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'My goal is to make a meaningful impact': How Neha plans to make a difference in mental health
Neha Gogawale is hoping to make a positive impact to people's mental health after completing a Master's in Health Data Science.
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Cost-of-living/cost of smoking research presented at Prevention Research 2023 Conference
Members of the COLCOS study team Lucia D'Ambruoso, Eilidh Cowan and Sheila Duffy attended the Prevention Research 2023 Conference in Edinburgh 14 & 15 November The conference was hosted by the Community of Practice of the UK Prevention Research Partnership and showcased noncommunicable disease (NCD) prevention research in the UK. It was a unique opportunity...
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Networked Data Lab talks at the Health and Care Analytics (HACA) Conference now available to watch!
The inaugural HACA Conference was in July 2023 and the presentations from the conference are now available to watch on the official HACA YouTube channel. Jess Butler, who leads the Networked Data Lab (NDL) team in Grampian, presented our data linkage reseach and you can follow this link to watch Jess's talk: Children's mental health care:...
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ACHDS Away Day 2023
We have just had a brilliant 2-day team away day! On Thursday this week 27 of the team were able to get together in person at the beautiful new Opportunity North East BioHub. What a great space! The purpose of the day was really to get as many of us together out...
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Elizabeth Russell Prize for Public Health Research
Congratulations to Liam Lennox, a 5th year medical student, who was awarded the Elizabeth Russell Prize for Public Health Research for his Master of Public Health (MPH) project evaluating the impact of hospital transfer on standard attainment and outcomes in hip fracture patients.
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Equi-injury project partners workshop in Kigali
Dr Lucia d'Ambruoso contributed to a partners workshop for the NIHR Equi-Injury project in Kigali, Rwanda. The workshop was reported in the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) October Newsletter.
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Insper visitors at ACHDS
This week we had the real pleasure of welcoming Professor André Filipe de M. Batista,Technical Coordinator of the Data Science Centre at Insper in São Paulo Brasil, to the Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science. During the two-day visit André and his two colleagues, Luciana de Paula Arjona and Suelane Garcia Fontes, presented...
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DaSH awarded funding to improve transparency in health data access for research
The Grampian Data Safe Haven (DaSH) team were awarded a grant from Health Data Research UK to improve transparency in health data access processes for research. DaSH will deliver a new website that will improve information for researchers and the public with this funding.
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Interdisciplinary Open Sessions Day
The Aberdeen Centre for Health Data Science is an interdisciplinary group of researchers with a range of backgrounds such as health sciences, medicine, sociology, engineering, and computing. Even this diverse group doesn’t often get the chance to attend talks on food anthropology, or art history and glaciology. At the “Interdisciplinary Open...
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'Cost of Living, Cost of Smoking' Research in the media
The ‘Cost of Living, Cost of Smoking: Community Intelligence for Public Health’ research project led by Dr Lucia D'ambruoso, funded by ASH Scotland and facilitated by Turning Point Scotland hit the headlines this week. The Press and Journal spoke to Avril Bruce, who took part in the ‘Cost of Living, Cost...