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Alex Walker
Researcher
Large database epidemiology
I am a non-clinical epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, with a particular interest in database linkage, time course analysis, risk stratification, prognosis modelling and novel computational methods in epidemiology.
I work in EBM DataLab in Oxford, on the OpenPrescribing project, and am currently working on methods of change detection and developing composite prescribing measures amongst other things
Before coming to Oxford I was a Senior Research Fellow at The University of Nottingham, where I worked on a variety of projects relating to several disease areas, including; hepatitis C, cancer and venous thromboembolism. My work to date has mostly focused on using routinely collected data –data sources such as the CPRD, HES and ONS data– to answer pragmatic and clinically relevant questions. I completed my PhD in the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health at Nottingham, which involved pharmacoepidemiology, commonly prescribed drugs and cancer. Before that I completed a MSc in Oncology and a BSc in Biochemistry and Genetics.
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Key publications
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Walker AJ. et al, (2019), The BMJ, 367
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Curtis HJ. et al, (2019), The Lancet Psychiatry, 6, 140 - 150
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Walker AJ. et al, (2019), Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 74, 1133 - 1136
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Curtis HJ. et al, (2019), Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 74, 242 - 250
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Walker AJ. et al, (2018), BMJ Open, 8
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Walker AJ. et al, (2018), Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 111, 167 - 174
Recent publications
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Walker AJ. et al, (2021), The Lancet Psychiatry, 8, 278 - 279
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Curtis HJ. et al, (2021), Family Practice
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Forbes H. et al, (2021), The BMJ, 372
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Williamson EJ. et al, (2021)
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Grint DJ. et al, (2021), Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin, 26