Alex Walker
Director Of Research at Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Walker is Director of Research at the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science, University of Oxford, with nine years of postdoctoral research experience focused on large-database epidemiology. He specialises in database linkage, risk stratification, prognosis modelling and novel computational methods, and contributes to high-impact open projects such as OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing. His work bridges rigorous epidemiological training (PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health) with practical, reproducible analytics applied at national scale. Based in Oxford, he combines academic leadership with hands-on methodological development that enables transparent, policy-relevant health research.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Epidemiology and Public Health, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Epidemiology and Public Health at University of Nottingham
English
Github Skills (46)
million10
health9
dummy-data9
api8
rates8
databases7
rest7
django-rest-framework7
command-line-interface7
django7
rest-api7
jupyter-notebook6
cli6
quality-assurance6
python6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
opensafely/long-covid
Jan 2021 - Oct 2021
Clinical coding of long COVID in English primary care
Contributions:5 reviews, 159 commits, 26 PRs in 8 months
englishcarelongclinical
opensafely-core/matching
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Matches cases to controls for studies
Contributions:2 reviews, 58 commits, 7 PRs in 6 months
casesmatchesanalysisquality-assurance
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