Epidemiologist / Health Data Scientist on OpenSAFELY in the Bennett Institute

Overview

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):Responsibilities

Building tools and dashboards to gain insights from routinely-collected health dataInnovating processes and tools for statistical disclosure control of outputs released from OpenSAFELYDeveloping, maintaining, and documenting reproducible analytic pipelines for evaluating trends and variation in clinical practiceProducing automated data quality checks and data validity reportsCo-piloting external OpenSAFELY usersThere 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 virusesWellcome supported NHS Talking Therapies researchNIHR-funded Winter pressures and service delivery planningNHS England\''s Primary Care and Medicines Analytics UnitEpidemiologist / Health Data Scientist on OpenSAFELY in the Bennett InstituteNuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Primary Care Building, Woodstock Road, Oxford, If you have a specific interest in working in any of these research areas, please indicate this in your cover letter, highlighting any relevant experience. We\''re happy to answer any questions about the projects prior to applying. 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 www.bennett.ox.ac.uk and ..... full job details .....