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Exciting news! 🙌On 12-13th Feb UCL Computer Science are hosting the 2-day 2024 FHIRWorks Hackathon in collaboration with GOSH and Roche to address real world healthcare challenges! 🖥️🏥 If you are a UCL Comp Sci student or NHS Staff, find out more and sign up here👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-fhirwork…

Case study selected by the HDR UK Impact Committee ⭐ Led by Prof Tjeerd van Staa, this research linking GP and hospital data reveals how common drug side effects are in the elderly and the need for better risk vs benefit info on medicines. Read more 👇 hubs.li/Q02kw0xk0

Don't let the causal inference buzz fool you: Description is the foundation of science. We've described the 3-year health impact of #COVID19 in Madrid, the EU region with the highest life expectancy. If we can't describe, no #causalinference can follow. academic.oup.com/ofid/article/1…

Our next RADIANCE course is Target Trial Emulation! 🗓️ 22-24 April 2024 ⏰ 10.00am – 13.00pm 💻 Live online lectures and computer practical sessions Get a head start and book your place today ⬇️ radiance.org.uk/courses/target… #eLearning #DataScience #SocialSci

Inappropriate statistical adjustment can obscure ethnic & gender disparities. On 4th March @ 3pm GMT, @JPinaSanchez will discuss how this problem distorts the evidence on ethnic & gender disparities in sentencing. Sign up: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #CausalTwitter cc Kareem Carr, Statistics Person

In 331 ICU patients ≥65y after cardiac surgery, overnight administration of dexmedetomidine vs placebo did not prevent incidence of post-operative delirium. RCT ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Dr Lola Solebo 💙👶🏾👁️👩🏾‍💻 introducing a two-day course on Research Changes life, organised by Prof Jugnoo Rahi 💙 and Lola at the Royal College of Ophthalmologists

🚨 Just four weeks to go until our Target Trial Emulation RADIANCE course! 🗓️ 22-24 April ⏰ 10:00 - 13:00 Includes live online lectures and practical sessions led by our UCL lecturers. Secure your space today ⬇️ tinyurl.com/yc7jmptj #elearning #DataScience #Epitwitter

Our colleague Katie Harron Katie Harron will be running the London Marathon on 21st April for Tommy’s charity for preterm birth and baby loss. You can sponsor her here: 2024tcslondonmarathon.enthuse.com/pf/katie-harro…

The review of the #NHS Constitution includes a question on health data in research. We are gathering the views of our Members to submit a collective response. #useMydata #transparency #patientdata

🆘REMINDER: While goods are allowed into southern #Gaza under severe Israeli restrictions, the northern parts of Gaza are facing yet another starvation catastrophe as Israel continues to ban aid into the city & its north. There isn't much time left until we lose more infants!

Exciting ICING seminar coming up next week Population, Policy and Practice Department @SusithaWanigar will give a talk on understanding immigration as a social determinant of health using linked health and immigration data in Canada 25th June 2024, 3-4pm on Teams DM for link to the event

Julian is free!!!! Words cannot express our immense gratitude to YOU- yes YOU, who have all mobilised for years and years to make this come true. THANK YOU. tHANK YOU. THANK YOU. Follow @WikiLeaks for more info soon…

Want to improve your #statistics and #datascience skills in 2024? Earlier this year RADIANCE launched intermediate courses on demand. Check out our website below: radiance.org.uk/modules/ #eLearning #EpiTwitter #socialsciences

New paper: proposed a framework for researcher-data owners to develop & evaluate linkage strategies. Important first step to think about biases in your linked data. Thanks ALSPAC participants! Read lay summary here: Katie Harron andy boyd Robin Linacre Population, Policy and Practice Department

The winner of our 2024 Award for Excellence in Early-Career Writing presented by Significance and YSS is Joseph Lam for his entry ‘Terminating bias: how Arnold Schwarzenegger helped us understand linkage errors and biases’ #RSSAwards significancemagazine.com/2024-writing-c…

If the sight of human beings burning alive won’t stop the UK government supplying arms to Israel, what will?

PhD studentship opportunity at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health supervised by Ofran, Mario Cortina Borja🇪🇺 and me, on #cysticfibrosis, #healthinequalities and #treatmenteffects. Deadline 13 Dec 9am. ucl.ac.uk/child-health/s…