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🚨 Funded PhD opportunity 🚨 Work with large-scale electronic health record data from #OpenSAFELY to optimise vaccine effectiveness estimation for respiratory viruses.
Apply here 👉findaphd.com/phds/project/op…
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Our multi-population GWAS paper on Afib is online now @NatureComms
We identified more genetic loci, population-specific genetic correlations, improved polygenic risk score, and enhanced risk prediction by integrating a PRS and protein score.
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
Supervised by:
🔹@venexia
🔹@jonathanasterne
🔹@wjchulme
🔹Ed Parker
Ideal for candidates with a strong interest in statistics, epidemiology, and real-world impact. 📈🌍
✨NEW ✨ BMJ Research Methods & Reporting article on reading and conducting instrumental variable studies. Thanks to Eleanor Sanderson, @MGLevin, @damrauer, @Tfeend, and @nm_davies.
doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-078…
GW4 PhD opportunity 'Causal inference tools to study vaccines using real-world data: how can we make better use of negative control outcomes?' with Helen McDonald, Anita McGrogan and me. More details here: gw4biomed.ac.uk/causal-infer…
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Incidence of mental illnesses was elevated for up to a year following severe COVID-19 in unvaccinated people. These findings suggest that vaccination may mitigate the adverse effects of COVID-19 on mental health. ja.ma/3WMP6jq
Pleased to share our paper on COVID-19 and mental illnesses in vaccinated and unvaccinated people using @OpenSAFELY 😀
📢New paper in @JAMAPsych
Incidence of mental illnesses in unvaccinated people increased for up to one year after severe COVID-19. Findings suggest vaccination may mitigate effects of the disease on #MentalHealth
News tinyurl.com/24aaejz2
Paper tinyurl.com/3jjrafce
ALT Glass phials with COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine are lined up above a line of syringes
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On the reduction of heart attacks, strokes and other clotting events with Covid vaccination among ~46 million people
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
@NatureComms @venexia
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Fab to work with @KurtSci1994 @venexia @jonathanasterne Nish Chaturvedi @MRCLHA Rachel Denholm & others @OpenSAFELY showing post-covid T2DM less likely after vaccination sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Great to have the Uganda Hub for this year's 6th Mendelian Randomisation Conference holding in Bristol
Excited that our team is selected for 3 oral talks - 2 in-person and 1 online from the hub.
It is going to be a great conference!
As the 6th Mendelian randomization Conference starts in sunny Bristol below is from the first MR conference in 2005 at Mendel’s monastery in Brno with co-chair @Lyonpaul and Shah Ebrahim, @nic_timpson @ProfSarahLewis Ezra Susser @timfrayling @rogerha Rodolfo Saracci and Mendel
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The 17th Kolokotrones Symposium, "UK Secure Data Environments: A New Approach to Population-Scale Real World Evidence,” was a success!
Thanks to our speakers for providing valuable insight into the British data model.
Presentations now live on YouTube:
youtu.be/OkK57xqPOoI?si=786C…
ALT Symposium speakers in front of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
ALT Jonathan Sterne moderates the symposium
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Wrapping up our morning sessions is @venexia, Epidemiologist at @BristolUni & UPenn sharing with us how #causalinference is used in #UK electronic health records and opportunities available for open science.
#KolokotronesSymposium @CAUSALab
Excited to be off to @CAUSALab Boston in a couple of weeks to discuss open science and causal inference in UK electronic health records.
Registration for the 17th #KolokotronesSymposium is open!
In collaboration with UK researchers, we are exploring the English approach to medicine data & electronic health records from the lens of #causalinference.
Register now: eventbrite.com/e/causal-infe… #publichealth #causalab
ALT 17th Kolokotrones Symposium - UK Secure Data Environments: A New Approach to Population-Scale Real World Evidence
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Major depressive disorder impacts peripheral artery disease risk through intermediary risk factors ft. Gabrielle Shakt, @tsao_noah, @venexia, @damrauer (@PennSurgery), @MGLevin (@PennCardiology), @RachelKember (@PennPsych) & @bvoight28 (@PennSysPharmATT) tinyurl.com/3x4w4yke
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New preprint with the alternative title "What I wish I had known about delay distribution estimation in January 2020"
samabbott.co.uk/posts/2024-0…
Pleased to share our latest @opensafely study on the impact of COVID-19 on mental illness. @COVID19_LHW @pravpatalay @jonathanasterne
Impact of COVID-19 on mental illness in vaccinated and unvaccinated people: a population-based cohort study in OpenSAFELY medrxiv.org/cgi/content/shor… #medRxiv
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I had the privilege of speaking at #ADRUKConf23. My talk was on optimising large-scale analytics in NHS SDE. Greatful for the engaging discussions and the connection with brilliant fellow researchers
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It was a pleasure supervising Femi for his internship! In only 8 weeks he got to grips with @OpenSAFELY, addressed a policy-relevant question on COVID-19 vaccine uptake, developed his R skills and confidently presented his results. I'm sure he has a bright future ahead✨
"The opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my #internship"
Read more about Femi's experience of the @HDR_UK #DataScience internship he completed with us!
Blog post tinyurl.com/yr4vsz4r
ALT Femi is looking into the camera
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A benefit of vaccination not previously documented:
"For the first time in a general-population dataset [in > 15 million people], we demonstrate that COVID-19 vaccination reduces, but does not entirely ameliorate, excess diabetes incidence after COVID-19"
medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
