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 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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COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against hospitalisation and death of people in clinical risk groups during the Delta variant period: English primary care network cohort study
Journal article
Whitaker HJ. et al, (2023), Journal of Infection
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The Impact of Point-of-Care Testing for Influenza on Antimicrobial Stewardship (PIAMS) in UK Primary Care: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study
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Hoang U. et al, (2023), JMIR Research Protocols, 12
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Representativeness, Vaccination Uptake, and COVID-19 Clinical Outcomes 2020-2021 in the UK Oxford-Royal College of General Practitioners Research and Surveillance Network: Cohort Profile Summary
Journal article
Leston M. et al, (2022), JMIR public health and surveillance, 8
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Remote COVID-19 Assessment in Primary Care (RECAP) risk prediction tool: derivation and real-world validation studies
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Espinosa-Gonzalez A. et al, (2022), The Lancet Digital Health, 4, e646 - e656
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Differences in Clinical Presentation With Long COVID After Community and Hospital Infection and Associations With All-Cause Mortality: English Sentinel Network Database Study
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Meza-Torres B. et al, (2022), JMIR public health and surveillance, 8