, and Turnbull are members of the Te Pūnaha Matatini Covid-19 Modeling team.