Staff Profile

Background

I'm a full-stack software developer with a Master's in Computer Science and over 2 years of experience developing software for financial compliance. At the Innovation Observatory, I enjoy applying my skills to the healthcare research domain, gathering a large amount of data and making it easy for our research staff to use.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining the data pipeline of our OpenScan medical research search engine
• Collecting, processing and transforming health data from a wide range of sources
• User interface development with latest tools
• Enterprise searching and database management
• Testing AI models such as Natural Language Processing to filter important clinical text data

About the NIHR Innovation Observatory

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The NIHR Innovation Observatory is a world leading health and care innovation scanning centre providing data-driven insights to foster innovation and equitable access to high quality care. We aim to transform health systems and improve population health by providing advanced data-driven insights that foster innovation and equitable access to high quality care. At the core of our work, is the development of data-driven methods to identify, capture, and synthesize intelligence on new health innovations. We develop and share cutting edge methods in horizon scanning, building capacity in the systems across the public, voluntary and industry sectors.

We deliver essential intelligence and insights about medicines and MedTech innovation to the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and NHS England (NHSE), as well as the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the NIHR, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), DHSC and industry - allowing these organisations to prepare for policies, regulation and frontline delivery for new, emerging and disruptive technologies.