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  5. HDR UK-Turing Wellcome PhD Programme in Health Data Science

Meet our PhD students

Our PhD students come from a wide range of backgrounds - discover who they are and what their experiences have been as part of the PhD programme

2024 cohort

Ishana Atkinson PhD Student
Becky Gordon PhD Student
Estelle McCool
Estelle McCool DPhil student in Health Data Science
Maureen Ng’etich PhD Student
Matilda Pitt PhD Student

2023 cohort

Chantelle Cornett PhD Student
Zhengmao Li PhD Student
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Qiyu Wang  PhD Student
Hanane Issa PhD Student
Ashley Dickson PhD Student

2022 cohort

Aashna Uppal PhD Student
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Antony Lee PhD Student
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Chriselda Oliver PhD Student
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Jianqiao Mao PhD Student
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Junyi Gao PhD Student
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Rob Fletcher PhD Student
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Vanessa Rodriguez PhD Student

2021 cohort

Jose Benitez-Aurioles PhD Student
Louis Chislett PhD Student
Natalia Hong PhD Student
Xiyun Jiang PhD Student
Saadiyah Mayet PhD Student
Breeshey Roskams-Hieter Post Doctoral Researcher
Paula Siemek PhD Student
Steven Wambua Research Fellow
Jude Wells PhD Student

2020 cohort

Emma Whitfield Research Fellow
David Brind PhD Student
Claire Coffey PhD Student
Eloise Withnell Applied Machine Learning Researcher
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Haoting Zhang Research Associate
Fabian Falck PhD Student
Tianxiao Wang PhD Student

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