Benjamin Cairns
Director Of Science And Biostatistics
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBenjamin Cairns is Director of Science and Biostatistics at Our Future Health, leading statistical strategy for the UK’s largest-ever population health programme to accelerate disease detection, prevention and treatment. With over a decade of research and leadership at the University of Oxford, he combines rigorous mathematical training (PhD) with deep expertise in cardiovascular epidemiology, multimorbidity and large-cohort methodology. He has steered genetic and vascular disease studies, including work in the Million Women Study and a BHF-funded transition fellowship, translating complex biostatistics into actionable study design and policy-relevant insights. Comfortable at the interface of academia and large-scale applied research, he pairs theoretical breadth with hands-on programme building across teams and disciplines. An unusual mix of philosophy and mathematics in his background gives him a distinctive systems-level perspective on study design and inference.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Mathematics at The University of Queensland
Github Skills (23)
cgi9
file-operations9
filesystem7
database6
libuv6
r-package6
r6
shiny4
linux4
python3
rmarkdown3
fat3
cross-platform2
xmake2
markdown2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bjcairns/ukbschemas
Mar 2019 - Feb 2021
Use R to generate a database containing the UK Biobank data schemas from http://biobank.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/crystal/schema.cgi
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 108 commits in 1 year 11 months
uk-biobankcrystalcgidatabaseschemas
bjcairns/rstudio-cheatsheets
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
cheat-sheetsrstudiorubysheets
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