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Team

OpenSAFELY is a collaboration between the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford, the EHR group at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, TPP, EMIS and other electronic health record software companies (who already manage NHS patients’ records), working on behalf of NHS England and NHSX, with a growing list of broader collaborations including ICNARC.

We are a well-established team of software developers, clinicians, and epidemiologists, all pooling diverse skills and knowledge to deliver high performance, highly secure and accurate health data analytics, using modern open software development techniques. The project is led by two NHS doctors, Ben Goldacre and Liam Smeeth, with lead software developer Seb Bacon. We have delivered because of our mixed skillset: we have software developers, and “developer-epidemiologists”, who can speak the same language as the technical teams within EHR system suppliers.

  • Ben Goldacre: Director, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, University of Oxford (joint principal investigator)
  • Liam Smeeth: Professor, LSHTM (joint principal investigator)
  • Seb Bacon: Chief Technical Officer, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, University of Oxford

Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

  • Alex Walker — Director of Research
  • Alice Wong — Junior Developer
  • Amir Mehrkar — Director of Information Governance and External Relations
  • Andrea Schaffer — Epidemiologist
  • Andrew Brown — Clinical informatician
  • Arina Tamborska — Epidemiologist
  • Becky Smith — Senior Developer
  • Ben Butler-Cole — Director of Engineering
  • Brian MacKenna — Director of NHS Service Analytics
  • Caroline Walters — Head of Service Implementation
  • Catherine Stables — Lead Product Manager
  • Chris Wood — Clinical informatician (Pharmacist)
  • Colm Andrews — Data Scientist
  • Dave Evans — Staff Developer
  • Eli Holderness — Research Software Advocate
  • Frederica Longfoot — PPIE Lead
  • Giles Turnbull — Director of Communication (interim)
  • Helen Curtis — Researcher
  • Hilary Winstanly — Events Coordinator
  • Iain Dillingham — Senior Developer
  • Jaidip Gill — Health Data Scientist
  • Jon Massey — Junior Developer
  • Juliet Underdown — Information Governance Manager
  • Katie Bickford — Junior Developer
  • Klaudia Budniak — Senior Programme Manager
  • Liam Hart — Research Administrator
  • Lizzie Rafii-Tabar — Senior Programme Manager
  • Louis Fisher — Data Scientist
  • Lucy Bridges — Tech Lead
  • Martina Pesce — Epidemiologist
  • Mary Yip — Product Manager
  • Milan Wiedemann — Data Scientist
  • Millie Green — Data Scientist
  • Nick DeVito — Researcher
  • Orla Macdonald — Research Pharmacist
  • Pete Stokes — Director of Platform Development
  • Peter Inglesby — Tech Lead
  • Richard Croker — Honorary Research Fellow
  • Richard Williams — Senior Developer
  • Rose Higgins — Health Data Scientist & NICE Collaboration Lead
  • Simon Davy — Senior Developer
  • Steve Maude — Senior Developer
  • Thomas O'Dwyer — Senior Developer
  • Tom Ward — Senior Developer
  • Vicky Speed — Clinical informatician
  • Viveck Kingsley — Health Data Scientist
  • Will Hulme — Statistical epidemiologist
  • Yamina Boukari — Research Fellow

    • EHR LSHTM

    HDRUK

    ICNARC

    • David Harrison — Head Statistician

    LSHTM

    TPP

    University of Oxford