Our work on identifying highly influential travellers for spreading diseases, such as COVID-19, on a public transport networks has been covered by the Australian Associated Press, and has been picked up by many news outlets including the ABC News TV Channel, ABC National Radio, Channel 7 news, Medicalxpress, Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and tekk.tv. This work is also featured on the Queensland Government’s COVID-19 research web page. The paper has been accepted at IEEE WoWMoM 2020, and is available on arXiv.