Alex Walker
Director Of Research at EBM DataLab University of Oxford
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 (33)
health9
database8
command-line-interface8
databases8
django-rest-framework7
django7
rest-api6
jupyter-notebook6
api6
rest6
quality-assurance6
python6
examine5
outliers5
relationship5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ebmdatalab/opioids-change-detection-notebook
Jan 2020 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
opensafely-actions/matching
Nov 2020 - May 2021
Match cases to controls
Contributions:2 reviews, 58 commits, 7 PRs in 6 months
casesmatchesanalysisquality-assurancecohort-extractor
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