Epidemiologist / Health Data Scientist on OpenSAFELY in the Bennett Institute

University of Oxford
Oxford
2 months ago
Applications closed

Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford We are recruiting a new epidemiologist, statistician or health data scientist. You will primarily be working on OpenSAFELY, the national analytics platform that was created during COVID-19 by our team in wide collaboration. OpenSAFELY is a highly secure, modular, open-source data analysis platform, combining best practice from both academia and the open-source software community. It is deployed across the full electronic health records of 55 million patients in England. There are several ongoing research projects within the Bennett Institute using OpenSAFELY that you might contribute to, including:

NIHR-funded research to evaluate the effectiveness of vaccines for respiratory viruses


Wellcome supported NHS Talking Therapies research
NIHR-funded Winter pressures and service delivery planning
NHS England’s Primary Care and Medicines Analytics Unit You will join our research team delivering research outputs across a wide range of academic and operational research questions in medicine. However, this is not just a conventional researcher post. Alongside delivering high impact research outputs, you will also be helping to lead a new way of delivering health data science. You will contribute to our open science community-building work, our codebase, our open teaching resources, or our policy work. You will be formally based in the Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG as your normal place of work, but you will be able to agree a pattern of regular remote working with your line manager. This is a full‑time position; however, part‑time working (minimum 0.6 FTE) will also be considered. The post is funded for three years in the first instance. “Committed to equality and valuing diversity”

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