Epidemiologist / Health Data Scientist on OpenSAFELY in the Bennett Institute

Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford Applications are invited for an epidemiologist, statistician or health data scientist to work in our OpenSAFELY platform, deployed across the full electronic health records of 55 million patients. The successful applicant will be helping to lead a new way of delivering health data science. OpenSAFELY is a highly secure, modular, open source data analysis platform, combining best practice from both academia and the open source software community. The post-holder will have the opportunity to be involved in various platform-related activities, including (but not restricted to):

Innovating processes and tools for statistical disclosure control of outputs released from OpenSAFELY
Developing, maintaining, and documenting reproducible analytic pipelines for evaluating trends and variation in clinical practice
Producing automated data quality checks and data validity reports
Co-piloting external OpenSAFELY users There are also several ongoing research projects within the Bennett Institute using OpenSAFELY. You will have the opportunity to contribute to these projects. 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 The Bennett Institute is a mixed team of clinicians, software developers, policy experts, data scientists, and academic researchers, all pooling skills and knowledge. We have a strong track record of delivering high impact research in Nature, Lancet and BMJ; real-world impact on policy and clinical practice; and high impact services such as OpenSAFELY, OpenPrescribing and TrialsTracker. Our mission is to create a modern, open, collaborative ecosystem for health research. We do this by shipping code, delivering papers, building capacity, and advocating for new ways of working. We aim to lead by example: recurring tasks are turned into packages and libraries; all code is shared openly for review and re-use; analyses are delivered in re-executable notebooks for others to read, evaluate, re-purpose, and learn with. We want to meet outstanding researchers who share this vision and have, or can rapidly develop, the skills needed to deliver it with us. We are particularly interested in researchers who will contribute to our open science community-building work, our codebase, our open teaching resources, or our policy work. You will report to one of our Research team leads. You can read more at and . We are actively seeking to increase our team’s diversity and welcome applications from those in under-represented groups. You will be based in the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Primary Care Building, 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. The position is funded by the Wellcome Trust, for a duration of two years in the first instance. “Committed to equality and valuing diversity”