Research groups
Cecilia Okusi
Data Scientist & SQL Developer
My work is focussed on respiratory disease surveillance in England, and I primarily support the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) with respiratory and communicable disease reports that are distributed twice weekly. I am also responsible for dashboard development in the team, including a dashboard to monitor circulating viruses in the community which is published on the government website. I have provided a list of below dashboards and observatories that I am the technical author by using the data visualisation software to produce:
- MONITORY Dashboard
- UKHSA Virology Dashboard
- Virology Dashboard
- Virology Observatory
- COVID-19 Dashboard
- Serology Observatory
- Serology Dashboard
- Atrial Fibrillation Observatory
- Social Prescribing Observatory
- Social Prescribing Map
- Social Prescribing Dashboard
- Social Needs Observatory
- Social Needs Dashboard
- Non-Medical Interventions Observatory
- Non-Medical Interventions Dashboard
- PRINCIPLE Trial Observatory
- PRINCIPLE Trial Dashboard
I also provide data-cuts from the Oxford-Royal College of General Practitioners Clinical Informatics Digital Hub (ORCHID) for statistical analysis. I have played my part in COVID-19 pandemic research and more recently I am enlisted as a dissertation project tutor in the MSc in Applied Digital Health. I have a BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and Master’s in Translational Clinical Science from University College London. I have previously worked as a Statistician, and I began my career in health data management and analysis in 2012.
Recent publications
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Deploying an asthma dashboard to support quality improvement across a nationally representative sentinel network of 7.6 million people in England
Journal article
Mukherjee M. et al, (2024), npj Primary Care Respiratory Medicine, 34
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Validation of an acute respiratory infection phenotyping algorithm to support robust computerised medical record-based respiratory sentinel surveillance, England, 2023.
Journal article
Elson WH. et al, (2024), Euro Surveill, 29
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Modifiable risk factors for asthma exacerbations during the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based repeated cross-sectional study using the Research and Surveillance Centre primary care database
Journal article
Mukherjee M. et al, (2024), The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 42
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End of 2022/23 Season Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness in Primary Care in Great Britain
Journal article
Whitaker H. et al, (2024), Influenza and other Respiratory Viruses, 18
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Diagnostic accuracy of a point-of-care antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 and influenza in a primary care population (RAPTOR-C19)
Journal article
Fanshawe TR. et al, (2024), Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 30, 380 - 386