Announcing the winners of HDR UK's annual awards 2020
Health Data Research UK is delighted to announce the winners of its three new annual prizes launched this year, which were awarded on Tuesday 16 June at HDR UK’s annual conference
Team of the Year Award
Team working is core to HDR UK’s mission. This award celebrates collaborative endeavours by groups of researchers, innovators, technologists etc working together within the HDR UK. Members of the HDR UK community were able to nominate a team or propose their own for HDR UK Team of the Year.
Overall winner:
- The HDR UK Sprint Exemplar Project in Rare Diseases Team – led by John Bradley, Cambridge University Hospitals & Gut Reaction, The Health Data Research Hub for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Read more here on why the committee chose this team to win.
Additional COVID-19 themed winner:
- The HDR UK London COVID-19 Response Team led by Amitava Banerjee
Highly commended:
- The HDR UK National Text Analytics Project Team (team representative: Rebecca Bendayan, KCL, HDR UK London). Read more here on why they were shortlisted.
- The HDR UK Early Career Committee (team representative: Ruth Blackburn, UCL, HDR UK London). Read more here on why they were shortlisted.
Find out more about this prize and view the selection committee here.
Impact of the Year Award
HDR UK aims to unite the UK’s health data to enable discoveries that improve people’s lives. This award was open to pieces of work that had contributed to this goal, including clinical practice or policy, algorithms, software, publications and more.
Winner:
- Model that estimates excess deaths from COVID-19 (team lead: Amitava Banerjee, UCL, HDR UK London
Highly commended:
- Model that estimates excess deaths from cancer during COVID (team representative: Mark Lawler, QUB, HDR UK Wales & NI)
- Modelling non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 (team representative: Rosalind Eggo, LSHTM, HDR UK London)
Find out more about this prize and view the selection committee here.
Early Career Lightning Talk Award
Selected early career researchers, technologists and innovators from the HDR UK community presented their work with health data as a 3-minute lightning talk at the HDR UK annual conference. Attendees voted live for the most impactful presentation.
Winner:
- Alvina Lai, UCL, HDR UK London: Real-time hospital cancer data, excess deaths and a questions for the Prime Minister
Runners up:
- Claire Niedzwiedz, University of Glasgow, HDR UK Scotland: Ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 infection
- Joram Posma, Imperial College London, HDR UK London: Monitoring diet more accurately to aid healthy living in a post-COVID society
Find out more about this prize, the shortlisted and highly commended applications, as well as view the selection committee here.
