The UK government’s ‘Data saves lives’ vision is to drive improvements in health and social care through digital technologies by effectively collating, processing, and analysing health information for precision medicine, population health and research. This must be guided by real-world evidence and patient/public involvement and develop digital technologies that are safe and solve patient safety challenges (Digital Clinical Safety Strategy-NHSX-2021).
The Digital Health Theme builds on established strengths in convergence science, clinical informatics and artificial intelligence (AI) across Imperial, including expertise in the Imperial Clinical Trials Unit, Data Science Institute (cross-College hub for data-driven research/education). This theme will work in partnership with NIHR Health Informatics Collaborative (HIC; 29 NHS Trusts working to facilitate research through healthcare data), the North-West London (NWL) Integrated Care System (ICS; an NHS collaboration to reduce inequalities, improve outcomes and quality of life), industry and the public. With >£20M investment from NIHR, MRC, Wellcome and the Imperial-X “Human and Machine Learning”, offering a co-located, collaborative environment for research, education and entrepreneurship across data science, digital technologies and AI.
Key Individuals
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Mr Erik Mayer
Clinical Senior Lecturer -
Professor Paul Aylin
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health -
Ben Glampson
Research Informatics Programme Manager -
Dr Aldo Faisal
Senior Lecturer in Neurotechnology -
Dr Anna Hansell
Reader in Environmental Epidemiology -
Dr Ceire Costelloe
Director of Global Digital Health Unit -
Dr Evangelos Evangelou
Senior Lecturer -
Dr Mireille Toledano
Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology -
Dr Sarah Butcher
Head of Bioinformatics Support Service -
Mr Andrew Heard
Database Manager -
Professor Azeem Majeed
Professor of Primary Care -
Professor Brendan Delaney
Chair in Medical Informatics and Decision Making -
Professor Christopher Millett
Professor of Public Health -
Professor Elio Riboli
Director, School of Public Health -
Professor Gerry Thomas
Chair in Molecular Pathology & Director of Imperial Tissue Bank -
Professor Jaspal Kooner
Professor of Clinical Cardiology -
Professor John Chambers
Professor of Cardiovascular Epidemiology -
Professor Majid Ezzati
Chair in Global Environmental Health -
Professor Mauricio Barahona
Chair in Biomathematics -
Professor Paul Elliott
Theme Lead, Informatics & Biobanking -
Professor Paulo Vineis
Chair in Environmental Epidemiology -
Professor Robert Glen
Chair in Computational Medicine
