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Applied Analytics

We use applied analytics for health data research and innovation to directly improve the NHS and help save lives. Our Applied Analytivs scientific priority aims to match expert knowledge of new analytical tools such as machine learning and artificial intelligence with large-scale health datasets to demonstrate the power of these approaches to inform health and care delivery.

About us

Our challenge

Innovators often find it unnecessarily difficult to access health data, whereas the people who are accessing the data, often don’t have the skills or support to innovate.

In cases where this disconnect has been fixed, the arrangements don’t always stream the benefits back into the NHS as much as they should.

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Our approach

We match knowledge of analytical tools such as machine learning and artificial intelligence with large-scale health datasets to show their potential to inform health and care delivery.

We help the right people gain access to the data they need, in a way that protects the data, maintains patient anonymity, and allows innovation.

Watch our Applied Analytics Seminar recordings here

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Meet our team

David Robertson
David Robertson Chair of Applied Logic and HDR UK AI Strategic Advisor
Serena Tricarico Research Manager
Rebecca Lees Research Programme Coordinator
Theodoros Arvanitis Chair of e-Health Innovation and Head of Research, Institute of Digital Healthcare
Aiden Doherty
Aiden Doherty Associate Professor
Georgios Gkoutos
Georgios Gkoutos Chair of Clinical Bioinformatics
Thanasis Tsanas
Thanasis Tsanas Chancellor's Fellow in Data Science
Albert Tenesa
Albert Tenesa Professor of Quantitative Genetics
Emanuele Trucco
Julia Schnabel
Steffen Petersen
Grant Mair
Joanna Wardlaw
Matt Keeling Professor
Sinead Langan
Sinead Langan Professor of Clinical Epidemiology
Danny Alexander Professor of Imaging Sciences at UCL and leader of both the POND group and the Microstructure Imaging Group

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Medical Research Council logo NIHR National Institute for Health Research logo British Heart Foundation logo Cancer Research UK logo Economic and Social Research Council logo Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo Health and Care Research Wales logo Chief Scientist Office logo HSC Public Health Agency Research and Development logo
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